October 13, 2005
Heart of Vermont
.....The "look" into White River Valley below from high above Cobble House Inn,
over our favorite swimming hole locals call "the glades", to Hunger Mountain's
north slopes ablaze in autumn's color. "Heart of Vermont " has two lane Rt107
beside a mostly northeastward tumbling of the White River. Its zigzag valley
begins at Rt100 in Stockbridge near where the Tweed flowing north from the
Killington mass joins the White and ends at Eaton's Pancake House at Rt14.
17 miles, after collecting the First and Second Branches of the White River,
the flow turns a southerly right and widened, drifts along between Rt14 and
where USA89 crosses high above the White River into Sharon, Vermont.
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The angler wading the shallows, drifting a fly into the deep pool below and
this "look" upstream towards the "gladesare both off water-worn granite outcroppings
that remember a dam, woolen, then later button factories on these rocks.
This is the "look' upriver to "the glades from Gaysville. A great swimming hole
with locals and summer folk's called "Twin Bridges". Its granite ledge
leaning over the pool's been named "Lion Head". Diving from the lion's nose is only
less challenging than the run and leap needed to clear it from the lion's brow.
Atop of Lion's Head, I'd use drips from my suit after dives as water for my "looks"
left and right 
I'd climb back up using hand and toe holds in the left hand "look". Sit myself
where I had left my watercolors on what would be the brow of the lion and
catch the light dancing in the great deep eddy to the left and right below.