Post edited 9:14 pm – October 9, 2012 by Mike M
Columbus Day weekend is a traditional leaf-peeping weekend around these parts, and we were lucky enough to have reason to travel up to northern Vermont where the foliage was peaking. We stayed the weekend at Ricker Pond SP, one of several parks in the Groton State Forest. For your $22 a night you get a patch of dirt with a fire ring, access to a basic bathroom, and a hole to dump your waste in on the way out. But amenities aren't why you come to this area. The prisitine landscape is. Vermont maintains one of the best hiking trail systems around, and the scenery this time of year is stunning.
It can get cool at night in VT any time of year, but especially during the spring and fall. I anticipated this and hooked up my extra battery, which can be seen in the first picture wrapped in a plastic bag and just sitting on the tongue beside the permanent battery. I keep it in a milk crate for easy toting around, and I've got a set of 10ga leads with alligator clips attached to the coach battery for quick and easy hookup. This ensures that I'll have plenty of juice for running the furnace at night and in the morning, in addition to anything else we might run. How cold did it get? I ran the heat for a couple of hours around the time we bedded down, then turned it off…I thought. Turns out I had only pushed the thermostat all the way down, but didn't push it past that last click to "off". Around four in the morning the heat fired off. It was in the mid-30's outside. Man it's nice to have that heat!
Upon arrival on Friday afternoon: Don't let the shorts and t-shirt fool you. It wouldn't last!
The colors were stunning!
Looking across Ricker Pond:
Mike M.
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