HOLT POND
(Posted 2008-10-19 01:24:17 by ArchPaladin)

My wife and I had about an hour in the middle of the day today before she
went off to work, and we took advantage of the time to go romping around
the backyard.  By the backyard, I mean the woods and pond areas that are
behind the house.  We explicitly went because it was autumn and the colored
leaves are out, but I took the camera along anyway.  I didn't get to do as
much exploring as I wanted to as this was a more impromptu journey, but was
still good to get some pictures.

Our destination was this one little rocky outcropping that affords a nice
view of the bulk of the pond.  A little ways back into the woods from this
set of rocks is a larger firepit and some fallen logs that people have
commandeered as benches.  They have littered the place with aluminum cans
and plastic bottles and such, but the rocks are very largely left alone. 
Most of the pictures I took are at this area.

There is actually a lot to see back in this region.  There is a reservoir
for Pennichuck Water Works that I took a couple of photos for.  There is
also a series of trails all throughout the woods.  Most just intersect with
each other, and perhaps the only thing of interest that we could find last
summer was a cell tower (I would like to get a picture of this too, but
again - time).  Also, Holt Pond itself is actually one of a set of four
ponds (the Great Ponds?) in the area that Pennichuck uses for drinking
water.  At the intersection of each pond is supposed to be a damn of some
kind - at least there is if the map isn't lying to me.  I have yet to see
any of these damns, and I would like to verify their existence.  Perhaps
most of all I would like to cross over to the other side of the ponds and
explore the woods far out from the condo.  We easily wandered into
Merrimack went we went exploring last time, so I suspect something similar
would happen were we to do it again.  Sadly, most of this will have to wait
until next year, probably in the summer.

My wife had a really cool idea for a picture, but the batteries died just
before she could take it, so that too will have to wait.  Even still, it
was still a good trip.

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