St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-30
"a a Mountain Trail.

that the mountain anG 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 inter-
esting suggestion in relation to the
development of Vermont attractions
that has been brought forward this
year. Whoever originated the plan
deserves a rising vote of thanks
Vermont has a mountain wilderness
extending from the south line of
Readsboro and Stamford to the Ca
madam border. In fact from the vi
cinity of Roxbury and Warren there
are two ranges of which the western
is the most elevated and precipltous
but the eastern much longer, eX-
tending as it does through northern
New Hampshire and along the wes-
tern edge of Maine into lower Can
ada. M
This mountainous ridge is more
than twenty miles in width at some
points in Bennington and Windham
counties and also in the counties of
Rutland and Windsor. Again in
places it narroWs down to little more
than a single ridge as at Bolton.
Everywhere the scenery is interest
ing and striking while the variety
is a continual wonder and delight.
Think of the charm of a mountain
trail winding in and out among the
mountains from one end of the state
to the other. What an opportunity it
will offer to the young men when
they come home from schools and
colleges next summer to lay out such
a trail and make it possible and
available without marring any of its
beauties. We believe that such an
enterprise would attract hundreds of
visitors to Vermont, lovers of out
of doors, whom the state would be
glad to welcome.
Naturally such a trail would start
at the south end of the state, prob
ably not 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 follow the ridge between
the broad pastoral valley of STAN
ford and the wilder and more dash
ing beauty Of the torrent Deer
field.
A hating place might well be at
the little hotel at HeartWellville,
where the cultivated land meets and
is overcome by the spruce forest
From Heartwellville the trail
L
pond recently foolishly renamed for
commercial and wholly insufficient
reasons. From Sucker pond the
tail should creep along the western
precipices of the mountain from
whence a view can be had all the
way to the Hudson river and the
Catskills.
Leaving the western ridge the
trail should cross the Businesses OF
the Dunvil1e through the dense tor-
est east of Woodford City to the
wonderful panorama Of the Hagar
clearing, thence by Little pond
down through the Jungle ard across
the narrow upper Deerfield to Old
Haystack, the sentinel of all the
mountains of Western Windham
and from whose summit may be seen
Mt, Monadanock in New Hampshire,
Mt Wachusett, Mt. Tom in Massa-
chusetts and Mt. Ascutney far to the
northeastWard. From Haystack up
through Somerset to Stratton noun
tain in it's solitary grandeur, thence
to Stratton pond via the mysterious
Lost Pond and the Kelley Stand,
perhaps the most delightful fishing
camp in southern Vermont.
From Stratton pond the way leads
through western Winhal to Peru
| Wnere Tor the HrSC Time IHe tfdi1eI
will have to leave the shade and
cross farm, though the distance is
only a hundred yards or so and
might even here be avoided by cir
cling to the left toward the valley
of the Battenkill and in full view
of Mt. Equinox of the sister range.
the Taconics and the graceful Dor
set mountain.
Leaving Peru and Mt. Bromley the
way is into the may and shadowy
hard wood forest, down through the
seemingly bottomless ravine and VI
the almost perpendicular face on the
either side to the Devils Den in Mt
Tabor-but that is Rutland county
and we leave the further course tc
be traced by some Rutland county
: dreamer whose heart lies close III
to Killington and graceful Pico.-
bennington Banner.
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