Mountain View
Photos from Marion Davis Photo Album
Watatic view from Wapack Lodge
Monadnock from Pratt
Balance Rock
Located between North and South Packs
Father Time
“Father Time” standing on South Pack Monadnock
On this day - February 15, 1898
William Jurian Kaula diary - no diary entry
On this day - February 14, 1909
James Roger diary entry
15th (Saturday)
Heavy rain all day high South wind. Snow is nearly all gone. Clearing up at sunset. David went for grain in forenoon and Jim and he washed the harness after. Then David went in afternoon to meet Berkley who arrived at about 5. I fixed Church furnaces.
New Ipswich (and other New England towns) have what I call 'welcoming' mountains which are full of life and beckon the wanderer. Mountains that are steep and rocky and lacking vegetation like many out West, do not call me to their peaks. The Wapack trail may have been less forested and maybe some high elevation areas due to the 38 hurricane, but I suspect most areas haven't changed that much. Of course the valleys were impacted by human settlers in the 1800s and those areas have grown back so that NH and Vt are more forested now than a 100 yrs ago.
I'm quite sure that the man in the photo labeled "Father Time" is Frank Robbins. I've seen a few photos of him holding a scythe and an axe. These were his main tools to maintain the Wapack Trail.