western ma mast/blowdowns

[Spanz]

Just spent a day hunting in western ma near charlemont. No beachnuts in the trees, must have suffered from the wet spring. But more importantly, I could barely make it thru the woods. The entire mountain top was covered with blowdown trees. Literally, every 20 feet you had to crawl over a tree lying sideways. Could not even walk along some of the logging roads. After 4 hours of that I was exhausted! what happened out there, tornado?

I did see a male moose though--young adult. Kind of chased/followed me for 100', then gave up. He was probably tired of walking thru the blowdown too!

 

[KMM696]

That's the leftovers from the December ice storm. You'll find that in a lot of higher elevation towns in W Mass.

 

[biff44]

must have been one big ice storm!

 

[FPrice]

must have been one big ice storm!

It was in all the papers.

 

[Hiltonizer]

GPS cords where I can bring my truck and a chainsaw? Firewood prices are still retaaahted.

 

[KMM696]

Anywhere west of Rte 112 with an altitude above 1000 ft would be a good place to look......of course, we've been scavenging all the easy places since December!

 

[MrsWildweasel]

It was in all the papers.

Yup and when we have taken some of our rides up country, it looks like a daisy cutter went off.