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Long Trail Lodge

Rutland, Vt.

Division VI

SHERBURNE PASS TO BRANDON-

ROCHESTER HIGHWAY

North of the highway at Sherburne Pass is Deer's Leap Shelter, open front, with stove, simple cooking utensils and bunks for 12 persons.

From Deer's Leap Shelter a ten-minute side trail leads to the Deer's Leap Caves and Cliff. The caves consist of a large and several smaller caverns connected with winding subterranean passages. The caves are only dimly lighted and candles or flash lights are needed. Above the caves is Deer's Leap Cliff and Lookout from which a very fine view of The Long Trail Lodge, Pico Peak and Sherburne Pass is obtained.

BLUE RIDGE TRAILS FROM LONG TRAIL LODGE

Hikers who stay at The Long Trail Lodge will find several good trips that can be taken over trails cut in that region in the summer of 1932. The longest of these is the Blue Ridge Mountain round trip via Noyes Pond. Blue Ridge Mountain is about 5 miles northwest of The Long Trail Lodge and is quite striking as viewed from the front porch of the Lodge.

This round trip leaves the highway in front of the Lodge and follows The Long Trail (white blazes) north to Noyes Pond Lodge (5 1/2 miles). Then it leaves The Long Trail and follows an approach trail (blue blazes) to the west where it enters a road about 1 1/2 miles from Noyes Pond. It turns left on this road and follows it for 1/2 mile until it approaches an old sawmill site now marked only by a pile of sawdust. Here it leaves the road to the right and after crossing a brook, climbs along an old wood road through forest for 2 1/2 miles to the summit of Blue Ridge Mountain (3,293 feet). The grade is nowhere very steep, though it climbs 1,700 feet in the 2 1/2 miles.

On Blue Ridge Mountain the views are very good. The Coolidge Range is near at hand in the southeast and south, while south and southwest are Stratton and Dorset Mountains. To the west are Herrick and Bird Mountains, with Rutland and Proctor in the foreground. In the far west and northwest are the Adirondacks, while near the foot of the mountain in that direction is a sizeable lake formed by the East Pittsford Dam on East Creek. Several of the peaks of the main range of the Green Mountains are visible in the north even as far away as Camel's Hump.