Who could pass up seeing the oldest-known fossil bed of mountain trees that produced seeds, dating from 305 million years ago. Not us! Off we went on a rain threatening Sunday morning in search of the fossil trees.
It was easy enough to find the trail head and know that we were headed in the right direction. Not always the case, as you will see if you read on.
What I want to know is how someone first identified these black streaks in a river bed as ancient tree fossils?
Yep, looks like an ancient tree fossil.
For our next adventure we identified a hike that is part of the International Appalachian Trail, the Indian Head Range Trail. We had the coordinates which we put in the car's GPS. The trail was identified as beginning at Noel's Pond, just outside of Stephenville. Mary Beth took us right to a sign that said, "Welcome to Noel's Pond", on the west side of the road, but no place to park and no trailhead sign. After we went back and forth four times, I spotted a parking area on the east side of the road. Success!
The trailhead sign was faded and there was no one else at the parking lot. Not a good sign. After following a four wheel road for about half a kilometer, we found the trail that veered off to the east. We could just make out, on the trail sign above, that the first part of the trail was through some wetlands. But after going about half an hour, in many places balancing on logs to cross bogs, we decided that whatever the end prize might be, we had had enough.
Tonight we have tickets for the finale Gala of the Stephenville Theatre Festival. Their last performance is tonight. It will be a late night, so this blog will be early.
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