Ice Cream in Purgatory Chasm [Mother's Day Edition]
- Leaders
- Bjorn Poonen (Leader), Margaret Peng (Co-Leader)
- WIMP
- Ashutosh Kumar
- Program
- 3-season hiking
- Type
- Hiking
- Trip date
- Sunday, May 11th
- Difficulty rating
- L2 - Easy
- Prerequisites
- Hiking boots or trail runners
Purgatory Chasm is one of the most unusual geological features in Massachusetts, and it's only 50 minutes from Cambridge! We'll be doing a "Tour de Purgatory Chasm", hiking every trail and visiting every attraction in the park, about 4.5 miles in total, with some scrambling over rocks! Map of Purgatory Chasm
After the hike, we will go to West End Creamery for ice cream and mini golf [optional]! We plan to leave Cambridge around 9 AM on Sun May 11.
We’ll have a short pre-trip meeting on Zoom Thurs May 8th at 9pm.
If you can drive your own car or are willing to drive a rental car, edit the lottery preferences on your MITOC profile to show this.
We will split the cost of transportation (car cost estimated to be $15~$20/person) evenly among all participants and leaders. All expenses at the West End Creamery are separate (see https://www.westendcreamery.com for details).
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 13
- Signups opened at
- May 6, 2025, 8:48 p.m.
- Signups closed at
- May 8, 2025, 10 a.m.
- Notes
- Do you have hiking boots or trail runners?
- What are you most excited about? The chasm, ice cream, or mini golf?