Camping at Duck Pond

On the maps of Burnt Rossman, and in the plan for this area, there is a primative campsite. While unmarked there, there are two developed campsites along the pond with stone-built campfire places, and some places where horses have been staked down in the past.

Campsite at Duck Pond

 Bubb And Sis Lakes Trail

Duck pond which is mostly a swamp, is quite pretty in the evening. The bugs really weren’t that bad.

Duck Pond at Night

Cleaning up after dinner in the evening.

Camping at Duck Pond

The wildflowers where in full bloom in late June when I was camping out there.

Wildflowers

Wildflowers

Near the campsite is a monument commemerating Charles Hopkins, the first Forest Ranger who maintained these 13,000 acres of state land.

Camping in the Mountain Laurel

In the morning, I drove south toward Blenhium on the rather rough part of the Duck Pond Truck Trail, which becomes much rougher after Duck Pond.

Rough Lower Section of Burnt Hill Road

While I camped out there all night, I only saw one car in the morning driving by.

Here is a map of Duck Pond at Burnt Rossman.

Likes and Dislikes

Tea Party Likes.

  • Not afraid to question, criticize the establishment; their independent
  • Anti-tax sentiment, especially when it comes to fees and hurting the average Middle Class American
  • Anti-regulatory sentiment, and highlighting some of the abuses of our bureaucrats and their power grab
  • Pushing for change and reform, a new breed of politician

Hope

Tea Party Dislikes.

  • Too closely tied to Republican Party and Republican Candidates
  • Too caught up in conservative rhetoric
  • Takes libertarianism to it’s logical extreme — it takes questions of personal liberty to the extreme of corporate domination
  • Too anti-union, anti-fair labor practices
  • Unwilling to see when government can do the right thing

100,000 Iraqis Dead

Indeed, if the Tea Party Movement could get away from all it’s conservative and libertarian extremist rhetoric, it would be something I could support.

If the Tea Party Movement could get behind moderate Democrats — those who progressive economically, but also libertarian or even somewhat conservative when it comes to social issues, it would be something I could support.

I don’t want to see our country ruined by a lack of a good government, nor do I want to see our country become a totalitarian state run by liberal activists.