Lost in NH
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:07 pm
Looks like a good road on the map. Dorcester sounds like a nice town.
It is a nice road, sorta...............but it ends here....sorta...........
MLW says 'no way.....'; 10 minutes later we're 2-uping up one of NH's byways.
Half an hour later I was thinking of Chitown's pictures thinking 'Am I really doing this?' The worst was a 20 foot stretch of loose sand where I almost lost it,........but didn't. Go to the top of the road and saw a closed gate going up, and a sign saying 'Use Private Way to Access Lake' or something similar. So after some regret of putting MLW in this situation and delaying our arrival to the hotel I start down the road that says 'Private Way'. Then a truck drives up from 'Private Way'. I say "Does this road go through to 118?" They laugh & say "Yeah, but you'll need a chainsaw, come-along & 4WD to get there, they stopped maintaining that part of the road 15-20 years ago." They talked to me for a while; convincing me that the best way out was the way I came in.
MLW wasn't keen on it & decided to walk down. Every 200-300 yards I'd stop & wait for her. I managed to get a picture on the way down; I had to look at the time stamp on the file becuase the picture looks like it's going uphill.
We made it all they down w/o incident, just had to go really slow.
When I looked at the map later I noticed a little gap just prior to Rt. 118; right next to the last 'r' in Dorcester.
Silly me............
It is a nice road, sorta...............but it ends here....sorta...........
MLW says 'no way.....'; 10 minutes later we're 2-uping up one of NH's byways.
Half an hour later I was thinking of Chitown's pictures thinking 'Am I really doing this?' The worst was a 20 foot stretch of loose sand where I almost lost it,........but didn't. Go to the top of the road and saw a closed gate going up, and a sign saying 'Use Private Way to Access Lake' or something similar. So after some regret of putting MLW in this situation and delaying our arrival to the hotel I start down the road that says 'Private Way'. Then a truck drives up from 'Private Way'. I say "Does this road go through to 118?" They laugh & say "Yeah, but you'll need a chainsaw, come-along & 4WD to get there, they stopped maintaining that part of the road 15-20 years ago." They talked to me for a while; convincing me that the best way out was the way I came in.
MLW wasn't keen on it & decided to walk down. Every 200-300 yards I'd stop & wait for her. I managed to get a picture on the way down; I had to look at the time stamp on the file becuase the picture looks like it's going uphill.
We made it all they down w/o incident, just had to go really slow.
When I looked at the map later I noticed a little gap just prior to Rt. 118; right next to the last 'r' in Dorcester.
Silly me............
