In forested country, mostly on narrow footpaths, the trail here climbs over the January Hills area through oak and white birch, often with an abundant understory of white pine saplings, to emerge at the Roaring Brook Conservation area on Shutesbury Rd. Flood prone Roaring Brook is now safely crossed on the Walter Banfield Memorial Footbridge (AmeriCorps 1999).
The trail has been substantially relocated (2004) in this section onto a very remote, intersting route.
