Well after looking at the Orient Express clues for Vt. a mystery has
been solved. After the big get together a while back and all the talk
about the pub and the beer and fiddle music, I now know what. why, and
where you folks were talking about. Which brings a question about the
Long Trail, are horses allowed on it. It sounds as tho it is state or
maybe federal land, if so then how much is open to horse back riding.
Can anyone tell me please. sounds like a beautiful part of the state.
Orient Express boxes
3 messages in this thread |
Started on 1999-11-26
[LbNA] Orient Express boxes
From: (grumsmoke@aol.com) |
Date: 1999-11-26 03:01:10 UTC-08:00
[LbNA] Re: Orient Express boxes
From: erik/susan davis (davisarc@wcvt.com) |
Date: 1999-11-26 09:11:31 UTC-08:00
I've been in rough places on a horse but I wouldn't risk my neck or the
horse on the Long Trail. It is true that I've only been on bits of the
trail but the pieces I've been over are no place for anything larger
than a St. Bernard.
On the other hand, there are a wealth of dirt roads with a fair amount
of horse travel on them. I'll talk to my friend who breeds Trahkeners
(sp?) about some of the trail systems, I know she has been working with
a group locally in the Champlain Valley. Get a map, find BUrlington &
Middlebury then look 1/2 way between and find Bristol snuggled up
against the mountains. We're in Monkton which probably isn't on the map
but is northwest of Bristol. You may have provided some inspiration for
a series!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Susan
Vermont
P10 F3 X7
horse on the Long Trail. It is true that I've only been on bits of the
trail but the pieces I've been over are no place for anything larger
than a St. Bernard.
On the other hand, there are a wealth of dirt roads with a fair amount
of horse travel on them. I'll talk to my friend who breeds Trahkeners
(sp?) about some of the trail systems, I know she has been working with
a group locally in the Champlain Valley. Get a map, find BUrlington &
Middlebury then look 1/2 way between and find Bristol snuggled up
against the mountains. We're in Monkton which probably isn't on the map
but is northwest of Bristol. You may have provided some inspiration for
a series!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Susan
Vermont
P10 F3 X7
[LbNA] Re: Orient Express boxes
From: (nep1bjd@nep10.med.navy.mil) |
Date: 1999-11-26 15:51:26 UTC-08:00
susan sez:
> I've been in rough places on a horse but I wouldn't risk my neck or
the
> horse on the Long Trail. It is true that I've only been on bits of
the
> trail but the pieces I've been over are no place for anything larger
> than a St. Bernard.
>
Oh, how true. Now I'm sure Tom will weigh in on this with the poop on
horse access to the Long Trail, since he has walked all 300 miles of
it, but Susan is right. That is one hard core, bone jangling, rocky
ridge of New England there. We hiked both sides of Smuggler's Notch
several years ago, and it was straight up, hand over hand, in a massive
confusion of house sized boulders. And there is evidence everywhere of
those monsters rolling around. If a glacial erratic falls off a cliff
in Vermont and a horse is there to see it, will it still get squashed?
Go on up anyway and have a poke around! It's marvelous! Jay
> I've been in rough places on a horse but I wouldn't risk my neck or
the
> horse on the Long Trail. It is true that I've only been on bits of
the
> trail but the pieces I've been over are no place for anything larger
> than a St. Bernard.
>
Oh, how true. Now I'm sure Tom will weigh in on this with the poop on
horse access to the Long Trail, since he has walked all 300 miles of
it, but Susan is right. That is one hard core, bone jangling, rocky
ridge of New England there. We hiked both sides of Smuggler's Notch
several years ago, and it was straight up, hand over hand, in a massive
confusion of house sized boulders. And there is evidence everywhere of
those monsters rolling around. If a glacial erratic falls off a cliff
in Vermont and a horse is there to see it, will it still get squashed?
Go on up anyway and have a poke around! It's marvelous! Jay