| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
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Some of you may have heard about big brush fires in Milford Mass. in an area called Rocky Woods (AKA Vietnam for all you MTB-heads). These fires (3) required intervention from the Forest Service and many surrounding towns fire depts. to combat. Helecopters were used to drop large buckets of water (300 gals) since the fires were in a remote section. Over 150 acres were burned. A friend and I rode the Vietnam area this morning and didn't encounter any burned out areas. It appears that the damage was some distance east of the most popular riding area. WHEW! The Milford fire dept. believes that because of the remote location of the fires that they were likely intentionally set. Pat
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| 2953.1 | Fires in Rocky Woods | FABSIX::M_VENTRONE | Tue May 23 1995 15:42 | 10 | |
My wife and I were biking in this area about 2 weeks ago. The part of the
forest we were riding we came across trees that had chared burn markes on them.
These trees were not in one big burned out area. They were all over the place.
A couple here a couple there. They did look like somebody had to intentionally
set these trees on fire. I don't think it gets that hot and dry here that they
would burn on there own.
Pretty cool ride there. Why is called vietnam????????
Mike
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| 2953.2 | There is a sign. | PCBUOA::REHBERG | Tue May 23 1995 18:57 | 4 | |
Other than the sign on the tree that says Vietnam, I am not exactly
certain. Before all these fires it may have had dense under story
growth, aka jungle-like??
Rick
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| 2953.3 | Because it's jungle like | NODEX::CLBMUD::mcgreal | Pat McGreal 297-2285 | Wed May 31 1995 13:21 | 9 |
I had a chance to meet the guys who cut most of the trails and who supposedly put the sign on the tree. It's jungle like in there with a reasonable amount of canopy. What a place to ride though. It's great! Pat | |||||