In June we went camping in Vermont for the first time. We chose Emerald Lake Campground which is between Manchester and Rutland in the beautiful Green Mountains. We headed up Friday night, set up camp and enjoyed some delicious tofu dogs on the campfire.
We started early on Saturday and drove down to Manchester for a hike to Lay Brook Falls. The trail head was just out of town and there was only one other car. It was a nice straightforward 2.3 mile hike to the falls, so 4.6 mile round trip. Matt enjoyed searching for mushrooms, of which there were plenty.
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| Reishi's... he makes tea out of them |
The trail has been was interrupted by quite a large landslide, which looked fairly recent.
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| Glad we didn't get hit by this |
Not long after the landslide we reached the falls. We spent a while there which was very enjoyable to be all alone with such a lovely waterfall to watch. Really quite impressive.
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| Matt... |
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| ... and Ellie |
We headed back to the car and went into Manchester for lunch. We found a Thai place and had a very delicious and really cheap lunch. There was no shopping allowed though (Manchester has a large number of outlets with no sales tax)!
The afternoon was spent at Emerald Lake itself, just a short mile-ish hike down from the camp area. It was a nice sunny afternoon so there were a few people at the "beach" but it wasn't too bad, especially out in the water.
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| Emerald Lake from the beach |
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| The view from in the Lake |
We went for a swim out and around the island. On the back was a large rope swing which Matt had to try...
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| Action shot |
It was fun to watch but I was happy in the water.
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| No action shot! |
After a swim back to the beach, and some time drying off in the sun we hiked back up to camp and set about making dinner - pizzas on the grill! So so good. I may have dropped the first one in the fire, but luckily I divided the dough in half so we had a second pizza and more tofu dogs. We drove back to Albany on Sunday. A great weekend in the fresh Vermont air and water.
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| Happy Vermont Weekend! |
Hey Ellie, still loving reading your blog - just interested - how do you grill pizza and what does it look like?! Jx
ReplyDeleteI use premade raw pizza dough and shape it out into some kind of circle and brush one side with olive oil. I then put the side with olive oil onto the BBQ grill or onto a grill over the campfire. Once the bottom is browned and the top starts to get air bubbles I take it off, flip it over and put sauce and toppings on the side with the grill marks (the cooked side). It then goes back on the BBQ/fire to cook the other side of the dough and the toppings. Sometimes I'll put some foil in a tent shape over the top to melt the cheese more. It has the smokey/grilled flavour and I love it. Tried it on a campfire and a coal BBQ and it works great! This site has great pictures and a more thorough explanation. Try it, you won't be dissapointed!
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