The PBX Boss in Vermont

[Teegate]

All,

At midnight on Tuesday Jessica and I met up with bobpbx at my relatives home in Vermont for a short vacation. Here are a few photo's from our travels there.

Above my relatives home there is a train track which travels along the side of a mountain towards Canada and south. Back in 1967 I walked that track for the first time with my brother, father, and cousin. We decided this week to visit the location where the RR crosses a stream and many many years ago a stone bridge was built that that water would flow through. Here is Bob checking the nearby waterfall out.

We found this interesting rock with what looks like metal in it.

I have been going there for 47 years and for the first time I noticed that when the bridge had been repaired the person inscribed their name and the date into it. When I return next year I will clean the name since we were not able to fully remove the dirt. The date is Sep 13 1957, just a few months after I was born.

You can see the area along the wall above Jessica's feet.

Jessica passing through it.

On another adventure we saw this along a road.

We visited a covered bridge.

Yesterday we climbed a local mountain.

PBX in Vermont.

The wind turbines at Sheffield. (Take note of the cutout area which I will discuss soon)

Jessica got mad at Bob and pushed him over the edge. However, he miraculously was able to grab a rock and climb back up.

Making it to the summit.

Above I mentioned the cutout area. While on the mountain we ran into a woman and her children who unbelievably lived right next to this cutout area. She told us how to get to it and later in the day Bob and I visited it. The property is for sale so we checked it out as if we were going to purchase it. We could see this location from my relatives house far down at the lake and we finally would get to see it.

From that location we saw the mountain we had climbed.

The lake where my relatives house is can be viewed in the distance.

Larger photo's.

The lake again

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The mountain again

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From the mountain.

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The Lowell wind turbines far in the distance.

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Bob and the mountain.

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Guy

 

[bobpbx]

Guy, thanks for giving me a tour of some of the Northeast Kingdom highlights. I was pleasantly surprised driving up through Green Mountain National Forest, and even more surprised by the beauty of the Northeast. I had only seen Vermont from the windshield before, so I had this visual in my mind of endless 'hills' of forest without any vistas. I'm glad I went up with you. Cameras never do the landscape justice, but here are a few photos.

 

[GermanG]

Nice photos of beautiful countryside. I love the pines but often miss the mountians I explored when younger.

 

[manumuskin]

Me and Momma hit about twenty covered bridges last october.She wants to go back and hit em all,over 200 in New England with the vast majority in Vermont and NH with Vermont holding the record. I love the granite rock they have up there,not certain but that mineral in the rock you took a pic of looks like Pyrite (Fools Gold)?We were probably about 40 miles southeast of your lake along the Connecticut River in Coos county NH and the corresponding county on the Vermont side...Essex?Love them woods too.Pine Barrens,Cypress Swamps and Spruce Moose Forest are my three favorite habitats,hard to pick between em.

 

[manumuskin]

PS those turbines look exactly like the ones they put up in WV on Canaan Mountain.Quite ugly but I guess folks need power.

 

[Teegate]

The older I get the more I look like my dad. I can picture him vividly in the boat at that same spot. That photo is him but much thinner.

 

[woodjin]

Wow, what a beautiful area! great photos. I like that shot of Jessical with the PBX shirt in such a non PB area. Great shot of you on the boat, Guy.

 

[Ben Ruset]

That looks like a great vacation. I haven't been to VT in over 10 years. I should probably change that.

 

[jburd641]

Guy, thanks for giving me a tour of some of the Northeast Kingdom highlights. I was pleasantly surprised driving up through Green Mountain National Forest, and even more surprised by the beauty of the Northeast. I had only seen Vermont from the windshield before, so I had this visual in my mind of endless 'hills' of forest without any vistas. I'm glad I went up with you. Cameras never do the landscape justice, but here are a few photos.

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This photo, considering it's in Vermont, reminds me of a solo trip I took up there when some friends bailed at the last minute. I was out on Crystal Lake, in Barton, fishing and catching a whole bunch of nothing. I took the boat in for lunch and came back out later and was heading to the same area when I saw what I thought was a log with seaweed on some branches. I motored closer and the danged thing turned and looked at me! Well, I almost fell out of the boat! Here's a bull moose swimming across the lake and of course, me without my camera. I decided to enjoy him and kept my distance but he turned around and headed in the opposite direction. I followed him back to shore and watched him walk through a dense bush like it wasn't there and disappear across the road into the brush. Turns out the guy I rented my cabin from saw it too. He described it as a "little one," maybe 800 lbs! Made the entire trip!