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If you have a lot of time on your hands around Greylock the 1,000 Greatest Places in Massachusetts has a few suggestions:
BTW, the Berkshire Eagle highly recommends Jack’s Hot Dog Stand
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The Bascom Lodge on Mount Greylock has opened for the season Among the changes are that beer and wine will be served.
John Dudek, along with his brother Peter and associate Brad Parsons, were awarded the historic curatorship by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation last year. Instead of paying rent, they will be asked to regularly maintain and upgrade the one-of-a-kind facility, using a portion of the profits garnered by operating the mountaintop lodge and its eatery, throughout the 25-year lease.
The Manchester Journal says that following a 1990 landslide the face of Chief Graylock can be seen on the eastern face of the mountain.
For years we have editorialized that the state and regional tourism officials have virtually ignored this massive impression of a Native American face, so clearly visible for miles around, when it should be heralded as an attraction rivaling or surpassing New Hampshire’s former “Old Man of the Mountain”…Some state officials have said they and others just don’t see the face in the landslide, which indicates either blindness or lack of imagination.
It offers this history of the Chief. Here’s the wikipedia article.
If you look hard enough maybe Greylock is a Redskins fan!
We earlier reported that Massachusetts was considering changing its Greylock displays to possibly more thoroughly tell the tale of the ghost on Bellow’s Pipe Trail on Greylock. This report says the ghost is that of a Union soldier. When he returned home from the Civil War his wife had married another. He headed up the trail to live as a hermit. His ghost is now seen always going up the mountain — never down. Here’s another more detailed report saying that he is reported to have been photographed twice. He usually haunts the lower sections of the trail and is most often seen in January.
The Massachusetts DCR is looking to spend $1 million in federal money on Mount Greylock and are reviewing overhauling its exhibits. Intriguingly it says:
How the Civilian Conservation Corps forged roads to the summit? The American Indians who once lived around it? The legend of the Civil War ghost who haunts one of its dales? How about its unique geology and ecology?
The state has already spent $11 million fixing the roads to the mountain.
Just when you thought spring was in full bloom...they’re predicting snow on Mount Greylock.
The Thunderbolt ski race down Mount Greylock is back on today after problems with not enough snow.
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Here’s the May 13, 2006 round up of backcountry accidents Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oregon, and Utah.
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Here’s a summary of coyote, bear and mountain lion reports in Tennessee, Washington, Colorado and Massachusetts.
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