Hubbardton Battlefield & Mt Zion

Yesterday I went hiking near Hubbardton, Vermont, visiting the battlefield for a second time (now armed with a camera), and hiking to the top of Mt Zion, which is more impressive than it sounds. It's really barely a mountain. Plus, you have to drive half-way up just to get to the trails. So it's only a 45 minute trip to the top.


Here's a view of the Taconics from Hubbartdton battlefield, the place of the only Revolutionary War battle fought on Vermont soil.


More viewy views, this time with grassy grass.


Taconics to the west, which aren't nearly as tall.


The hilly parts of Mt. Zion, in partial fall foliage glory.


More Taconic action, with Lord Actin.


Sky business!


Mt. Zion. Note the rocky rocks. I will be there soon.


And here I am, on those same rocky rocks. Call me Mr. Outback.



Finally, a foolish video I made. With Lord Acton, DP.

Tinmouth and Clarendon Gorge

Electric line gap. Looking down on Clarendon? I'm no good at geography.


Dobson the car, looking snug in the mountains.


Some hill. Somewhere.


Down the road from some hill. Somewhere.


The road. Hill not pictured.


Opposite of road. Another frakkin' hill.


The sleepy town of Clarendon Springs. Yes, that's really a town.


Tinmouth Mountain....Maybe.


More (possible) Tinmouth.


These I know. Danby Hill in the foreground. Mounts Dorset and Woodlawn in the back.


Beautiful Clarendon Gorge, which looked like another mountain from Google Maps. I had printouts to hike it and everything! But what I really needed was a canoe.

Stoweland

No new pics -- just some older ones from last May, taken way north of here, in Stowe, Vermont.


Looking east from the von Trapp Family Lodge. Yes, that von Trapp family.


Now, facing Westerly.


These pics are like porn to me. Like candy. Like candy-porn.

....You know what I mean.


The flattest, widest, mountain road ever.


Earth! Sky! Water! Fire!


Captain Planet, eat your heart out!


Seriously, I'm like freaking Anne Geddes.


Like Thomas Kinkade!


Mt. Mansfield maybe? If so, this is the highest mountain in the state. If not...well do you really care?