Instead of writing about three on-again, off-again rainy days around Woodstock, Vermont, here are my 20 (+1 for context) best shots. The best day, without a doubt, is the one where I walk two miles around Quechee Gorge, then two miles across Route 4 to Dewey Pond and then six miles at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park – Vermont’s one and only National Park. It is covered with old carriage roads, which lead up through the dense forest to The Pogue, a beautiful 14-acre pond, and Mount Tom (1,357 feet). Take the Precipice Trail down from Mount Tom, rather than up – avoiding the 1,000 foot climb over 0.9 miles. Either way, it’s not that hard (or scary).
On the morning after Day 3 of camping at Quechee State Park, the heavy rains came. Nothing like packing up a campsite in a deluge. Luckily, I have friends at the Frontenac Ski Lodge in Plymouth, New Hampshire who have promised to provide food and shelter for the next two nights – as long as I am decontaminated first.
