 GREEN MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST
FR85 and Scott Road
Ruts made by a four-wheel-drive vehicle in the mud on the snowmobile trail signed "Top of the Mountain", south of Kelly Stand Road and north of Glastenbury Mountain, in the proposed Glastenbury Mountain Wilderness. Location coordinates by GPS receiver: N 43 degrees 03.449', W 73 degrees 00.406' (31 feet limit of error).
Today I checked out two places on snowmobile trails that had four-wheel-drive or all-terrain vehicle tracks.
First:
A snowmobile trail bearing nominally south from the Kelly Stand Road, just east of the Bourn Pond Trail trailhead on the Kelly Stand Road. Coordinates of starting point: N 43 degrees 03.509', W 73 degrees 00.419' (22 feet limit of error).
This trail had deep four-wheel-drive ruts at its start, but in a short distance the trail was so badly gullied by erosion as to become impassable to 4WD vehicles. There also was no evidence of ATV travel beyond this point.
The snowmobile trail crosses the Appalachian Trail at N 43 degrees 03.304', W 73 degrees 06.337' (39 feet). At this point the AT bears 115 degrees magnetic, and the snowmobile trail bears 25 degrees magnetic.
I turned around at N 43 degrees 03.176', W 73 degrees 00.324' (53 feet). I suspect this snowmobile trail connects with the snowmobile trail signed as ́South Mountain Trail, which bears roughly southeastward away from the southern extension of FR 85 and crosses the Appalachian Trail south of Story Spring Shelter.
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