A little chilly hiking this morning, 9 degrees when I passed the yellow gate. The plan today was to visit Wendell Farnsworth. His lone grave stone sits remotely on a quite ridge in the Quabbin woods. With research this past week, I was able to narrow the headstone location down to a general area. Reaching out to a fellow hiker that surfaced while doing my research, narrowed the search to a relatively small area. Once I located the house foundation, I split the area up into several quadrants and started doing circles. On the outer circle on the second sweep their stood Wendell’s headstone. The several evenings researching and the effort locating the headstone made for a very satisfying hike back to the truck Just one more reason to hike Quabbin ! Jim
Looking to find this as well. Wish we knew about how far you have to walk on the path before you locate the foundation of the house. Any insight you can provide would be awesome!
ReplyDeleteIf you happen to have a handheld GPS, here are the coordinates:
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W072°14.659'
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ReplyDeleteI've been researching this for weeks! Thank you so much! Will be visiting this weekend and wanted to leave some flowers. :)
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