Consolation Prize

By:  Greg
October 2, 2011


Luckily, this time of year, the usually sleepy towns of Northern Vermont put up a few extra traffic-lights as a cue that you too, man, need to slow down.
slow down at traffic lights

And thank goodness; it’s worth having a peep at the peak show.
a closer look

a closer look

Or is that a peek at the peep show? Who knows…
a peek at the peep show

a peek at the peep show

Even when the leaves aren’t at peak there’s always something to peep.
always something to peep

something to peep

So take a closer look at the consolation prize. Snow will be here soon enough. For now though, you never know what you might see.
take a closer look

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10 Comments

  1. MIcky O (ILOVE2SKI)
    wrote on October 2nd, 2011 at 4:41 pm  
    1

    Great pics, looking nice up there right now.

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    • Greg
      wrote on October 2nd, 2011 at 5:06 pm  
      2

      Thanks Micky

  2. Harvey44
    wrote on October 2nd, 2011 at 6:18 pm  
    3

    Two points to the guys/girls who decided to plant sugar maples all along the roads in NY/VT. Nice pics Greg, a treat.

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  3. madskier
    wrote on October 3rd, 2011 at 12:53 pm  
    4

    Amazing pics…Is FIS putting out a calendar this year?

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  4. savant
    wrote on October 3rd, 2011 at 3:24 pm  
    5

    waiting for them snowliage pics!

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    • Greg
      wrote on October 3rd, 2011 at 3:42 pm  
      6

      stay tuned!! Believe me… so am I… so am I…

  5. bushman
    wrote on October 3rd, 2011 at 10:21 pm  
    7

    and you know those pics don’t do justice to what Greg saw. Those sights are what make people ride a BUS from down yonder for days to see. Once unloaded them for $.50/bag when there was a HJ hotel on williston rd in burlington, now a friendly’s,all them people from Tennessee come to the the trees.
    As for snow, well Lionel was right about the weather and timing, just off a few hundred miles SOUTH– here’a link:

    http://www.wjla.com/articles/2011/10/watch-snow-falling-at-snowshoe-mountain-67328.html

    won’t be long. will check in. heading north saturday to trim some pesky twigs on my routes

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  6. icelanticskier
    wrote on October 4th, 2011 at 2:28 pm  
    8

    mmmmmmmm, peepshow. nice work!

    rog

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  7. Sam
    wrote on October 5th, 2011 at 12:09 am  
    9

    Damn dude, nice pictures.

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