I love when stuff like this comes across our tiny tones public forum . This is a bear sighting on our road

We’re bearing up well !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I are really getting into this back country bushwhacking.…

We’re getting to know some of the wilderness back behind our house. It’s really fun connecting the dots between a bunch of places

Were determined to find the location of the old Wylie lodge. It was dismantled and burned by the Green Mountain club in 1983.

We’ve tried approaching it from the Robbins Mountainside today we approached it from the happy Hollow side which is on the other side in Huntington.

We started off by heading up through thick woods up to a ridge to see if we can figure things out.… It was slow going because it was very steep very wooded. We finally came down to a road… And a pond which we always have known was there but I’ve never seen. I actually took a swim. Then we followed some single lane bike tracks up in the woods explored a couple of different things before heading straight through the woods to where we thought Wylie would be.

We were surprised to find signs back in the woods like that. I’d have to see it to know how remote this was

Eventually after crashing to the bush for over an hour we might be the location of Wylie Lodge. We were about to give up with Diane found a blue blaze… Then right after that I found two pieces of stove pipe in an old tin can. That had to be the place. We also found some sawed logs etc. signs Of human existence… In the middle of nowhere

Super fun doing this kind of exploring… Especially with this wonderful fall we’re having

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Diane and I spent the morning working on the house . This afternoon we just needed to get outside . Our goal today was to climb the mysterious mount 2360 (aka Wiley lodge mountain) it’s not a big mountain .. just 2360’feet high .. but there are no trails up it and we look at it all the time . We’re getting really in to bushwhacking you these UK names mountains to learn our neighborhood better . We really want to go to where other folks are not going ..

It was a nice steep climb.. some nettles and thick brush .. but worth the hike

The peak itself was in a dense tree thicket

Bit a few meters away was a rock outcropping with amazing views to the south and west .

This is looking over at Robbins mountain ..which is our backyard

It was raining and cold Nd we were pretty chilled by the time we started heading down. We just followed a stream and it dutifully took us to the trail.. steep but beautiful !

Now time for sleep. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Big news for today is that our friend Pat Perry started the installation of our two new heat pumps.

That’s an old friend of mine from IBM and he’s switch to putting in heat pumps all over the northern part of the state. He’s so good at it that he’s booked into next year… But it’s worth waiting for. He’s really really good and he really made us a fantastic deal. I’d be happy to connect him to anyone out there who is considering heat pumps

We took advantage of Two great incentive plans in Vermont to switch to heat pumps. One was from Green Mountain Power and the other was from Vermont energy efficiency… Together they paid for half of the cost Of our two heat pumps. The one that Pat and his buddy George put in today in a yoga space as well as one that’s going in our kitchen. The cool thing about these is they do the magic of being both heaters and air conditioners… And they do it in a way that is super energy efficient and quiet. Pat did a fantastic job of selecting the units for us and installing the first ones. He’s coming back next week to do the second which will be in the house.

I’ve just been testing the one in the yoga space and it’s fantastic. It warms the space up so much quicker than the in floor heat.… It’ll be so nice to be able to flip a switch and have the place either warm or cool as needed.… Honestly… I’m more interested in the AC aspect that I am in the heat.

After all. You can always put on more clothes… But there’s only so many you can take off 🙂

Nite all, nite sam

-me