Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19
A MOUNTAIN TRAIL.
As it Might Be Run From End to End
of Vermont.

of Vermont.
The proposal which has been made
that the mountain and forest lovers of
Vermont open mountain trail from
one end of the state to the other along
the main ridge of the Green mountains
is the most interesting suggestion in
relation to the development of Yer
mont attraction that has been brought
forward this year. Whoever original
ed the plan deserves a rising vote of
thanks. Vermont has a mountain will
derness extending from the south line
of Readsboro and Stamford to the
Canadian border. In fact, from the vi
cinity of Roxbury and Warren there
are two ranges of which the western
is the most elevated and PERCEPTIONS,
but the eastern much longer, extendine
as 1T does through northern New
Hampshire and along the western edge
of Maine into lower Canada.
This mountainous ridge is more than
20 miles in width at some points in
Bennington and Windham counties,
md also in the counties of Rutland
md Windsor. Again in places it mar
COWS down to little more than single
idge as at Bolton. Everywhere the
scenery is interesting and striking,
while the variety is continual wonder
and delight.
Think of the charm of a mountain
rail winding in and out among the
mountains from one end of the state to
he other. What an opportunity it will
)fer to the young men when they come
home from schools and colleges next
summer to lay out such trail and
make ii possible and available without
narring any of its beauties We be-
ieVe that such an enterprise would
attract hundreds of visitors to Yer
mont, lovers of out of doors, whom the
state would be glad to welcome.
Naturally such trail would start
1t the south end of the state, probably
lot far from the city of North Adams.
Which bumps up against the Green
mountain range on the east The
builders would select their own route
doubtless, but we would have the trail
ollow the ridge between the broad
PASTORAL valley of Stamford and the
wilder and more dashing beauty of the
orient Deerfield.
hating place might web be at the
title hotel at Heartwellyille. where the
cultivated land meets and is overcome
" the spruce forest
From Heartwellville the trail should
urn westward to Sucker pond recently
'oolishly renamed for commercial and
in finin
Sucker pond the trail should creep
tlong the western preeipices of the
mountain from whence view can be
lad all the way to the Hudson river
and the Catskills.
Leaving the western ridge the trail
should cross the Businesses of the Dun
lille through the dense forest east of
Weodford City to the wonderful pano-
rama of the Hagar clearing, thence by
little pond down through the jungle
md across the narrow upper Deerheld
o Old Haystack, the sentinel of all
he mountains of western Windham,
md from whose summit may be seen
Mt. Monadnoek in New Hampshire, Mt.
Nachusett, Mt. Tom in Massachusetts
md Mt. Ascutney far to the northeast
ward. From Haystack up through
Somerset to Stratton mountain in its
solitary grandeur, thence to Stratton
pond by way of the mysterious Lost
pond and the Kelley strand, perhaps
he most delightful fishing camp in
southern Vermont.
From Stratton pond the way leads
through western Winhall to Peru,
where for the first time the trailer VIII
lave to leave the shade and cross Il
arm, though the distance is only
hundreds yards or SO and might even
here be avoided by circling to the left
.oward the valley of the Battenkill and
in full view of Mt Equinox of the sis
.er range, the Taconics and the grace
'ul Dorset mountain.
Leaving Peru and Mt. Bromley the
way is into the may and shadowy
hardwood forest, down through the
seemingly bottomless rayinc and up the
almost perpendicular face on the other
side to the Devils den in Mt. Tabor
out that is Rutland county and We
cave the further course to be traced
By some Rutland county dreamer
whose heart lies close up TO Killington
and graceful Pico.-Bennington Ban
ner.