A pretty side stream at Worcester Mountain.
Rugged trail, straight up the fall line, on Worcester Mountain.
Breaking out onto the open ledges near the top of Worcester Mountain.
The trail is marked with painted blazes on the granite ledges... which are of course covered in snow all winter.
A view off trail – where I think other hikers accidentally turned right this winter.
A view of the trail ahead with a blazed rock at the critical point where others were lost this winter; a tree carries some old red flagging tape, invisible in the winter's rime ice.
A near-vertical section of trail, slashed by quartzite.
The incredibly white, large vein of quartz (marble?) passing through the granite ledges.
The real trail proceeds around the promontory and into the woods to the left, not over the lege to the right.
The sign I was so happen to find this winter, now well above my head.
The upper sections of Worcester Mountain are quite steep.
A hazy view from the summit of Worcester Mountain.
A hazy view of Mount Putnam from the summit of Worcester Mountain.
The trail continues onward toward Mount Putnam and Stowe Pinnacle.
A well-worn trail descends through the green forest.
