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Posts Tagged 'Pitcher Mountain'
Time for a Climb
Posted in Nature, Scenery / Landscapes, tagged Black Bear, Blueberries, Canon EOS Rebel T6, Early Spring Plants, fire tower, Hobblebush, Lichens, Mountain Climbing in NH, Native Plants, Nature, New Hampshire, NH, Pitcher Mountain, Ranger Cabin, Scattered Rock Posy Lichen, Spring, Spring Beauties, Stoddard New Hampshire, Violets, Wild Sarsaparilla on May 22, 2019| 40 Comments »
John Muir once said "The mountains are calling and I must go." To be honest I never paid much attention to that statement until the mountains started calling me. And as anyone who has climbed them knows, they do call; they kind of get under your skin and won't stop calling until you answer them, so last Saturday I drove north to Stoddard to climb Pitcher Mountain. Pitcher Mountain gets its name from the Pitcher family, who settled this land in the 1700s. As mountains go it's a relatively easy climb, even for someone who uses inhalers as I do. The last time I climbed here was in January. On this day the weather was considerably better and the spring greens and singing birds reminded me what a wonderful thing this life is.
Pitcher Mountain is known for its blueberry bushes; thousand of them grow here and people come from all over to pick them. On this day the buds hadn't even opened yet, showing what a difference elevation makes. Down in Keene they're in full bloom.
Hobblebushes (Viburnum lantanoides) grew beside the trail and how very beautiful they were. Though like blueberries they're also in full bloom in Keene, up here the fertile center flowers hadn't shown yet. Only the much larger infertile outer flowers had opened.
One of the reasons I wanted to come here was to become more familiar with my new camera. Anyone who knows their way around a camera should be able to use just about any camera handed to them, but they all have their little quirks that take time to learn and iron out. This one doesn't have image stabilization but the lenses do and that's something I've never encountered. On this day the sun was bright and the contrast high, and that's a challenge for any camera but I thought this one performed reasonably well as this shot of a wild sarsaparilla plant (Aralia nudicaulis) and its shadow shows. The light green oval leaves belong to Canada mayflower, which will be blooming soon.
My first stop along the trail is always the meadow, where if you look behind you, you can often find a good view of Mount Monadnock over in Jaffrey. It was fairly good on this day, I thought.
The meadow is also where you get your first inkling of how high up you are. The views seem to go on forever.
The meadow is large and sometimes you can find it filled with beautiful Scottish highland cattle. I've often thought that they must have the best views of anybody who comes here.
The trail is in a U shape and you take 2 left turns to reach the summit. After the meadow the trail, which is actually a road used by the forest rangers, gets very rocky. There are also lots of exposed roots so if you come here you would do well to wear good hiking boots with plenty of ankle support.
I was stunned to see spring beauties blooming (Claytonia virginica) up here because I've climbed this mountain more times than I can remember and I've never seen them before. My timing was off, that's all, and I might have missed them by a day or a week. There was a nice little colony of them in this spot just below the summit. Tucked in snug they were protected from the worst of the wind.
Violets and strawberries grew along the trail and even down the center of it, where many had been stepped on.
The fire tower, manned on occasion, loomed at the summit. This is the second tower on this spot; the first burned in one of the largest forest fires this region has ever seen. That's why I call it a monument to irony.
The old fire warden's cabin still stood solidly but there was something different about it.
The difference was a gaping black hole where the last time I was here a board covered the window. It looked like vandals had been here but with so many people climbing this mountain I can't imagine them getting away with it.
I don't condone vandalism but realistically bears have been known to break into cabins countless times in this area so it's anyone's guess as to how this happened. I wasn't about to pass up what was probably an only chance to see inside a ranger's cabin though, so I turned on the flash and took a couple of photos. It looked like it had been furnished in the 1940s, and that was no surprise. I'm assuming there was no running water here because there is a privy in the back, but there was electricity.
If when you reach the tower you turn almost 180 degrees you'll see another decent view of Mount Monadnock. You can also see the meadow in this view. On this day it was so gusty up here I could hardly stand still. I wanted to crouch on the ground so the wind couldn't catch me.
But in a way the wind was welcome because it blew away all the black flies that had plagued me all the way up the trail. For those unfamiliar with them black flies are very small biting insects that appear for a few weeks in spring, hatching out of clean running water unlike the mosquito, which hatches out of still, stagnant water. Black flies feed on the blood of mammals for nourishment and they usually come in swarms. Bug spray helps keep them away.
What I call the birdbaths are natural depressions in the stone. With all the rain we've had I doubt they've been dry a day in the past two months. I once sat and watched a dark eyed junco take a bath here, and I was able to get a few shots of it splashing around. The blue of the sky deepens as it is reflected in these pools and it makes a simple puddle as beautiful as any jewel.
There are lots of lichens growing on the rocks of the summit and one of my favorites is the scattered rock posy (Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans.) They can be quite small and difficult to see without magnification, but it's worth looking for them because they almost always have their bright orange apothecia showing. They like to grow on stone, especially granite, in full sun. They don't seem to change their color when they dry out like many other lichens do.
I always tell myself that I'm going to come up here with a compass and a topographical map so I can name all of the surrounding mountains but I never do. I don't suppose it's that important anyway. I'd rather just sit and look around, especially when I have the whole mountain to myself as I did on this day. I expected it to be crowded up here but there wasn't a soul in sight. I wondered if the flies kept people away.
It's hard to tell from these photos but there is still snow on the ski slopes over there in Vermont.
I stayed on the summit for awhile trying different things with the new camera until my legs felt less rubbery and then I hit the trail again. I don't know why going down always seems harder than going up, but my legs usually let me know that they aren't thrilled by it.
The meadow is just to the left of the trail in that previous shot and as I looked out into it I thought a highland cattle calf had somehow gotten loose and was in the meadow eating grass but then wait a minute; that wasn't a calf. As soon as it looked at me and sniffed the air with its snout I knew it was a black bear. And it was another big one. Though it might look far away in this photo it could have reached me in seconds. Black bears can move incredibly fast; 50 feet per second in fact, so running from one is pointless.
I'll be the first to say that this is one of the worst photos I've ever shown on this blog but you can clearly see the roundish ears and long tan snout of a bear. You don't have much time to fiddle around with a camera when a bear is staring at you like this and I didn't have the zoom lens with me anyway, so I just took a couple of quick shots. I just went through this with another bear in Westmoreland and that one didn't scare any more than this one did. It stood and stared and sniffed, just like this one. And just like that time once again I was the only human around, carrying no bear spray and with only one way out. Luckily this one turned into the forest while I wondered what I was going do if it started toward me, so I hoofed it back down the mountain somewhat faster than I usually do, slipping on loose stones and tripping over roots the whole way. It's hard to walk downhill when you're looking back over your shoulder I've discovered, and I don't recommend it.
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. Alfred North Whitehead
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Time for a Climb
Posted in Nature, Scenery / Landscapes, tagged Black Knot on Cherry, Common Goldspeck Lichen, Lichens, Mount Monadnock, Mountain Ash, Mountain Climbing in New Hampshire, Native Plants, Nature, New Hampshire, NH, Olympus Stylus TG-870, Pitcher Mountain, Pitcher Mountain Fire Tower, Red Maple, Red Maple Target Canker, Spring, Stoddard New Hampshire, Striped Maple Bud Break, Tile Lichen, Winter Hiking, Winter Woods on April 28, 2018| 23 Comments »
Last Sunday I woke with an urge to climb, so I headed 25 miles north to Stoddard where Pitcher Mountain lives. Since we have no snow in Keene I assumed there would be no snow there, but I was wrong. It was another one of those "what was I thinking?" moments.
But all in all the trail wasn't bad because it was snow instead of ice. I stopped to get a photo of target canker on a red maple (Acer rubrum.) If I understand what I've read correctly red maples are the only trees that get this canker. It makes the tree's bark form bullseye shaped raised plates that look like a target, but it doesn't really hurt the tree. The circular plates are the tree's response to a fungus that invades the healthy bark and kills it. During the next season the tree responds with a new layer of bark and cork (callus) to contain the fungus. In the next dormant season the fungus again attacks and kills more bark and on it goes, a seasonal alternation of pathogen invasion and host defense response which creates concentric ridges of callus tissue; a target canker. Finally the fungus gives up or dies off and the tree grows on. Red maples have beautiful deep red flowers and the trees often grow in large colonies, so I was hoping to see huge swaths of red from the summit.
I also stopped to see a striped maple (Acer pennsylvanicum) that grew along the trail. The two large terminal bud scales had started pulling apart to reveal the bud within, just like they were doing 25 miles and over 1,600 feet lower in Keene. The pink and orange fuzzy buds are very beautiful and I'm getting anxious to see them. It won't be long now.
I had to stop at one of my favorite places, which is the pasture about half way up the trail. I always imagine doors being thrown open and a great whooshing sound when I see this view because it's so expansive compared to the close woods where I spend most of my time. It's a peaceful, simple place with just the earth, sky, and you and you can step outside yourself for a while here.
The trail takes a turn after the pasture and gets steeper and rockier as it follows it uphill. On this day I had a choice; mud on one side or snow on the other. I chose the snowy side.
There is a fairly good view of Mount Monadnock from this leg of the trail but low haze often spoils it. It wasn't too bad on this day.
There is a lot of black knot disease on the black cherry trees (Prunus serotina) here and I stopped to look at an example. Black knot is caused by the fungus Apiosporina morbosa which can also attack plums, peaches, and apricots. Spores from the fungus are spread by rain or wind and typically will infect trees from April through June on new growth. Infected stems swell up and produce hard black knots like those in the above photo. The disease can eventually kill the tree so infected limbs should be pruned off 2-4 inches below the knots and buried or burned before bud break the following spring.
This is what black knot can do to a fully grown black cherry. This is a wound that never heals and on a tree this age and size the disease is impossible to control and the trees should be destroyed so the fungus can't release anymore spores. If this photo looks a little strange it's because I had to use the flash because it was so shady here.
You can get a glimpse of the fire tower from a good distance away before the trees leaf out, but the glimpse signals the start of the steepest part of the climb. The trail had a little snow on it but the summit was snow free, bare granite as usual.
The old forest fire warden's cabin still stands but each year it seems to lean into the mountainside just a little more. Staying up here must have been hard work no matter what time of year it was.
Pitcher Mountain is one of just a handful of places I know of where Mountain ash trees (Sorbus americana) grow naturally. These trees are easy to identify when they don't have leaves by their big black buds. This example was just starting to turn green. Mountain ash is used ornamentally because of its white flowers in late spring and bright orange berries in the fall, but it is a native tree. Native Americans made a tea from the bark and berries of this tree to treat coughs, and as a pain killer. They also ate the died and ground berries for food, adding them to soups and stews. The berries are said to be very tart and have an unpleasant taste when unripe.
The fire tower was unmanned and so was the summit so I had the whole rock pile to myself, which is a very rare thing. You find people on most mountaintops in this area and popular ones like Mount Monadnock can at times seem as busy as a Manhattan sidewalk. I call the fire tower on Pitcher Mountain a monument to irony because the original wooden tower built in 1915 burned in April of 1940, in the most destructive forest fire to ever strike this part of the state. Twenty seven thousand acres burned, including the tower and all of the trees on the summit.
A couple of weeks ago we had strong winds with 60 mile per hour gusts and a lot of trees fell in certain areas, so it's probably a good thing that the fire tower is fastened to the granite of the summit with several stout cables. The wind that day must have made it impossible to stand on the summit. I can imagine the cables vibrating like violin strings in weather like that.
The hill that I call the near hill might be the closest but it would still be quite a hike to reach it. I was surprised by the amount of snow still on it.
I love seeing the blue hills off in the distance and though I don't climb for the view they do make it much more enjoyable. In case you're wondering about my not climbing to see the view, if I did I'd be disappointed probably 80% of the time because you never know what haze, humidity, or weather in general will do to it. For instance on this day, though it looks like I could see clear to California, I couldn't see the windmills over on Bean Mountain just a few miles away.
But I could see the shading on the hills and this is something I find very pleasing. I sat and admired them for a while.
I could also see ski areas on several distant mountains, none of which I know the name of. Skiers must be enjoying some fine spring skiing this year.
Common goldspeck lichens (Candelariella vitellina) grow profusely all over the bedrock up here. This crustose lichen is very granular and is often busy producing spores, but I didn't see any of its fruiting bodies (apothecia) on this day. These lichens were once used to dye wool in Sweden but I can't imagine how they got them off the rocks. Crustose lichens usually can't be removed from the substrate they grow on without damaging it in some way.
I'm not sure what it was but the sun brought out golden highlights in this tiny insect's wings. It was hanging on desperately trying not to be blown away in the strong wind, so I was able to get a shot of it. I'd guess that it was hardly more than a quarter inch long.
Tile lichens are areolate lichens, which are made up of many little lumps or islands. In the example above the black parts are its apothecia and the white parts are the body (Thallus.) The apothecia are even with or slightly below the surface of the thallus. Tile lichens grow on exposed rock in full sun and will even grow in winter if the temperature is slightly above freezing. I think this one might be Lecidea tessellata but with 136 species of tile lichens I could easily be wrong.
The natural depressions in the bedrock that I call birdbaths always have water in them, even when we had a drought two years ago, and that seems strange to me. What I think doesn't matter though, because the birds do use them; last year I watched a dark eyed junco bathe in this small pool. I was a little disappointed at not seeing the large swaths of flowering red maples that I hoped to see from up here but even so I saw plenty of other beautiful things, and it was a great day for a climb.
Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve; they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. ~Anatoli Boukreev
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Time for a Climb
Posted in Nature, Scenery / Landscapes, tagged Canon SX40 HS, Common Goldspeck Lichen, Dark Eyed Junco, Early Spring Plants, Hobblebush Buds, Lichens, Mount Monadnock, Native Plants, Nature, New Hampshire, NH, Olympus Stylus TG-870, Pitcher Mountain, red maples, Spring, Stoddard New Hampshire, Tile Lichen on April 22, 2017| 26 Comments »
At this time every year when the red maples bloom I get the urge to show you what a forest full of millions of red maple flowers looks like from above, so I pick a mountain and climb up above the treetops. This year I chose Pitcher Mountain in Stoddard because it offers a 360 degree view. The above photo shows the start of the trail. It was a sunny, hot Sunday that was supposed to have temperatures in the mid-80s F. It proved true; it reached 85 at my house and the weather people say it was the warmest Easter in 30 years. I've never had to use air conditioning in April, but I thought about it that day.
I've climbed this mountain fairly regularly for years now and have apparently walked right by this hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides) growing right beside the trail every time. The things I don't see often amaze me as much as the things I see do. Hobblebush is one of our most beautiful native viburnums. The name hobblebush comes from the way the low growing branches, unseen under last year's fallen leaves, can trip up or "hobble" a horse or hiker.
A pileated woodpecker had cut this tree right in half looking for insects. I've been cutting and splitting wood at work and the other day I split a log that had a huge colony of big black carpenter ants in it. A pileated woodpecker would have been very happy to have pecked at that tree.
An old pine tree had broken off halfway up its trunk and fallen onto the side of the trail. We've had some strong winds lately so I wasn't surprised.
I turned about halfway up the trail to take a photo of Mount Monadnock and I could see by the haze that the views wouldn't be good, but I wasn't here for the views; I was here for the red haze produced by millions of red maples. I noticed that there was still snow at the edge of the meadow.
There was even more snow in this part of the meadow. It was hard to believe after a week of warm temperatures and such a hot day as this one. The haze made this view look almost surreal.
I love to see the shading on the distant hills. I saw something similar done in fabric once and it was a very beautiful piece of artwork. The idea must have come from a scene like this one.
Before you know it you can see the fire tower through the trees. This means you're very close to the summit, but it also means you'll climb the steepest part of the trail to reach it.
I hoped that all of those trees with bare branches would look like someone had washed them with red watercolor, but I'm not seeing that. My color finding software sees various shades of red in small amounts, but more gray. There are blueberry bushes and mountain ash trees out there too, and they also have red buds.
I got distracted by the clouds for a time.
The near hill showed what looked to be smudges of red but still not what I expected.
The wind whistled loudly through the steel structure of the fire tower. One day last year was the only time I've ever seen this tower manned. The New Hampshire Forestry Service lets people into the tower and quite a few people were going up on the day I was here. Many were children and I didn't want them to miss their chance so I didn't bother trying to get in. This tower was built to replace the original wooden tower that burned in the 1940 Stoddard-Marlow fire. It was the biggest fire in the region's history.
The tower is anchored to the bedrock by stout cables and it's a good thing because the wind was so strong I couldn't stand still swayed in the breeze. It was just as strong the last time I came here and each time was the strongest wind I've seen here.
Common goldspeck lichen (Candelariella vitellina) is a crustose lichen that is very granular. Its round, almost microscopic fruiting bodies (apothecia) are hard to see in the photo but they are there. This lichen contains a yellow pigment called calysin and was once used in Sweden to dye wool yellow. It must have been difficult scraping it off the rocks that it grew on and I would imagine that yellow wool in Sweden was very expensive then.
An areolate lichen is one in which the body is made up of many little lumps or islands. The tile lichen (Lecidea tessellata) in the above photo fits that description well. Its black fruiting bodies (apothecia) are even with, or slightly sunken into the surrounding body (thallus). There are 136 species of tile lichens and identification is difficult without a microscope, so the species name in this case is a guess on my part. Tile lichens grow on rock in full sun, winter and summer.
Depressions in the stone catch water and I've always called them birdbaths. On this day there was actually a bird there, drinking and bathing.
I think it was a dark eyed junco but I don't know birds well so I hope someone more knowledgeable in the subject might correct me if I'm wrong. It was gray on top and white underneath, and was just a little smaller than a robin.
Though the birdbath looks quite big in the photo it isn't more than 5 inches deep and hardly as big in diameter as an adult bicycle tire. There seems to always be water in it no matter how long we go without rain.
In the end I didn't get the photo of the red maples that I had hoped but it wasn't because there aren't any red maples here. The target canker on the bark of this tree tells me it's a red maple because, if I understand what I've read correctly, red maple is the only maple that gets target canker. I think, though there are plenty of red maples here, the buds simply hadn't opened yet. Though the buds have fully opened in Keene Pitcher Mountain lies far enough north of town to make a difference, so maybe they were still closed.
But I still had plan B, which was to visit these red maples that grow along a very busy stretch of highway in Keene. I couldn't show them from above but at least they give some idea of what we see here each spring.
Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve; they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. ~Anatoli Boukreev
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Time for a Climb
Posted in Nature, Scenery / Landscapes, tagged Canon SX40 HS, Common Goldspeck Lichen, Keene, Lichens, Mount Ascutney, Mount Kearsarge, Mount Monadnock, Mountain Ash, Native Plants, Nature, New Hampshire, NH, Olympus Stylus TG-870, Pileated Woodpecker, Pitcher Mountain, Red Maple, Rim Lichen, Winter Climbing, Winter Hiking, Winter Woods on February 25, 2017| 26 Comments »
I've been itching to make a climb for a while now, but ice and deep snow have made forest travel very difficult. Many of the parking spots aren't plowed in winter so even if you can find a good place to climb there's a good chance that you won't be able to park anywhere near it. My solution to the problem was Pitcher Mountain in Stoddard, which always gets plowed and is usually an easy, gentle climb.
One look at the trail told me this would probably not be an easy, gentle climb. There was a good foot of snow on the trail and it wasn't as hard packed as I had hoped.
It wasn't as bad as ice but it was quite warm so the snow was wet, slushy and slippery. If you stepped off the hard packed part of the trail you found yourself up to your knees in wet snow. I could see that some had worn snowshoes and others had worn spikes, but I wore hiking boots.
Woodchips on the snow usually mean one thing when the bears are sleeping; pileated woodpeckers have been busy.
They did a real job on this dead birch. It had been shredded and almost cut in half.
Up ahead a tree had fallen across the trail. This was a good opportunity to stop and catch my breath.
I always like to look to see what was growing in the top of a newly fallen tree. This one was covered with what I think were rim lichens (Lecanora epibryon.) There are many different rim lichens and I think most of them have brownish fruiting bodies (Apothecia.)
Its buds told me that the fallen tree was a red maple (Acer rubrum.)
After climbing over the fallen maple I slogged on to the Mount Monadnock viewing spot and had another rest. The mountain lies almost directly south of Pitcher Mountain and the bright afternoon sun coming at the camera made this a difficult shot.
I always stop to see the edge of the meadow rising up into the sky. It's impossible to explain how such an empty place makes me feel but after being in the woods for most of my life such a view is foreign enough to almost make it seem like I'm on another planet. It's a pleasurable experience that's always hard to turn away from. French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher Emile Durkheim once said: "One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it." I think he was right.
Though I've seen photos of Scottish highland cattle in this meadow I've never seen the real thing. They're not common here so I'd like to see them in person someday.
The old fire warden's cabin looks like it'll make it through another winter. It's too bad a use can't be found for it, it has been empty and unused for years. The cabin marks the steepest part of the climb so I sat on the porch for a bit to catch my breath. It looked like a few others had the same idea. Climbing in this kind of snow was hard work.
The fire tower marks the summit. They let people go up in it when it's manned but I haven't seen anyone in it since last summer. This is actually the second tower on this mountain. In April of 1940 the first wooden fire tower built in 1915 burned in a fire that destroyed 27,000 acres of forest, including the fire tower and all of the trees on the summit. It was the most destructive fire in the region's history but it left the Summit of Pitcher Mountain with a full 360 degree view. That and the wild blueberries that grow here make it a popular spot.
The fire tower is pinned to the bedrock for good reason; it was windier here on this day than I've ever seen it and there were two or three gusts that I seriously thought would blow me over. At least it wasn't cold, but I still didn't stay long.
To the north of Pitcher Mountain 12 wind turbines stretch over several ridgelines in Lempster. These examples are part of the first windfarm in New Hampshire. They looked to be spinning quickly on this day.
I think this might be Mount Ascutney ski resort in Vermont to the northwest. Chances are it was doing a brisk business on such a warm day.
I think this is Mount Kearsarge in Wilmot, New Hampshire to the northeast. It's a very pretty mountain.
I call this hill the near hill. After looking at several maps I still haven't found its name, so it might not have one. It looks very close but it would be quite a hike to get to the top of it from here.
Common gold speck lichen (Candelariella vitellina) grows all over the exposed bedrock up here. This lichen contains a yellow pigment called calysin and was once used in Sweden to dye wool yellow. It must have been difficult scraping it off the rocks that it grew on and I would imagine that yellow wool in Sweden was very expensive then.
Common goldspeck lichen is a crustose lichen that seems very granular when you get a close look at it. It seems to do very well here; I'm sure that it must get plenty of sunshine.
I've seen plenty of scattered rock posy lichens (Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans) but never one with a spore producing apothecium in the shape of a heart. These lichens are very small so I didn't see this myself until I saw the photo. Scattered rock posy is both beautiful and unusual with its brain like body (Thallus) and orange fruiting discs (Apothecia.) I always find them growing on stone in full sun. This is a lichen that never seems to stop producing spores; its orange pad like apothecia are always there.
I've probably walked by this mountain ash tree 50 times but never noticed it, and that's why I follow the same trails again and again. You just can't see everything in one or two visits. It was a tough slog going up and coming down the mountain in the wet snow but I'm glad I did it and glad I didn't miss these large beet colored buds.
We don't stop hiking because we grow old – we grow old because we stop hiking. ~ Finis Mitchell
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Posted in Nature, Scenery / Landscapes, tagged Beech Trees, Canon SX40 HS, Crater Lichen, Fall Foliage, Fall Hiking, Highbush Blueberry, Keene, Lichens, Native Plants, Nature, New Hampshire, NH, Olympus Stylus TG-870, Pitcher Mountain, Pitcher Mountain Fire Tower, Scattered Rock Posy Lichen, Stoddard New Hampshire, Striped Maple Tree on October 22, 2016| 40 Comments »
Each year at this time I start thinking that if I could just get up above the trees the colors would be better or brighter somehow, but they never seem to be and I've never been really happy with any photo that I've taken that way. But maybe this time would be different, I hoped. The weatherman told me that we were at the peak of our fall colors, so last Saturday I decided to climb Pitcher Mountain in Stoddard to try again.
I kept seeing dark spots on the fading, pale orange striped maple leaves (Acer pensylvanicum) so I had to take a closer look. The quarter size spots were made up of many smaller specks.
I haven't found a reference to anything similar so I can't say what they are at this point. They looked like hardened drops of a liquid but I doubt the leaves would weep in such concentrated areas and not all over. If you know what they are I'd love to hear from you.
Something ate these little brown mushrooms and tore the stems when they did so. I've never seen this before and I'm not sure what animal would do it. There is everything from chipmunks to moose to bears in these woods so without tracks or other clues it's hard to know. I do know that many kinds of little brown mushrooms can make a person very sick, and some can kill.
A pasture appears on the right side of the trail and I always stop here for a breather. The farm that owns this land raises Scottish highland cattle and my hopes of seeing them were raised by the regular snapping of an electric fence at just about knee and waist level, but the cattle never showed up. I had to pay attention so I didn't get tangled in that fence with my metal monopod, so maybe it's a good thing they didn't.
The trail takes a sharp 90 degree left turn and parallels the pasture for a time. It also becomes quite rocky in this stretch. Not far after the turn, maybe a hundred feet or so, there is a break in the trees and brush to the right. If you follow this short path after just a few steps you come to a good view of Mount Monadnock on the right. And the electric fence in front of you.
The reason I chose Pitcher Mountain is because it has a full 360 degrees of viewing area on its summit. If the light is harsh in one direction as it was in this shot of Mount Monadnock from the trail, it often isn't quite so harsh in a different direction. At least that's what I was hoping. Finding correct exposure settings can be tough with some colors in such bright light.
Beech trees are starting to turn and they seem to be right on schedule. Though they are among the last to turn along with the oaks, most had turned fully by Halloween last year.
Before too long the fire tower glimpsed through the trees tells you that you're very near the summit.
The old fire warden's cabin might be in for a rough ride this winter if nature decides to make up the 15 inch rain deficit with snow. Though I've climbed up here in the winter several times if that happens I probably won't be up here to see it.
You can turn and look back just above the warden's cabin to see the pasture from above, along with Mount Monadnock in the background. The view from the summit to Monadnock would be almost directly south.
The fire tower is the second one to stand on this peak. Ironically the first wooden tower built in 1915 burned in April of 1940 in a fire which destroyed 27,000 acres of forest, including the tower and all of the trees on the summit. It was the most destructive fire in the region's history. Stout cables keep this one from blowing off the mountain but there is still little to protect it from a large fire.
If you're standing where I was in the previous photo looking at the tower and walk around to the left side of it, what I call the near hill seems to be close enough to touch. I don't know its name or if it even has one.
It was hard to pay attention to far off colors when colors like this were so close by on the summit.
Scattered rock posy lichens (Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans) added to the orange colors of fall. I was thinking one day about how we rarely see orange in nature for most of the year but then all of the sudden we are saturated with it in the fall. The orange pad like parts of this lichen are its fruiting bodies (apothecia) and the grayish, brain like part is the body (thallus.)
Black and white crater lichens seemed to stare back at me from the stones. I think they are Diploschistes scruposus, simply called crater lichen after their cup shaped black fruiting bodies (apothecia,) which are surrounded by a stark white or gray body (thallus.) They grow on exposed rock all over the earth, even in the Polar Regions.
Pitcher Mountain is known for its blueberries, and they turn a beautiful red in the fall. They supply most of the red that can be seen in the near distance in many of these photos.
There were a surprising amount of berries that the birds and pickers had missed, but they were shriveled.
As far as the eye could see the trees were turning. I'm surprised to see how many more deciduous trees than evergreens there are in this photo.
I'm not sure what the name of the mountain in the distance is but it seemed to be higher than the one I was standing on and it wasn't Mount Monadnock. It was quite far away but unfortunately I didn't pay any attention to what direction it was in.
This birch tree was almost leafless but its comrades more than made up for its lack of color. It seemed a kind of exclamation point, as if colors like these needed to be emphasized.
I think this photo is my personal favorite from that day because it has all of the colors I saw in it. It also shows the incredible beauty that can be found up here.
It seemed strange to see the natural birdbath full of water in the middle of a drought; it must have rained recently. I'm sure the many birds that I heard are very grateful.
I'm sorry that this post was so photo heavy but our autumn "season" is really very short and we're lucky if we see three weeks of the kind of colors that I saw on this day, so I went a bit overboard. Though I don't usually climb strictly for the views on this day that's what I came for and they were very good, with little haze.
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Posted in Nature, Scenery / Landscapes, tagged Blueberry Picking, Bush Honeysuckle, Canon SX40 HS, Common Goldspeck Lichen, Meadowsweet, Mountain Climbing, Mountain White Cinquefoil, Native Plants, Nature, New Hampshire, NH, NH Fire Towers, Olympus Stylus TG-180, Pitcher Mountain, Stoddard NH on July 20, 2016| 42 Comments »
It's blueberry picking time in these parts so last Saturday I thought I'd visit one of our most popular blueberry picking sites and get a climb in as well. The day was supposed to be hot and humid as so many have lately so I got up early and headed out to Pitcher Mountain in Stoddard; about a half hour north of Keene.
Since blueberries cost as much as $3.50 a pint in stores $1.50 a quart is quite a good deal, but of course you have to pick them yourself. Payment is often trusted to the honor system.
The trail is a drivable road to a point; wide with a relatively easy grade. If I was 20 again it might take me 15 minutes to make it to the top but these days I find interesting things to photograph along the way, so it often takes me twice that amount of time. Or maybe that's just an excuse to stop and catch my breath.
I've climbed this mountain so many times that I really don't know the number, but I've never seen bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera) here before. On this day it was everywhere, all along the trail. This illustrates perfectly why I follow the same trails over and over; you simply can't see it all in one hike and sometimes I wonder if you could say that you had seen it all even after 100 hikes.
Bush honeysuckle flowers are tubular and pale greenish yellow at first before changing to orange or purplish red. This is the first time I've ever gotten a photo of them that I could be satisfied with. The long red mushroom shaped central pistil is a good sign that you're seeing bush honeysuckle. In the fall the leaves turn from green to yellow to red. Bumblebees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds visit the flowers and moose and deer like to browse on the branches.
There is always a feeling of having stepped through a doorway into another world when I see this view. After living in the closeness of the forest for so long here is suddenly open space, and it seems vast and infinite. I have to stand here and stare foe awhile trying to take in the immensity, and if I remember I'll take a photo.
The old road gets a little rocky from this point on but I've seen trucks drive up it. Walking up it is a little trickier, but not too bad.
I keep hoping to see the Scottish highland cattle that live in the fields that border the trail but I haven't seen them yet.
As if to live up to its name meadowsweet grew beside the meadow. This one had a blush of pink, which I don't think I've ever seen. I just found out that there is a native meadowsweet called Spirea alba and an introduced species called Filipendula ulmaria. In photos they look identical, so that will complicate things somewhat. It looks like I've got some studying to do. I also discovered that I misidentified the scientific name of the meadowsweet that appeared in my last flower post.
Before you know it the fire tower appears above the trees. The last time I was here it was manned and someone was washing the windows, but I didn't see anyone this time. One benefit of climbing early is the sun doesn't glare off those windows.
The old cabin seems to tilt more to the left each time I see it, but it's hard to see in this photo. It's only a matter of time until a snowy winter takes it down, I imagine. I'm guessing that it was probably built so the fire lookouts could stay around the clock. It makes me wonder what living up here was like. For a lover of solitude it must have been just about perfect, even without indoor plumbing.
The 5 acres at the very top of Pitcher Mountain are owned by the New Hampshire Forestry Commission. They first built a wooden fire tower here in 1915 but in April of 1940 a fire destroyed 27,000 acres of forest, including the fire tower and all of the trees on the summit. It was the most destructive fire in the region's history. The present steel tower is a replacement and, because of the lack of trees, offers a full 360 degree view of the surrounding hills. Visitors are sometimes welcomed in to see the views.
It takes some serious hardware to keep the fire tower from blowing off the mountain. Strong steel cables pin it to the bedrock in several locations.
The wind turbines over on Bear Mountain in Lempster, New Hampshire were visible. It's often so hazy that they can't be seen at all. As the trees in the foreground of this photo show it was quite breezy on this day and the windmills were pointed right into it. There was a time or two when strong gusts came through and I wondered if they might blow me over.
I don't know the name of this hill that is nearest to the mountain but I like the way it rises out of the surrounding forest like an ancient burial mound. It's hard to believe that all I could see was burned and treeless less than a century ago. Nature heals itself quickly.
Clouds were casting shadows on the forest below and I sat for a while watching them move over the landscape. I used to like doing the same when I was a boy. I didn't notice the many undulating hills and valleys rising and falling off into the distance until I saw this photo.
Blueberry bushes are everywhere you look here, all along the trail and all over the summit, and you can often hear blueberry pickers that you can't see. As this photo shows the berries aren't quite fully ripe but I was still surprised that I didn't meet any pickers this day. In fact it seemed like I had the whole mountain to myself. Black bears love blueberries too and I've heard that they've been seen here during berry season, but I didn't see any of them either.
Common goldspeck lichens (Candelariella vitellina) cover the bare bedrock in several places. At least I think that's what they are; there is an alpine species that apparently looks much the same unless you have a microscope to see the spores with. My new camera does well with macros but it can't get quite close enough to see lichen spores.
The body (Thallus) of the goldspeck lichen is kind of egg yolk yellow and the tiny round fruiting bodies (Apothecia) have a slightly raised rim. This is a crustose lichen that I usually find on rock, but it can also grow on wood, bark and soil. I know of a few trees that are covered with it right in downtown Keene. Unlike many lichens it doesn't seem to mind car exhaust.
A flower I've never seen grows in the cracks in the rocks at the summit and I was amazed that I had never noticed it before. Mountain white cinquefoil (Potentilla tridentata) is also called three toothed cinquefoil because of the three large teeth at the end of each leaf. The white 5 petaled flowers are small; maybe a half inch across on a good day. They are said to bloom for 2 or 3 months and make an excellent choice for a sunny rock garden that doesn't get too hot, because they don't like heat. They must be struggling this summer because it has been hot. We've had a long string of mid-80 to 90 degree days.
There had been a thunderstorm the night before and it helped fill the natural birdbath a little, but the darker line on the stone in this photo shows how much has evaporated. I love how the sky reflects so much blue into this small puddle.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~Eleanora Duse
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Yesterday I saw Leave No Trace, starring Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie.
Will (Foster) is a veteran suffering from PTSD, raising his teenage daughter in the woods of a public park outside Portland, Oregon. Tom (McKenzie) accepts this life with grace as it's all she knows. We assume mom has passed away, but she's only mentioned briefly, quite vaguely, so we're not sure.
When Tom gets spotted by a hiker, their life is exposed and social services relocates them to temporary housing on a farm. There, Tom begins to make friends with nearby kids her age and Will works on the owner's tree farm in exchange for lodging. Tom loves it and Will hates it.
After just a few weeks, Will insists they leave and soon enough, they're back to a transient lifestyle. For the first time Tom lets Will know that she was happy with the structure and stability of the farm life. Though it pains him to make her suffer because of his issues, that doesn't prevent him from caving and they continue to press on.
The film is both tender and excruciating to watch. This father and daughter are genuine friends, and their love runs deep. Tom has learned amazing survival skills from Will, but his unreasonable need to be off the grid is unfair to her and she comes to realize that. Though his actions make you angry, you feel for him and that's a testament to the pain that comes through Ben Foster's eyes in every scene.
Tom McKenzie is also convincing as a young girl who just wants more out of life, but doesn't want to hurt her father.
If you're looking for a film that moves along at a quiet, but important-to-the-story pace and also makes you re-think every homeless person you encounter, give this a chance. It may just bring perspective along with the tears.

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Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn Chinese or French by having the instruction CDs play while you sleep. If any learning happens that way, most scientists say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, not causing nouns and verbs to seep into a sound-asleep mind.
But a new study about a different kind of audio approach during sleep gives insight into how the sleeping brain works, and may eventually come in handy to people studying a language, cramming for a test or memorizing lines in a play.
Scientists at Northwestern University reported that playing specific sounds while people slept helped them remember more of what they had learned before they fell sleep, to the point where memories of individual facts were enhanced.
In a study published online Thursday by the journal Science, researchers taught people to move 50 pictures to their correct locations on a computer screen. Each picture was accompanied by a related sound, like a meow for a cat and whirring for a helicopter.
Then, 12 subjects took a nap, during which 25 of the sounds were played along with white noise. When they awoke, none realized that the sounds had been played or could guess which ones had been used. Yet almost all remembered more precisely the computer locations of the pictures associated with the 25 sounds that had been played while they slept, doing less well placing the other 25 pictures.Continue reading the main story
"We were able to cue people to specific information they had learned," said Ken A. Paller, a cognitive neuroscientist at Northwestern and co-author of the study. "The thinking is that during sleep, memory consolidation is going on and that rehearsal is a good way to strengthen memories.
"We showed that you can get information in during sleep using the auditory system and that you can cue that rehearsal by providing sounds specific to each episode of learning."
The study adds a dimension to a theory that sleep allows the brain to process and consolidate memories.
A 2007 study found that people who were given whiffs of rose scent as they learned a task remembered the task better when they also inhaled rose scent while sleeping. But the new research suggests that individual memories can be explicitly singled out for strengthening.
"We haven't before been able to manipulate very specific memories," said Matthew P. Walker, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the study.
"If you can experimentally amplify the memory-reinforcing process by forcing those sounds back into the brain while we're asleep," Dr. Walker said, it "may actually give us some clues as to what that mechanism is."
Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard also not involved in the study, noted that the researchers did not play literal phrases recapping the memory, like "the cat is in the lower left," but instead sound cues associated with a picture and a spatial task. The sounds made sense, too — the meow did not accompany the picture of dynamite, for example.
"It's not really that you reminded them of what they needed to know," Dr. Stickgold said, "but rather you reminded them of a larger memory that they needed to know."
Not every scientist who studies sleep was impressed.
Robert P. Vertes, a neuroscience professor at Florida Atlantic University, said the results showed "such a minor effect that it's not significant," adding that the effect was even less significant because other study subjects who remained awake showed similarly better recall with sound cues.
The authors said more research was needed, but added that while awake people would be expected to do better with sound cues, the study was significant because it suggested that people could be coached during sleep.
Sara C. Mednick, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study, was intrigued that the sleeping subjects appeared to show slight electrical shifts in their brain waves shortly after cues were played, suggesting that the brain replayed "prior experiences."
The authors said they were interested in how long memory-enhancement was retained after waking and whether "this kind of thing will show up with overnight sleep," said John D. Rudoy, a co-author and doctoral student at Northwestern.
The subjects napped 90 minutes or less, long enough to experience slow-wave or deep sleep but not REM sleep. Some scientists believe that in slow-wave sleep the brain reinforces factual memories, while in REM sleep the brain sorts and organizes memories.
The authors and other experts said the study's primary contribution was helping to understand the brain's memory-making process and reinforcing, as Dr. Walker put it, "how important it is to get a good eight hours."
But Dr. Paller said he was exploring whether auditory cues could help reinforce cognitive behavioral therapy for people with depression or anxiety. And in other areas, he said, the method probably could not teach information, but reinforce something already learned.
"One of our speculations is that SAT scores could be improved," he said.
It might help "a football player trying to learn a playbook," Dr. Paller added. "Even remembering people's names."Continue reading the main story


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I'm always amazed by the amount of trees present within the Adirondack Park. No sooner than you penetrate its southern boundary, a stone's throw away from Lake George, you're smacked in the face by a veil of green that extends out into the horizon, seemingly un-interrupted. The Adirondack Northway becomes a mainline shot into a realm of pine, hardwoods, fir and spruce. The aroma at times can be quite intoxicating….
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Kennedy, a consulting research and advisory firm, has again ranked PwC number one globally in its Financial Consulting Marketplace 2010-2013 report.
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