1.9 miles from Blood Brook Road to the Summit
 Updated map coming soon.  Hiking description has been updated.

 This trail runs partly through the Fairlee Town Forest and partly through land protected by the Trust for Public Land that will become part of the Brushwood Forest, a 3-town forest including lands in Fairlee, West Fairlee, and Bradford.  The views from the grassy summit are excellent.

  Park along Blood Brook Road where the trail crosses.  Follow the logging road/snowmobile trail east.  Follow this snowmobile trail for a half mile and turn left onto the trail in the woods.  Turn left and climb moderately. Join a woods road and continue climbing.  Turn right off of woods road and onto trail.  Turn right over a dry gully and continue climbing moderately until you join another woods road.  Turn left off of woods road back

onto the trail and climb moderately.  Turn right and switchback across the hillside, climbing over and through several gullies.  Trail then switchbacks sharply to the left and crosses through a spectacular hardwood forest.  Turn right into a ravine.  Trail climbs gently  along the western flank of the ridge before turning right and climbing up a short staircase.  The trail then follows the mountain's contour until it turns to the right, crosses through berry bushes and saplings, and emerges from the woods onto   a snowmobile trail.  Turn right and continue to the summit.  From the summit, you can follow the blue blazes down to the Lake Morey Road (to the boat launch), or you can return the way you came.

   

 

 
 
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