Groomers Ready!

Took the groomers out last week, yes that's plural. We bought a 1998? Pisten Bully PB240 over the summer. Both machines are in great working order and are cleaned up and ready to go. The older PB170 will be our back-up groomer. You need a secondary and tertiary back-up on just about everything up here to play it safe.

This years trails are forever changing, just got word that the State may or may not be cutting around the village........again, maybe, not sure. So that means re-routing 2-3 miles of trail, fun fun!

Beautiful crisp Fall day, 26F and a hard frost on everything.

webcam

Greetings Surprenant Family

After viewing your web cam almost everyday for months, I decided I should write and thank you for providing such a great web cam. Your web cam is the best quality I have seen, and I am just tickled that I can be sitting here in Haverhill Mass. go online and see real time quality images of Humming birds and the mighty Mt. Katadin way up in the great North woods... Wow !!!! Now let me reward you with a poem from some Journals I purchased many years ago written by George S. Bliss in 1925 during a fishing Trip to Daicey Pond ( Yorks Twin Pine camps ). I hope you enjoy.



My Host is old Katahdin
He Doffs his cap of cloud
To pledge the royal bounty
He give his heart a-vowed.

Thrice welcome to the Mountain
Thrice welcome to the glen !
By rod and pack and paddle,
The woods are your again !
Again my winds shall call you,
My trails shall tempt your feet,
I'll pour you laughing water
And berries cool and sweet.
In shack or rocky shelter
Where you may chose to house,
Your couch shall be of bracken,
Your bed of balsam boughs.
And when the mood shall move you
To cast the feathered lures,
Katahdin brook, my darling,
And forty ponds are yours !
There's Windypitch and Grassey,
There's lilypad and lost,
The deer shall stand before you,
The Dappled fawns shall play,
While overhead shall banter
The squirrel and the jay.
And peace shall be your comrad
on every bowered quest;
And through my darkening tree tops
The stars shall watch your rest,
Above the seaward rivers,
Above the highland plain,
My host is old Katahdin
Among the pines of Maine.

( George S. Bliss )
( From the York's Journal 1925 )
Thanks again
From Charlie LeBlanc
Haverhill Massachusetts.