Barbarossa
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My first discovery of the day took place while I was still in the car. The first left inside the research area was for Cant Dog Road. I'm sure there is a story behind that.
At the parking lot at the end of the road, I found a well used path that led fairly close to the ridge line on Green Mountain. There was a group of three that was headed up just as I drove in. I caught up to them in a large clearing and asked if they were going to Green Mtn. They seemed a bit confused by the question and said they were doing some work in the area. Beats a cubicle.
The ridge near Green is strewn with herd paths and marking tape. The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an active research area, so I probably trod through a number of projects.
One of the most well defined of the paths went within about 10 yards of the cannister. It was placed on the morning of 9/11/01 and was dedicated in memory of those who died that day.
Cushman is almost due west on the ridge, so I planned to descend to the col and climb back up. This plan was working ok until I got turned around in the col somewhere. I was ascending again and found a picturesque little bump on the ridge and found some gorgeous, park like fern groves. The trees were very open here. It would have been a great picnic spot. I kept ascending until I found the summit. The cannister looked familiar and confirmed that I had climbed Green twice in one morning! Wahoo!
I headed back into the col, this time checking my compass more often. The ridge between the two was a mixed bag that ran the gamut. There were the fern parks; I had some small areas of nightmarish spruces; I even got to pull my feet out of mud deep enough to make a loud sucking sound. Generally, it wasn't bad.
I found the summit to be generally as dms described it. The area was fairly clear, but just to the N-NW was a spruce tangle that would scare a sasquatch. I didn't find a cannister, but the shape of the summit was consistent with the map. Good enough for the Fred C Dobbs Mountain Club.
At the parking lot at the end of the road, I found a well used path that led fairly close to the ridge line on Green Mountain. There was a group of three that was headed up just as I drove in. I caught up to them in a large clearing and asked if they were going to Green Mtn. They seemed a bit confused by the question and said they were doing some work in the area. Beats a cubicle.
The ridge near Green is strewn with herd paths and marking tape. The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an active research area, so I probably trod through a number of projects.
One of the most well defined of the paths went within about 10 yards of the cannister. It was placed on the morning of 9/11/01 and was dedicated in memory of those who died that day.
Cushman is almost due west on the ridge, so I planned to descend to the col and climb back up. This plan was working ok until I got turned around in the col somewhere. I was ascending again and found a picturesque little bump on the ridge and found some gorgeous, park like fern groves. The trees were very open here. It would have been a great picnic spot. I kept ascending until I found the summit. The cannister looked familiar and confirmed that I had climbed Green twice in one morning! Wahoo!
I headed back into the col, this time checking my compass more often. The ridge between the two was a mixed bag that ran the gamut. There were the fern parks; I had some small areas of nightmarish spruces; I even got to pull my feet out of mud deep enough to make a loud sucking sound. Generally, it wasn't bad.
I found the summit to be generally as dms described it. The area was fairly clear, but just to the N-NW was a spruce tangle that would scare a sasquatch. I didn't find a cannister, but the shape of the summit was consistent with the map. Good enough for the Fred C Dobbs Mountain Club.
