Silent Cliff

This is a short (2.5 mile), moderately difficult hike reached from the parking lot at Middlebury Gap. The payoff is a spectacular view and terrain that is sleepy hollow-like in places with old trees, lots of mossy downed trees, and a hollow or two. Wonderful.

Snow Bowl Trails, Middlebury College, 11.21.20.

Mounds of artificial snow, Snow Bowl, Middlebury College, 11.21.20.

Hollow, 11.21.20.

Tangled limbs of Grey Birch. 11.21.20.

View of Rte 125 from Silent Cliff, 11.21.20.

Paper Birches, 11.21.20.

Barbara walks past a fallen Grey Birch tree. 11.21.20.

Waves, 11.21.20.

Riven. This American Birch tree has beech scale disease from the insect, Cryptococcus fagisuga. 1.21.20.