Column: Walking a mountain with its devoted keepers
Will Lange. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Modified: 4/27/2021 10:00:03 PM
On a nearly perfect mid-April morning, a group of us gathered at a freshly created parking lot near the western foot of two small mountains near West Newbury, Vt. Tucker Mountain, dominated by its less spectacular, but taller (by 52 feet) neighbor, Woodchuck Mountain, was our goal for the day. Besides the two-man film crew armed with three cameras and a drone, there was a couple from Greenfield, Mass., the high bidders on New Hampshire Public Broadcasting’s auction for “a day with the crew”; there was Gary Moore, a good friend from Bradford, with his 175-pound Saint Bernard puppy, Oak; and I was there with Kiki, my 25-pound terrier, who took every chance she got to stand between my feet gazing anxiously at Oak, who, after a perfunctory sniff, carelessly ignored her.