Bolton - Trail clearing (Blue Doggie World)

 Cleared the blue path on the Doggie World map. These trails are ready for winter. No chain sawing required.

Notes:

Spruce Run - minimal lopping. Lots of branch tossing. One tree shown below. Although not completely cleared it is mostly off the trail now. 

Before:

After:

Maple Loop to Deer run - Few branches, One 6 inch leaner removed.

Deer run - Branches, two small trees.

Cleared Lower Lane and Twin Knolles loop. Went completely around loop. A few small leaning trees. Lots of clipping and branches.

Trail that goes from Twin Knolles loop back to Broadway was rough like we haven't cleared it in a while? No sign where this trail hits Broadway. There are signs where the loop hits Broadway (2 places). 

Ran into State people on Broadway when returning. They are planning for a bridge where there is currently a culvert. The remaining pictures don't need to be reviewed from a trail clearing perspective. Just taking pictures on a nice day!

Typical small leaner that were around particularly in Twin Knolles area. Removed these.

Trail going from Twin Knolles loop to Broadway (NE) before clearing.

Bottom of access road.

Update 11/1/21

This was a sign hanging day that turned into a big sawing day.

The day started on lower Goat Path from Broadway. Instead of taking the left on Spruce run, the black on the map lower goat path trail was followed up to Maple Loop. This trail needed some branch tossing but basically pretty good. Then up Goat Path proper. Put up the Kid Bypass sign that you would see going up and the Goat Path sign you would see going down at the intersection of Kid Bypass and Goat Path. 

Major tree just before last uphill to no name trail (LT access trail). Blocking Goat Path completely. This took a while but it is removed. Put sign that you would see going down at intersection of no name trail and Goat Path. Then up to LT on no name trail. Just before LT there was a significant Birch. This was cut and it got stuck on another tree. After finding a good pry bar branch finally got it low and going down hill. This took a while but got to see some frozen pellets coming down for about 5 minutes. Put "To Bolton Trails" sign up that you can see from the LT if you are looking down toward the no name trail.

Then went back to Goat Path and went toward Fox Hollow. Big pine fell upright about 2/3 of the way from Goat Path/no name intersection to Fox Hollow intersection. This one is not going anywhere! You can ski around it. Took a right at Fox Hollow intersection. Two downed trees on this leg that were cut and removed. One of them had a red can top marker (old) on it. Then down Telemark to Maple Loop. Moved "Telemark" sign that was falling down to better tree.

Plenty of water everywhere!!

Some pictures:

Tree on Goat Path. Before picture.

After:

Birch up near LT. Before:

View from LT looking at no name trail. Looks like the "I" fell off the sign on the way up!

Birch. After picture:

Yet another water fall:

Big upright pine on Goat Path:

Another shot of big upright pine:

Not Bolton:

11/2/21

Putting up signs and trying to make sense of Doggie World with Ann and Laureen. Another short snow storm!

Hilton Head - One more sunrise

 One more walk on the beach at sunrise. Then a day of work and a short bike ride around the Hilton Head bike paths. Another 80 degree day and sunny. Since we start the long drive home tomorrow early I compared the weather in VT for next week to SC. VT is highs in the low 50's and lows in the low 40's and rain half of the days. SC is highs around 75 and lows around 55 with one day of rain all week. Why are we going home? I don't know. SC in the late Fall is pretty nice. The other factor is light. The sun sets in SC about 45 minutes later than VT this time of year.

A great trip overall. Near perfect weather with no rain for the two weeks. Now for the 20 hour drive to get home!

Short walk at lunch:

Aplidium Stellatum or Sea Pork is a colonial tunicate. Picture below. These strange things were on the beach. Tunicates are filter feeding organisms. We saw a number of them and different colors.

Holly at work. Never had time to read the sign that was on the wall next to her all week!

A few more beach pictures:

The remains of a civil war cannon setup South on the beach:

A few pictures out the car window driving home. These are in VT:

Drawing of Henry by Ashley:

Kim took these of sunset in VT:

A few more late Fall VT photos: