A Transcript reporter hits the trail for her first Mount Greylo...

Yes, I was one of the thousands of ramblers Monday to ascend and descend the foliage-lined, muddy and stone-packed trails leading to the summit of the highest peak in Massachusetts.

[Rambled Way Back]

I've hiked up The Landslide, The Thunderbolt, The Road in Winter, Bellows Pipe And Cheshire Harbor.

Most sweat going up, Most cramps coming down.

The easiest was up the Power Lines.

A shorter climb, with a more interesting view is Eagle Rock.
Look up to the east from Pedrins.
The State has the maps at South Pond Ranger Station.

Hoosac Mountain is actually a part of the Green Mountain Range, and Berkshire Hill extend into Connecticut.

Too out of shape nowadays.

I miss The Old Florida Road from The Overlook down onto Upper East Hoosac Street, "Old Oak Turn"

Off road contraptions Ruined it along with
many other nice places.

[frogs]

Rambled Way Back wrote:

I've hiked up The Landslide, The Thunderbolt, The Road in Winter, Bellows Pipe And Cheshire Harbor.
Most sweat going up, Most cramps coming down.
The easiest was up the Power Lines.
A shorter climb, with a more interesting view is Eagle Rock.
Look up to the east from Pedrins.
The State has the maps at South Pond Ranger Station.
Hoosac Mountain is actually a part of the Green Mountain Range, and Berkshire Hill extend into Connecticut.
Too out of shape nowadays.
I miss The Old Florida Road from The Overlook down onto Upper East Hoosac Street, "Old Oak Turn"
Off road contraptions Ruined it along with
many other nice places.

Do you remember the trail up Upper East Hoosac st. in Adams that use to take to a camp called frog pound. A bunch of hippies use to live up there. The trail is by a house up there now with stockade fencing around it. It has their driveway and the trail is right next to it. My father many years ago use to own the land where the trailer or house is now that is next to the trail? It would be on your right hand side coming down coty mt.

[Rambler no More]

frogs
North Adams, MA

Never went that way
Always headed for South Pond

I did hear rumors about a lead mine in that area of which you speak
Across the Miller Brook from There was High Bridge, where the Tophet started

I still drive up East Mountain Road past Doris Alibozek's Farm

Great View
I heard the stockade is referred to as Fort Lesbian

or it was once

I still remember The National Guard Shelter above the old Town Farm
It was a replica of WWI Trenches
Us Boy Scouts went there often

[frog]

the hippies built a home in a shape of a huge octagon. their was also many little building up there too. It was a really nice place it was clean. this would have been in the early to mid 70's. i also think their was a pond up that trail too. it has been many years since i walk that trail. never heard of the lead mines it must have been a little before my time.

[frog]

this frog pond was up upper east hoosic st. right before where the coty's live. are we talking about the same road. sometime my typing is not the best and i get ahead of my thinking that goes on in my head. this is on the road they use to oak turn road.

[Rambler no More]

frog
North Adams, MA
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Walter Swiatek the Adams Plumber told me the hippies wanted him to pipe in a water bed upstairs.
He told them about the Huge Weight of that much water, but I believe that they did it anyway.
Crash!!!

I found an old photo of two women,(late 1800s)
standing on Upper East Hoosac , past The Old Oak Turn (Florida Road) with a shot of Greylock, No Tower and No Landslide) I gave it to the teacher that made the video "Purple Mountain Majesty)

There also was some talk of a Crystal Cave around there. I am talking 1940s and early 50s.

There also was a Talc Mine off of Bush Road Savoy.
I was there, In bygone days mines around here were not that big.`In square feet, about the size of the foundation of a small house.

Just up the street from Subway Sandwich in North Adams is a Bronze Plaque comemorating Iron Ore Smelted in North Adams for The Ironclad Battleship Monitor.

On West Road just past Fisk Street heading for Cheshire, was a Tiny Quarry where some Marble for The US Capitol Dome was obtained.
They incorporate some stones from all over the country.

Mohawk Trail, at Whitcomb Summit, across the road where the little cabins were , a small driveway is actually an old road. Down a ways is a rock tower
built as a Survey Site when the Hoosac Tunnel was being built.
Neat Walk.

[frogs]

Rambler no More wrote:

frog
North Adams, MA
**********
Walter Swiatek the Adams Plumber told me the hippies wanted him to pipe in a water bed upstairs.
He told them about the Huge Weight of that much water, but I believe that they did it anyway.
Crash!!!
I found an old photo of two women,(late 1800s)
standing on Upper East Hoosac , past The Old Oak Turn (Florida Road) with a shot of Greylock, No Tower and No Landslide) I gave it to the teacher that made the video "Purple Mountain Majesty)
There also was some talk of a Crystal Cave around there. I am talking 1940s and early 50s.
There also was a Talc Mine off of Bush Road Savoy.
I was there, In bygone days mines around here were not that big.`In square feet, about the size of the foundation of a small house.
Just up the street from Subway Sandwich in North Adams is a Bronze Plaque comemorating Iron Ore Smelted in North Adams for The Ironclad Battleship Monitor.
On West Road just past Fisk Street heading for Cheshire, was a Tiny Quarry where some Marble for The US Capitol Dome was obtained.
They incorporate some stones from all over the country.
Mohawk Trail, at Whitcomb Summit, across the road where the little cabins were , a small driveway is actually an old road. Down a ways is a rock tower
built as a Survey Site when the Hoosac Tunnel was being built.
Neat Walk.

I know about water beds, my cousin was renting from our Aunt and his daughter put a water bed in the upstairs apartment and the mattress sprang a leak and the whole upstairs and some of the down stairs did get flooded. Another place where my dad I use to walk a lot was Bear Swamp. We use to pick up old insulator and railroad nails with the dates on them. I still have the old nails. Coffee cans fulls. Yes we used to walk the Hoosac Tunnel trail too. I miss my dad and going for our walks together. We also use to walk up Windsor James a lot mushrooming.

[Rambler no More]

The mushrooms are sparse nowadays.

I rode a few times through the Hoosac Tunnel on a train. a friend Nidgy Ordyna used to walk it when he worked for the Railroad.

A Scary Place.

Before Bear Swamp was built, I was "parking" on a date. A Brown Bear crawled onto my hood.
bye, bye......

I did walk through the tunnel in Cheshire, between the Gypsum Company and the Quarry.
It was only a half or quarter mile long.

VERY Dark. we had 6 D cell flashlights, but the beam only went less than a ysrd.

Still not as dark as a Smog in Oceanside California. Went out the barracks door and could not see my Zippo Flame six inches away from my eyes.

I took a photo of a desert rail crossing in Arizona in 1957. I took a photo of the same place in 2007. No Change at all.

Almost like Jack's Hot Dog Stand.
I remember a dime apiece, My Father told me they were a nickle.

[frogs]

I wouldn't even know my mushrooms anymore its been that long. Plus most of my family is gone. I have two Aunts left, one is going to be 98 in December and the other is in her mid 90's. I went to visited my 97 year old Aunt a while back. I bought along some very old pictures of my Uncles and Aunts and though she could fill me in some information of the pictures. She said it was so long ago that she doesn't even remember where she was and why she wasn't even in some of the pictures.. So who would I ask if the mushrooms were any good? HA HA I also have a picture of my family from our trip to the Grand Canyon back in 67, my sister and I went back in 2008 and brought the picture that was taken at that time. Boy did things change, as for trees that grow natural. We look but we could not find the same spot we stood 41 years ago. We did have fun trying to find that spot.

[Roamin in the Gloamin]

I still look for mushrooms occasionally.

Prawdziwe, liszuwki, golambki zolte and zielone

The main one is King Boletus, never found a morel, but they grow on MCLA Campus.

Ocean State Job Lots have good prices on imported dried ones.

My son in Virginia got sick on some he picked down there. Mushroom can absorb stuff in the soil so if some poison plants are nearby, they hve the poison.

Mostly I used canned pieces.

[frogs]

I would like to say, its been very nice to chat with you. No swearing and no name calling like most do on these post. I used to pick mushrooms by the bag fulls when I was young my mother would dry some for kapusta and my babci (grandmother) would make fresh mushroom soup. Wish I knew her recipe on how to make the soup. Believe it or not I do not like mushrooms so as a child I would pick out the mushrooms. How silly and also I like the part of your story where the bear jumps on your car hood. Was your son o.k after he ate the mushrooms. Yes, when thing grow in the soil you have to be careful of the surroundings, but if you don't know what can you do? I had some black gold on the property line and went to dig some up for my house plant, dark rich soil but guess what it had old lead paint chips in it. It was all no good. Looks like the rain is here to stay today. Thats fine I just planted a 150 cloves of garlics and the rain came in at a prefect time for me.

[Roamin in the Gloamin]

Also did not like mushrooms as a kid, but enjoyed "Hunting Them"
In the old days you just "Picked" but as time went by, they started hiding.

For convenience , I use Garlic Powder. Fresh garlic can carry salmonella, and unless you use every day, it turns.

When I was One of the Few Good Men, we ate smoked bacon out of the can. It looked and tasted like Raw Bacon. U.S. Rations, but the can said it was from Sweden.

Great Taste, but never saw it around since.

On other issues, under a different nomenclature, I have and will resort to nmae calling.

Some people with certain issues cannot be dealt with any other way.

But I try to just ignore those topics.

[frogs]

You were a Marine? My father was in WWII as a Marine. My sister and I have my fathers war album that his sister put together for him. When as a child looking at his album we came across some pictures that was taken in Hawaii, that was when women did not wear tops and only wore grass shirts. He had quit a few of the girls topples in his album. After all it was their custom to dress that. But we would giggle about it. My Aunt put all of his papers in it. from enlisting till he got out of the war. Never heard of bacon in the can either. My father just spoke of spam and he liked spam to. I have been in a few blog fights myself for what reasons I do not know. It seems to draw you in to the fight.

[Roamin in the Gloamin]

I still eat Spam...and Drink Moxie but the (diet one)
I was in about ten years after your father was in.

[frogs]

Roamin in the Gloamin wrote:

I still eat Spam...and Drink Moxie but the (diet one)
I was in about ten years after your father was in.

My uncle loved Moxie I on the other hand do not. I thank you for serving our country. My son just sign up for the Air Force Reservoirs. He has few exams to take first to see if he will be accepted I hope so. His job is not looking like its going to be around much longer plus their is not a lot of work around here anymore. Boy, we did get a lot of rain yesterday didn't we!

[Roamin in the Gloamin]

My uncle who was in the 8th Air Force loved Moxie and turned me on to it. Moxie was around way before Coca Cola and was Much Healthier.

Coke becam popular because it was originally made with cocaine and was addictive.

Moxie had gentian root and cure parasitic infections.

Big Y Adams carries it. The Diet one is better tasting.

I was down Connecticut yesterday, less rain except on the way back.

The weather shall become more fearsome due to the Global Climate Change.

Rains are heavier and winds more powerful .

[frogs]

Roamin in the Gloamin wrote:

My uncle who was in the 8th Air Force loved Moxie and turned me on to it. Moxie was around way before Coca Cola and was Much Healthier.
Coke becam popular because it was originally made with cocaine and was addictive.
Moxie had gentian root and cure parasitic infections.
Big Y Adams carries it. The Diet one is better tasting.
I was down Connecticut yesterday, less rain except on the way back.
The weather shall become more fearsome due to the Global Climate Change.
Rains are heavier and winds more powerful .

I know about Coca Cola my mother drank it by the case fulls it seems. I to was brought up on Coke Cola. Now a days I drink Root Beer. My favorite was Birch Beer from the Squeeze Company. Yes, are weather is getting worse as Global changes are happening all around the world. Our forest are be log at a alarming rate. Home are being built right on the ocean fronts. Some places were not meant to have people living in some spots. But what I have been reading smog is down because of job lay offs less people working mean less drivers on the road. Plus I never knew that about Moxie! Moxie was also made with real sugar no high fructose corn syrup like sodas today. Winds are a lot stronger I notice that myself. I hate driving in the rain and at night. It must be my age. My father always said when it was raining it was a good day for traveling. Did you have a nice time in Connecticut yesterday?

[Oh Woe]

In Law Party in Connecticut.... Duty Trip

I prefer Upstate New York or Arizona for trips

Me too , between Squeeze Birch Beer and Pineapple

Max Gwodz's father started Squeeze as a dealer of a New Orleans Fruit Flavor Drink Company United Something or Other

It sold out to a New Hampshire Company,

Moxie is a carbonated beverage which was among the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States, and is regionally popular to this day.

History
The original instance of Moxie was a patent medicine called "Moxie Nerve Food"[1] which was invented ca. 1876 by Dr. Augustin Thompson. Thompson claimed that it contained extracts from a rare, unnamed South-American plant which was discovered by a (fictitious) friend of his, one Lieutenant Moxie[1]; as a panacea, it was supposed to be especially effective against "paralysis, softening of the brain, nervousness and insomnia"[1].

After a few years, Thompson added soda water to the formula and changed the name to "Beverage Moxie Nerve Food". By 1884 he was selling Moxie both in bottles and in bulk as a soda fountain syrup, marketing it as "... a delicious blend of bitter and sweet, a drink to satisfy everyone's taste."[2]

The company used the slogan "Make mine Moxie!", advertising jingles such as “Just Make It Moxie for Mine”, and the "Moxie Man" logo. President Calvin Coolidge was known to have favored the drink, and Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams was hired to endorse the soft drink. Author E. B. White once claimed that “Moxie contains gentian root, which is the path to the good life.”[3]


The original Moxie logo featuring the "Moxie Man" on the label of a newer derivative productThe brand suffered a significant decline in popularity the 1930s, which is thought to have been the result of the company's decision to increase spending on their sugar reserves while cutting back on their popular advertising campaigns.

Falling out of favor due to competition from Coca Cola, demand for Moxie has waned in recent years, although demand still exists in New England. One of the key ingredients of Moxie is “Gentian Root Extractives”, which probably contributes noticeably to its unique flavor.[4]

Sugar-free Diet Moxie was introduced in 1962.

[rambler]

Squeeze Soda came from these beginings. EBAY has an old San Francisco Squeeze Soda Bottle from 1931.

United Fruit Company
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Entrance facade of old United Fruit Building on St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LouisianaThe United Fruit Company was a United States corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas and pineapples) grown in Third World plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions.[1]

The company had a deep and long-lasting impact in the economic and political development of several Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the so-called "banana republics" (a term coined by O. Henry). After a period of financial decline, United Fruit was merged with Eli M. Black's AMK in 1970 to become the United Brands Company. In 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr. transformed United Brands into the present-day Chiquita Brands International.

The New Squeeze Soda is over sugared and has a Phoney Taste.
Of Course even way back Greasy Hamburgers with the Added Grease of The Grille soaked int to Bun Tasted Delicious, At The Time...

My favorite Cheap Burger is a Junior Whopper(No Mayo) for a dollar

For Birch Beer and Pineapple Soda, I like Polar Diet

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Entrance facade of old United Fruit Building on St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LouisianaThe United Fruit Company was a United States corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas and pineapples) grown in Third World plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions.[1]

The company had a deep and long-lasting impact in the economic and political development of several Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the so-called "banana republics" (a term coined by O. Henry). After a period of financial decline, United Fruit was merged with Eli M. Black's AMK in 1970 to become the United Brands Company. In 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr. transformed United Brands into the present-day Chiquita Brands International.

I also like a canned expresso mocha coffee from Japan...nad a New York Brand (Hard To Find)

[frogs]

Wow, you seem to know a lot of things gone by. After you said Pineapple soda I remember it myself. Funny how time makes you forget thing that bought you such joy to life. My uncle drank Moxie till the day he died at 93 years of age. Now its lucky if we make to 65. People ate better and worked harder back then. Plus our government was not polluting our body with all kinds of preservatives and hormones. You grew your own vegetables and care for animals you ate.