Mount Ascutney
Vermont
September 1984
We are on our way up-trail to the summit of Mount Ascutney, a former volcano in Windsor, Vermont. Our snack stop is on Blood Rock.
Blood Rock. In 1925, a self-important gentleman named Houghton Hoisington was using a hand ax to carve his initials in the stone of the overlook. As he was pounding the stone with the business end of the ax, the head flew off. As Hoisington tried to pound it back on, his aim was errant and he pounded instead his wrist, cutting it open. Blood spurted all over the stone outcropping.
Bonehead Rock might be a more appropriate name.