Let me help clarify "boulders" for those not familiar with the North east! I got plenty of bigger one's too. Nice W.S.!
Your aweful thick too. Your forest is a little more mature than ours. Your making good progress though. Much wider than we've got...... good luck. Perfect weather right around the corner for woodsworking!
That remimds me of our old property in Pa. Very cool how those sit. Reminds me of tripod rock, a focal point of a hike we took in Jersey. Paul bunion might be familiar with this place.......(a summer solstice party area)
I have area's where a rabbit couldn't get through also, small Hemlock's. If you ever get down 'round Conway NH and want to see a big rock, check out the "Madison boulder" I think it's the biggest "glacial erratic" in NH.
Wow..... thats huge! We'll be down that way at some point. Nice town, Its been a few years since we've been over that way. I remember a lot of shops on the main strip...
I've been there. Been a while though. Another cool geologic thing in that neighborhood is the puddingstone than got scraped by off a nearby geologic formation and deposited by the glaciers all over that part of NJ. Puddingstone (rock) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (scroll t0 Schunemunk puddingstone)
Oh yes...... I remember the puddingstone all throughout the highlands. One of my favorite hikes were terrace pond, bearfort mtn, surprise lake, and high point. Ill need to look back in my hiking journal at all those spots
I enjoy building trails across my property too. It gives access for logging, but also recreation, hunting...and like this year...fire suppression if need be. When my Forestry Plan was completed here a few years ago, my forester asked about logging roads and I handed her a file that I had with maps, plans, grades, elevations and drainage's, and she was like, "well I see you are all set." It was kind of funny because other then determining the amount of wood I had on my land, she took the forestry plan I drew up for myself that I am not "qualified" to do, and incorporated it word for word into the official Forest Management Plan. Nothing against forester's, its just when you are into something, you got the topic covered! Good luck on your trail building adventures. A good road will serve you well, now and in the future, and if laid out well, just a few will let you access the most area without taking up tree growing room. Here is one I just did. Its not a great picture, but goes over an intermittent stream and around a bend.
Looks good........ I like the fire access road comment, thats a good idea. They are very serious up here regarding fires-and for good reason as the state is 90% forest. No clearing today.......ended up mowing and building a floating stand for the flat screen tv. School starts tomorrow, so focusing on that. Hoping this week to continue the trail clearing.
Silly me, I knew you were from NH but did not see that you were from Whitefield. We have another house not far from you, just on the other side of Littleton NH, a town called Lisbon, NH. About halfway between Littleton and Woodsville.
I know the town well. We just moved here from Pa a few weeks ago. Love Littleton! We almost ran the atvs today from littleton to lisbon, or maybe into woodsville too on the ammonoosuc rail trail.
We have two houses here in Maine and one there. We know Woodsville well because Katie taught school there before I married her and carried her away to here! I had a farm so I could not exactly leave Maine for NH. I did however marry her in North Haverhill, NH. She has a LOT of family there; Lisbon, Littleton, Benton, Dalton and Landaff; just to name a few. I got some good friends in Twin Mnt too, not far from you. Small world.
I could only dream of owning property like that someday.....by them I'd probably be too Damm old to work it! Looking good WS, I enjoy these "woodsworking" posts. Zap got me hooked on them a long time ago!
Been very busy getting things done, looking for work, and Matt in school. Everything is official, licenses, registration, etc. Working on small projects daily and enjoying ourselves at the same time. There is a major hive just down from where I left off on the trail, while scouting out a continued path, so I won't be messing around too close to there.
I'm curious WS, what brought you to NH? Please ignore if I'm being too nosey. We moved north from MD (Fred. Co.) years ago, I like the climate here better among a thousand other things.
We've been coming up here many many years..... mostly to hike. My youngest son Matt, started hiking at 5 years old, and took a liking to it. By 8 he had many 4000 footers under his belt, and to this day continues to enjoy it alot. We love the people, culture, the quaint towns, and like you the weather. I can't stand the heat at all. The crime is waaayyy less, the school's are better. The overall tax burden is less, and our lifestyle fits the motto, "Live free or Die" and we are porcupines. Snow, we love it. Snow shoeing, x country skiing this year, snow machines! We came to live life. We sacrificed much to get here, and there are so many other reasons like....... And....
