2022 Year in Exploration
2022 Stats
The site saw a 20% increase in visitors this year to just shy of 200,000 visits. If all those views averaged just two minutes on the site that is 329 days of time spent on exploreCT.org collectively. And, if even 5% of all those visits resulted in just an hour of hiking/paddling/mountain biking that balloons to well over an entire years worth of time exploring the state
Youtube reached exactly 1,000 hours of watch time for the year and 90 new subscribers. This was actually down about 20% from 2021, likely because I only put out 8 new movies
The newsletter added 145 new subscribers and will likely reach 500 later this month at the current rate
I added 64 new locations to the map, though I wish I had some way to quantify total number of edits because I’d ballpark it at least 1,000
Recommended Hikes of the Year
- Backpacking through Nepaug State Forest
- The surprise overlook at Lem Walker (private property)
- The surprise waterfall at Moss Tract
Blog Summaries
- Windham County Complete – Reflections on ‘finishing’ my first 15 towns
- Summer 2022 Questionnaire – Polling the readers for the next big step
- The Hurricane of 1938 – Tracing the path of the Great Hurricane and its influences on state parks and forests
- The History of Forestry in Connecticut – A wandering look from the ice age to archaeological sites to Yale Forestry and the CCC
Hiking
Boating/Fishing
- Halls Pond
- Mattabesett River
Backpacking
- Nepaug State Forest
