Mt. Mansfield
Posted by Sue on August 9th, 2006Last last Sunday, the 31st was a beautiful clear day. So we decided to drive up the Toll Road at the mountain as we try to do at least once a year. One new thing: the attendent gives you a CD to listen to on the way up filled with facts and history about the Mtn to which our 6 year old exclaimed: “BORING!” So we got out at the top thinking we were just going to travel down the little trail through the woods to where the view was. We hadn’t even eaten our lunch yet that I packed as it was barely 11:30. I grabbed a 12 oz. bottle of water for 5 of us and we were off. We got to “the view” where you can see all the way to Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks beyond. We’re a little underdressed in t-shirts and shorts and one of us is only 3 years old but they wanted to press on. We negotiated a couple times about stopping and turning back. In the meantime we pass people. People wearing fleece and long pants, with backpacks, with a First-Aid kit tending to a casualty. We passed a family that owns a kids’ sporting gear store here in town. All were appropriately dressed with packs and looking at us like we didn’t know what we were doing (obviously). It didn’t look good. We made it almost all the way to the nose through some pretty hairy spots where we had to climb. But surpisingly enough, I am happy to say we managed to share our tiny bottle of water between us. No one fell off the Mtn. We didn’t freeze to death and there were very few tears. There’s always tears.
