Moderate
Mount Wachusett / Balance Rock - Balance Rock
Balance Rock is a glacial remnant, totaling about 20 feet in height (a person comes up to about the join in the rocks. The rocks may have been "stacked" as the glacier melted or (more likely) are the only two remaining of a boulder field shifted or scattered by the glacier. Some of those rocks may be the ones surrounding the clearing. In the 19th century, one could see the valley from this location.
7/5/2002
|
Related
|
| Balance Rock / Old Indian / Harrington / Semuhenna |
| Boulders |
| Geology |
Site and content copyright © 2002 by Mark Cashman
