Hanging Out on Roberts Hill Traditional Cache
Hanging Out on Roberts Hill
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Large bison tube hidden approximately 20 feet east of the trail in the Roberts Hill Conservation Area. (Click the related web page link for a trail map.)
From the highest ridge of the Roberts Hill Conservation Area, the surrounding woodlands glow with oranges, reds, yellows and greens in the mid-October sunshine. There is so much forest to see from here that it's hard to imagine that only 150 years ago this area and, in fact, most of Massachusetts, was nearly treeless. Cut for timber and firewood, the forests had been converted to scrubby pasture for sheep and cows.
Going back yet another 150 years would bring us to the era of Robert Lyman, the avid hunter after whom Roberts Hill and Roberts Meadow are named. During Lyman's lifetime, the hills in western Northampton were still covered with virgin forests--massive oaks and chestnuts, towering sugar maples and hickories. Timber wolves and mountain lions still roamed the woods, and the ancient footpaths of the Nonotucks threaded through the surrounding countryside.
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