Here are a few shots from a cache search we were making yesterday after we left the Up Down Saw Mill.... This was out in the back 40 on and abandoned logging road. Like most without turning the GPS on I figured it would be in here. But it wasn't....but was out behind it. Once again my buddy Jimmy was with me so he grabbed a few shots of whent I went in the root cellar. This one is still in nice shape. Mostly because its out of the way. Jimmy is not a fan of snakes and says they are all over this area. This is just off the edge of the Foxwoods Indian Reservation. They tried to anex this property so it would be tax free, but were unable to pull it off so they didn't purchase it from the town. At any rate, many ask about new England root cellars so here are a few shots of one. Some are much bigger than this, some deeper into the hills, many are caved in but this one is in prime condition.
#1 Entrance we spotted on the way to cache... A lot of GPS cache hiders will not put any caches in the stone work of walls or cellars because
novice hunters, usually kids will tear them apart and destroy them.
#2 A close up of entrance showing the large roof stone, This goes back about 4 of these roof stones. Narrow but deep cellar...
#3 Jim grabbed a few shots me by the cellar to show size of entrance and how big they are inside.
#4 Me getting ready to crawl back in, I still thought me might be in here.... Jim, says, stay out might be snake.......
#5 I crawled in and lit iup with the flash from the camera..... Jim was right.........
#6 Here is the rear shot from flash and in the right corner is a Eastern Rat snake... Not a big one but they can get big.... I didn't bother him, its his home
or at least summer residence.... They are not poison snakes any how, but are constrictors.... Jim don't like them at all....He was saying he worked on
putting in a new dam at the saw mill and while doing it, there were snakes all over...Especially in the old wood buildings around there. I'd be more concerned for copper heads, but I have not seen any of those in a long time, at least not up in my area...
I should run a detector across the bottom of this cellar....ya never know.....Lot of locals detect the walls also....
George-CT
#1 Entrance we spotted on the way to cache... A lot of GPS cache hiders will not put any caches in the stone work of walls or cellars because
novice hunters, usually kids will tear them apart and destroy them.
#2 A close up of entrance showing the large roof stone, This goes back about 4 of these roof stones. Narrow but deep cellar...
#3 Jim grabbed a few shots me by the cellar to show size of entrance and how big they are inside.
#4 Me getting ready to crawl back in, I still thought me might be in here.... Jim, says, stay out might be snake.......
#5 I crawled in and lit iup with the flash from the camera..... Jim was right.........
#6 Here is the rear shot from flash and in the right corner is a Eastern Rat snake... Not a big one but they can get big.... I didn't bother him, its his home
or at least summer residence.... They are not poison snakes any how, but are constrictors.... Jim don't like them at all....He was saying he worked on
putting in a new dam at the saw mill and while doing it, there were snakes all over...Especially in the old wood buildings around there. I'd be more concerned for copper heads, but I have not seen any of those in a long time, at least not up in my area...
I should run a detector across the bottom of this cellar....ya never know.....Lot of locals detect the walls also....
George-CT
