It reminds me so much of my own "Scrubapple Hillside" in Vermont's North East Kingdom.
I started hunting those covers in deer season in 1961 but soon learned they were grouse havens and the occasional woodcock flight would drop in.
There were old "tote roads", originally farm roads, in those wooded hills. we hunted abandoned farms like the old "Bedore Place or the Hall Place or the "Fink Place" up on Fink's Hill. Today they have been logged twice since '61 and the cleated skidder tires have ground into the earth any evidence of what we once knew.
There was a spot off the back corner of a field of the Heath Farm that had the remains of two model A's and a '29 Ford touring car that we used to call "The Old Ford Covert" but an AH driving a skidder flattened every one of them for no reason whatsoever except that he had the power to do so... Today it is known as "The Tin Pile" and few remember what it once was... but I have pictures both in my pictures folder as well as in my memory.
Last edited by DAM16SXS; 04/19/26 05:16 PM.
