We parked in the trailhead parking at P13 and headed south on the yellow-blazed McKeags Meadow trail, a trail we did some years ago. We continued north when the trail joined the Red Back trail, on which we continued east until we reached the new Hutchinson Trail. The blazes for this new trail are maroon (the same color as the Red Back trail) with a yellow H. It's a beautiful trail, mostly level, which goes straight for long stretches and passes through abundant fern patches. There were also signs that development work continues on the trail, and that another new trail is being built that will run parallel to Hutchinson (north to south) further east (you can see woods roads that will comprise parts of it on the map east of the powerline cut). After crossing the road at the Care Taker parking lot (enough space here for at least twenty cars, despite the map implying that parking is very limited), we continued on overgrown, unblazed woods roads north of the road until we reached the Pine Meadow Connector trail. We took that west to the blue-blazed Sterling Lake Loop trail, crossing Old Forge road, then making a sharp left on the yellow-blazed McKeags Meadow Connector trail. This trail, also quite overgrown, albeit blazed, went back to P13 where we were parked. There are nice views of one of the Laurel Meadow ponds on this last stretch.

You can see our track here. Total distance hiked today was 5.5 miles in 3 hours.