Hanover Country Club Trail and Mountain Running Course
By: Bill Young
Social distancing, no golfers, nature and long views make the Hanover Country Club golf course a lovely training location right now. Who knows if and when the golfers will return? Park on Lyme Road near the Fire House or Rope Ferry Road near the Club House. Stay high since sections of ice and eroded banks make the Girl Brook Circuit sketchy. One long and hilly run will circle up and down the sledding hill section, cross the high trestle bridge, go out past the historic Val de Tempe ski jump, down and up to holes 11 and 12, pause at the medical school cemetery on the high ground and return by similar routes. My guess is 2 miles. Dear Strava addicts- please measure your runs for us. The annual Dartmouth Mirabel Sanchez Memorial XC Invitational follows some of this course. Dee Dee the mother bear and her 3 cubs, a bobcat, fisher cats and a herd of deer call this home. Keep calm and social distance on.