Big Spruce, Little Spruce, Big Shanty

[dms]

Yesterday, Jim C. and I did these 3 remote ME 3k peaks. To access them you follow KI Road to another older logging road, you then follow this road 8 mi to it's end at Greenwood Pond. BTW, Greenwood Pond is worth the drive itself, it is very pretty, surrounded by White Cap, Little Spruce and Big Spruce. We did Little Spruce first, which strangely is higher than Big Spruce! It was a mixture of all types of vegetation both good and bad. We found the register, and the last entry was last June by Eric S.. We then traversed the ridge about 1.5 mi to Big Shanty. Big Shanty was covered by very thick vegetation, really bad stuff, which slowed us down quite a bit. After signing the register we descended into the col, and were lucky to find an old overgrown logging road which we followed for about 4 mi back to Greenwood Pond. The last peak of the day, Big Spruce, was a bw of about .6 mi through some, appropriately, spruce, of varying degrees of thickness. Finally, at 5 we got back to my truck for the long trek home. The best things about this trip were the outstanding views of White Cap and Greenwood Pond. If anyone wants some more detailed info, let me know.

 

[post'r boy]

those are some nice lookin' mountains from the barren-chairback range.'guess i'll be seein' up close and personal one day!
all i wanna do is whack!!

 

[dms]

Barren and Chairback are right across the street, so to speak. You'd love it in there postr'boy! We found a new boundary swath along the ridge between Little Spruce and Big Shanty, we were thinking the it shows the northern edge of the land the AMC bought, but we don't know that for sure.

 

[MarkJ]

Nice!

That's a nice day,wackin 3 ,with great scenery...Thanxs for the report

 

[post'r boy]

p.s. is that "the" jim c.???
where's bill d??????

 

[dms]

It is "the" Jim C. Even with arm twisting, Bill D. has decided not to do the ME 3's. He has, however, done all the NH and VT 3's.

 

[RoySwkr]

Yesterday, Jim C. and I did these 3 remote ME 3k peaks. To access them you follow KI Road to another older logging road, you then follow this road 8 mi to it's end at Greenwood Pond.

Civilization is coming! I have been to Greenwood Pond twice and had to walk both times. The first time the road was washed out a couple miles before and the second time it was too overgrown to consider.

The first trip, a hunter shot a moose at the pond at dawn having ridden his ATV in, he went back for his buddy and a tractor and spent most of the day hauling it out on an old car hood they found and then winching it into his pickup.

 

[dms]

Roy, we were totally shocked to get in that far. We were fully prepared to hike in from the second bridge, or the hairpin curve. It turns out there was some very recent logging done on Big Spruce. Quite frankly, the amount of logging done in no way justified the extent to which the road had been restored. It was really difficult to understand why they had done all that road work for so little wood having been harvested.