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earth." If preferred, one may follow down the steep hillside to the home of Wells Dickinson, where meals and lodging may be had and parcel post sent by R. F. D., Peru, Vt. This is the house nearest to the high point of the Peru-Manchester Turnpike, and is 1 1/2 miles east from where The Long Trail crosses the same pike. Auto stages in both directions to railroads and hotels.

From the top of the pasture The Trail enters thick second-growth and after passing an abandoned lumber camp follows an old road to Peru Turnpike and crossing same, goes through young woods (passing some fine glacial drift boulders) to Winhall Pike. Here is Mt. Aeolus, G. M. C. Camp for 24. Trail then climbs westerly, passing an abandoned lumber-working with a large clearing and many old roads that make The Trail obscure. Entering the clearing from the easterly side it passes out on the southwesterly corner by an old lumber road and after leaving it, crosses to the westerly side of the ridge which it slabs on another deserted road in dense second-growth shrubbery with occasional vistas, to the high point. Deserting the old road just before reaching the camp clearing, The Trail plunges steeply down through fine hardwood forest, and passing a clearing with fine vista of Manchester, comes on a little used road at Prospect Rock, far above the Downer Glen and overlooking Manchester, Mount Equinox, the Taconic Range, the Dorset Valley and Dorset Mountain; a superb view.

From Prospect Rock a lumber road leads down 3 1/2 miles to Manchester Depot on the Rutland R. R. Manchester is a fashionable summer resort with many fine residences and a famous golf club.

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Trail turns east at Prospect Rock up old road (known as the Rootville Road) almost a mile to the Buck Job. Here is located the Swezey G. M. C. Camp.

Here The Long Trail crosses a small brook on the south, not shown on the government maps, and turning to the right, leads away to Bourne Pond. This pond is one of great beauty, full of trout, and with three camps at the inlet or south end, one of which is open for all comers, and provided with beds and bedding, stove and utensils. Be very careful of fire, and leave camp neat and clean. This is not a G. M. C. camp.

The Trail is well-marked and leads from south-east side of Bourne Pond through fine woods to Stratton Pond and thence around southerly side of the latter to The Willis Ross Lodge, at the East End, built in 1929 by the Worcester Section. Fine view to west. There are boats on Bourne Pond but none on Stratton.

The Trail slabs up the westerly slope of Stratton Mountain to the south peak, passing the Dufresne Job (1 mile). There is a fine spring near the summit. The State Forestry Department maintains a steel tower erected originally by the Stratton Mountain Club.