RoySwkr
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http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4748555&e=664605&s=50&size=m&u=5&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
Decided to bag these peaks in winter before somebody built a wind farm and shut off access like the existing wind farm. Light snow overnight and still some on Rte.8, but the new snow made it easy to see animal tracks and follow your tracks back. There was just under a foot of old snow, with a hard crust you could walk on with snowshoes but often punched through without. The woods were 2nd/3rd growth hardwoods which made for easy bushwhacking, except for the heavy pack I could have moved as fast as summer.
Parked at height of land where I met rabbit hunter who said hunting was better by the private wind towers than on the National Forest land which was too grown up, he had hunted there all his life and didn't like the postings. Since I would be leaving tracks, I chose to walk .2 miles down the road to start across the town line on NF land. The first 10 feet were the hardest of the day, scrambling up the icy plow drift. Soon put on snowshoes and wandered up to ridge, then ambled up to register. The bottle was dry inside, but the only paper was an old deer tag on which somebody had written "No Wind Towers". About 100 yards beyond was a new clearing with a tall pole with several anemometers mounted on it. Watched some mares' tails blow by, then went down the wide access path to my tracks from the way up, passing a tree with several large bracket fungus. Back at the car for lunch.
Then started up the woods road on the W side, but it was wet & muddy so I soon climbed into the woods. This ridge featured a bracket fungus of about a foot in radius. The summit area is flat and the W part is in 3rd growth hardwoods where you couldn't see from one bump to another, so I didn't find a register and I'm not sure where the exact summit is. One possibility is in a clearing next to another anemometer pole.
I would say these people are serious about expanding their wind farm onto the NF, and suspect it will be allowed. Hopefully some public access will remain.
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4748555&e=664605&s=50&size=m&u=5&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25
Decided to bag these peaks in winter before somebody built a wind farm and shut off access like the existing wind farm. Light snow overnight and still some on Rte.8, but the new snow made it easy to see animal tracks and follow your tracks back. There was just under a foot of old snow, with a hard crust you could walk on with snowshoes but often punched through without. The woods were 2nd/3rd growth hardwoods which made for easy bushwhacking, except for the heavy pack I could have moved as fast as summer.
Parked at height of land where I met rabbit hunter who said hunting was better by the private wind towers than on the National Forest land which was too grown up, he had hunted there all his life and didn't like the postings. Since I would be leaving tracks, I chose to walk .2 miles down the road to start across the town line on NF land. The first 10 feet were the hardest of the day, scrambling up the icy plow drift. Soon put on snowshoes and wandered up to ridge, then ambled up to register. The bottle was dry inside, but the only paper was an old deer tag on which somebody had written "No Wind Towers". About 100 yards beyond was a new clearing with a tall pole with several anemometers mounted on it. Watched some mares' tails blow by, then went down the wide access path to my tracks from the way up, passing a tree with several large bracket fungus. Back at the car for lunch.
Then started up the woods road on the W side, but it was wet & muddy so I soon climbed into the woods. This ridge featured a bracket fungus of about a foot in radius. The summit area is flat and the W part is in 3rd growth hardwoods where you couldn't see from one bump to another, so I didn't find a register and I'm not sure where the exact summit is. One possibility is in a clearing next to another anemometer pole.
I would say these people are serious about expanding their wind farm onto the NF, and suspect it will be allowed. Hopefully some public access will remain.
