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okay so here I am I'm at the base of the
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um Auto to Toll Road in St got my
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driving um so read about this road and
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some people say like it's really scary
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it's so narrow and it goes up and really
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Steep and and then some people say oh my
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gosh it's so beautiful it's amazing you
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have to do it um so I don't know
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um to be perfectly honest I probably
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wouldn't do it if it weren't for you
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guys cuz I already did uh The Smuggler
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Notch Drive this morning that was
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beautiful I highly recommend that I'm
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going to have a video about that
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too um and you know you can also take
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the gondola gondola ride up to the top
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of the mountain pretty easy don't have
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to drive but you know what we're going
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to do it we're going to drive to the top
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cuz somebody's got to let you know is it
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scary is it awesome is it worth the cost
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cuz you got to pay for this um how do
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you get there what do you do yep so
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we're going to go here we
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go so the beginning of the drive is
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pretty easy um it's not too steep not
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too narrow it's only paved at the very
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very beginning up until you get into the
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woods and then it becomes a dirt road um
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but it's not too steep at the beginning
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there's lots of beautiful Fall Foliage
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to look at if you're in the fall I guess
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in the summer there would just be pretty
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leaves um and there are a lot of places
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you can pull over to the side and stop
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and take pictures along the whole
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Drive the first half of the drive is
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just kind of through the woods around
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the bottom of the mountain it's not too
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intense not too scary you can see the
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road's not super broad um but there is
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room to get by as we passed a couple
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here H lots of Fall Foliage really
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pretty not too scary and then you're
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going to come up on the mountain Chapel
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there's a a good parking area there you
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can stop get out take some pictures
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stretch your legs walk around uh if you
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want to turn around and go back and
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you're like that's good enough for me
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you totally can do that here um as it
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does get steeper and more intense after
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this part of the drive
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if you're coming in the fall um the
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foliage do turn sooner the higher the
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elevation you are um so I was here like
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the first week of October and you can as
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you can see the higher we go the more
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Fall Foliage we're going to
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see and then as you get further up the
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mount you're going to see less of the
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Fall Foliage and you're going to see
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this is the part of the drive where
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you're going to start seeing more
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mountain Vistas if you look off to your
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right you can really see the view is
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going to be beautiful um a little bit
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scary this is the part where you're like
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oh my gosh I am on the edge of a
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I'm coming up here um to one of the
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viewpoints where you can pull over and
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stop get out take a picture they've got
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some uh self skis there's some skis set
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up where you can take a selfie and you
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can really see where how like the fun
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trap family would think yeah these you
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kind of remind me of Austria uh they are
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really beautiful mountain views up
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here they're definitely parts of this
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drive where it gets narrow and if there
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are other cars coming you're thinking
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how are we going to fit but the views
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the switchbacks get pretty intense as
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you get towards the top of the mountain
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so we're coming up on the visitor center
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and the parking lot here at the top of
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the auto Toll Road in
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Stow um there are no bathrooms in The
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Visitor Center just the Porta botties uh
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view then there is a hiking trail that
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you can take from The Visitor Center to
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reach the highest point in Vermont um or
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if you just want to go about 10 minutes
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down the hiking trail you can get to
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almost the highest point and get a
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view so the drive back down was actually
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the worst part for me personally um it
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was just kind of scary having to be on
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your brakes basically the whole time
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going back down and I did actually start
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getting pretty nauseous just from all
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the back and forth around the mountain
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and I was pretty okay on the way up but
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I did definitely get nauseous by the
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time I got back down the mountain so at
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the top I was like this is amazing these
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views are awesome I love this um on the
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way down I was like I just get me back
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to the bottom please I can't wait to be
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over get this over with um yeah
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so that's how it went for me
