Photos taken February 27, 2004

Photos taken February 25, 2004

 

Taken from turn around point looking down into Main St of Barre. Note City hall just to right of white clock tower of church	Looking East from turn around to Butterfield Mtn. (20 snowmobile trail miles away) that our trail crosses on Corridor 302. Note trees coated with rime
Wayne standing in front of 9-1/2 foot blade of the PB200. Parked 200 yards from home in Windy Wood apple orchard where I stopped to go to lunch.	Wayne in front of groomer's blade on trail C14. You can see one of the many "orange squeezer" spots between two trees with only 4 inches of clearance.

Photos taken February 2, 2004

Groomer parked at Windywood Apple Orchard on C-14B	Groomer parked on 14B overlooking valley west to Barre (Note: this same trail 150 years ago had oxen and sleigh hauling granite blocks from Cobble Hill Quarry to Montpelier to build the statehouse)	Groomer stopped on steep hill on 14B and showing special "slow" barrel/sign to preserve trail
Groomer stopped on 14B in field prior to Dug Out suspension bridge. Shows a special granite monument with a bronze tablet in memory of "Eucy" Messier a Sno Bees pioneer in the early seventies and one of our groomer operators; also built the first suspension bridge over the Jail Branch.	Close up of "A man who made a difference" to our Sno Bees for many years ( He died of a heart attack after helping other snowmobiler whose sled caught fire on a trail in Groton forest)