Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-31
JAY PEAK.
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heart can stand the strain. A stout
alpenstoc cut from straight and
supple young birch avails we'll here in
swinging up to foot-hold, but some
find it easier to scramble. The ascent
is occasionally made from the west or
Richford side but no trail exists.
The view from the summit is the
most extensive of any in the state and
quite beyond the power of expression.
from Lake Champlain through miles
upon miles of we'll kept Canadian
farms and peat lands until it joins the
silvery ribbon of the st. Lawrence.
The glistening roofs and smoke of
Montreal and the valley of the Ottawa
are visible in clear day. st. Johns
and many smaller towns are seen and
Elephants and big and little Oxford
are the principal Canadian mountains.
Owls Head and Lake Memphremagog
seem to lie at the feet.
Mounts Pisgah and Hor, with Lake
Willoughby in the cash between, then
the eastern spur of the of the Green
mountains and the Presidential range
of the White mountains and Mt. Wash
ington shut off the eastern view, as do
| Cancels Hump and Mt. Mansfield to
the south where the Green Mountain
range diminishes in height to the Hoo
sac mountains and the Berkshire Hills
of Massachusetts.
Nearly all of Lake Champlain and
some of it's islands are visible to the
west, with steamers on the lake. ard
the smoke and glittering roofs of sew
eral far away towns each side of the
lake, while near at hand numerous viii
lagos are plainly seen. The principal
peaks and main outline of the Adiron
dack range are easily visible.
was once on the mountain until
five in the afternoon on a clear Sep
TENDER day and the setting sun irradi-
ated the Adirondacks to soft and love-
ly puppies, while the sun itself seemed
like golden semi-circle many miles
in extent, behind the mountains, and
diffused its beautiful, luminous after
glow to the fleecy cumuli floating in
an intense blue sky slowly the black
waters of Lake Champlain were
changed to grey, to silver, and then
to one broad eXpanse of cleaning
gold from north to south as far as the
eye could reach. 1t was the most
beautiful and spiritual sight on which
! was ever privileged to gaze and
gave new meaning to the words land
beheld new Heaven and a new
earth" and those other words the
streets thereof were of gold, and
from the mountain top it seemed as
if nothing that defiled ever could enter
that radiant country.
It is awe-ins piring to be on the noun
tain in storm, to see a great black
cloud tear through the sky, drenching
square miles with rain, while the wind
sweeps through the forest, tearing up
and breaking big trees, to hear thun-
der so far below it seems beneath the
feet, to watch forked lightning streak
through the air and disappear so near it
seems one could reach out and grasp it
with the hands, and then, with shift
ing winds, see the big, emptied cloud
tighten and float away and leave many
an arching rainbow half a mile below
you.
From mountain we get an enlarged
perspective Of the country. While
! comparisons are odious. to me the
view from jaw Peak far surpasses
that from Mt. Mansfield. 1t is more ex.
tensive and the salient features stand
out in greater clearness. It is in the
, higher. northern part of the Greer
Mountains In which are the passes
which let the Missisquoi, Lamoille
and Winooski rivers through to Lake
: Champlain. Orleans county is geo
graphically different from any other
section of Vermont, containing more
attractively picturesque lakes ano
ponds. Besides the Missisquoi and its
wild. enchanting falls near North Troy
f there are the Barton. Black and Clyde
rivers emptying into Lake Memphre-
magog, famed for its beauty the worle
over. Owls Head rises at the west
with its cleft rocks and ancient beach
365 feet above the lake. Jay Peal
boasts many drift scratches. The won
e derful Willoughby lake with its natur
al pond-walls five or six feet high lies
between Mt. Pisgah. 8. 800 feet high ane
6 $500 feet above the lake, and Mt. For
Several varieties of plants on Mt. Pts
gah are said to be found nowhere els,
south of the Arctic Circle. Crysta
n Lake at Barton, Caspian at Greens
i. boro, and dozens of other ponds a,
beautiful. but smaller are near. Ii
the range of the mountains south ar.
y the historic Hazen's Notch. Mt Nor
ris and Lake Eden. The region abou
lay Peak was the old stamping grounC
i Of the Abenaquis and formerly Indial
j relics were found.
g In climbing Jay Peak heav,
shoes should be worn to protec
the feet from sharp stones ant
!, rubbers are desirable to prevent slip
II ping on the rocks. Ladies requir,