From Lake Dunmore, if you climb Mt Moosalamoo, go past the snake point, past the mountain peak, the path comes to a ledge, from there you cam see Bread Loaf, on the north shoulder of which Robert Frost had his summer cabin.
If you choose not to climb a whole mountain, you need only drive up the Middlebury river (road,
Rt whatever), past the gorge, halfway to the college on the left there's a picnic stop and then just a few yards on there's a dirt road. Park at the white house, walk up a path about 100 yards. It's up there.
I visited too many years ago. I need to return to Vermont more often.
A Ripton Sunset
There never was a sound from this cottage but one,
can you hear it? the wind is a scratching pencil,
the etching and revision of natural verse,
Share with me the sunset cowl arising behind
Moosalamoo, enshrouding Bread Loaf with the dusk
Here, the oak tree he leaned against and sat before
while poking fire embers with a walking stick
given him by Tatoskok, used so every night,
until burnt and blackened to such a pencil lance
that he might write upon the landscape, sparing scrap,
Sit here on this scone of stones where he scratched his crown
(perhaps) while college undergrads attend around,
Tally here, the score, in this field we well know,
the mown grass he scythed, made hey, neat parsed six foot rows
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