Gore and East VT- advice?

[buckyball1]

Hi -looking for help (as usual)--has anyone been up either of these peaks in NE VT in last few years?

1) East-can i get in on road between Gallup Mills and Hartwellville at Gallup Mills? is the gate open and "Radar Road" Ok to travel to upper locked gate?-otherwise, looks straightforward, 4.0 miles up a road from locked 2nd gate?

2) Gore--know where i can get directions to trailhead/trail description w/o buying a VT guide?

thanks--here or PM would be great

jim

 

[Pig Pen]

Hi -looking for help (as usual)--has anyone been up either of these peaks in NE VT in last few years?

1) East-can i get in on road between Gallup Mills and Hartwellville at Gallup Mills? is the gate open and "Radar Road" Ok to travel to upper locked gate?-otherwise, looks straightforward, 4.0 miles up a road from locked 2nd gate?

2) Gore--know where i can get directions to trailhead/trail description w/o buying a VT guide?

thanks--here or PM would be great

jim

Two years ago the road from Gallup Mills to the beginning of the East Mountain road was ok. There was a closed gate just before the East Mountain road. I drove a Honda Civic up there. THe road to East Mountain is paved all the way to the junk yard.

The Gore Mountain trail starts near the north end of Norton Pond on rt. 114. There is a place to park across the road. But why not buy the guide? It benefits the GMC. Plus there is info on other Vermont 3Ks in there.

 

[bigmoose]

East, Vt, is easily done from Gallup Mills, a couple of rustic buildings clustered around a bridge over a creek called Moose River. You'll parallel that creek upstream on a good road, eventually coming to a wide turnout just before an intersection. Fishermen park here to fish the stream. Just uphill from here, take the right, uphill fork, walk past the gate, and hoof it up to the ruins on top. With luck you'll have a drizzly, misty day and think you're in some Twilight Zone episode up there. It never occured to me to look for a canister up there, but apparently there is one somewhere.

The Gore Mt. trailhead is right on rte. 114 near the northern extemity of Norton Pond, maybe 5 miles south of the Canadian border. The jar, which was inside the firewarden's cabin, could use a new notebook.

 

[Papa Bear]

I did these both a few years back. The Vermont Day Hikers Guide is helpful for finding the trail head for Gore. East, being a county HP, is more popular and there are a number of posts about it on this board, including whether it is or isn't open to the public. (Go anyway!)

My logs:
Gore
East

These are part of a longer report. If you have a few minutes you may want to read the whole of it: A Vermont Six Pack

What I recall about Gore was the cabin at the summit. From my log: 'I crossed a few easy rock slabs and soon found myself at the summit area which was a small clearing with the foundations of a long gone fire tower and a still habitable fire warden's cabin. Inside, beside to moldering matresses on a bunk bed, was a glass 3000 footer register. On the first page was the inscription "Cannister placed by Dennis Crispo 14 May 1988". Way to go Dennis.'

 

[Nate]

For Gore Mountain, the group that has been maintaining the trail also now keeps a notebook at the cabin for signing in. It's kept in a large Ziploc bag (along with the pages of the old register) in the cupboard on the right as you walk past the porch into the main room of the cabin. With any luck, no one's moved it since I was up there in late June.