Roscoe!

[First-light]

Coming home today I had some time to kill so I drove through Roscoe. About 35 years ago I owned a Cabin up on Morton Hill road. We sold it in the mid 90's. A lot of family hunting up on the state land off of that road. Boy has it changed but then again 30 years is a long time. Fields where we would camp are now hard woods. There isn't even any area you could pull you truck off to camp. Woods have grown right up to the road. Some of the homes I recognize but many are new. My place is there in fact I just saw it listed last year for sale. Time sure marches on and waits for no one. 

[Northcountryman]

Did your property border the Beaverkill? Nice area around there. 

[Doc]

It is interesting when you live long enough to see those kinds of changes. I am 80 years old an my memories are constantly bombarded with those kinds of time related changes. So many of my favorite hunting areas around Naples are now homesites. Up on the hill behind my house there used to be a wide open field where a neighbor grew a wheat crop that I can remember. Now it is choked with tall maples and no more open areas. The big ice storm that we had rearranged everything on the hill. Deer trails and all feeding areas moved around. Many of the old family farms have become new 5 and 10 acre housing areas or completely posted up by anti-hunting owners. You are right, "Time sure marches on and waits for no one". 

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1 hour ago, Northcountryman said:

Did your property border the Beaverkill? Nice area around there. 

We didn't border the river but it was at the base of Morton Hill road. We would drive the Trike (lol) down there and fish. First time I taught my girlfriend to fly fish she catches a big brook trout! Yes it is beautiful. They were hit hard with the rain last week. Talked to a work crew cleaning up downed trees and such.  

[First-light]

You know there is 15,000 acres to hunt on that hill. There was no acces point to park a vehicle just drop off places for snow mobiles and hikers. Now 30 years ago there were fields we would back into. Set up camp, even the boy scouts were there. It is so much more difficult now. I don't want to think about about 100 years from now. My girls get my place and in my will we be something said about preserving this place for future generations like your Father has done for you. Roscoe looked beautiful but trying to access it to hunt these days is a joke. 

[Northcountryman]

My hunting club used to hunt up on Roscoe mountain back in the 80s.  They either had a lease up there, or, permission to hunt from landowner; sadly, property was sold . 

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8 hours ago, Northcountryman said:

My hunting club used to hunt up on Roscoe mountain back in the 80s.  They either had a lease up there, or, permission to hunt from landowner; sadly, property was sold . 

There was a hunt club across from us. I saw one day a load of carrots coming in for bait! lol They were good guys never had a problem.