Alternate Route

 On the way back home from our stay at Shadow Lake VT, I decided to explore a bit.  I had run an out and back a couple of days earlier in which I came close to trying a loop--even though I was unsure if a loop was really possible.  Once I got back to the lake house, I mapped it out and I could have made a loop, but was glad I didn't try:  It would have been almost two miles further and I very likely would have gotten lost.

On the way home, I thought, 'why not see what it would have looked like?'

For the first couple of miles, it looked great!  Rolling hills of beautiful scenery--fall colors and green pastures.  Then it turned to a very primitive one-lane road.  Also, it was pretty steeply down hill.  We were in an all-wheel drive Subaru Impreza, so I thought there was a good chance of getting back up the hill, if need be, but I wasn't looking forward to that being necessary.  Then, this:

The water was about 15 inches deep and the feature was about 100 feet long.  There was some current, but not enough to matter.  Had I been driving our GMC Yukon, I doubt I would have slowed down.  As it was, I stopped and scouted the entire length of the path.  The depth looked uniform and I could scout the whole way due to the wooden foot bridge (the white rectangle in the middle, left).

My daughter filmed the whole episode, so hopefully I can link to that later.

Here is where we emerged back to "real" roads

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