Great Blue Hill
Bracing for impact
By adamg - 12/29/12 - 3:33 pm
Smart Bostonians know it's important to get those space savers out ahead of the storm - as Jenny Mackintosh shows us at Comm. Ave. and Washington in Brighton.
Meanwhile, down at the Blue Hills ski area, skiers were alerted to impending powder:
Morning over the hills
By adamg - 2/29/12 - 9:04 am
Are those snow clouds moving in over the Great Blue Hill this morning? The scene from the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Snow in the Boston area!
By adamg - 1/8/12 - 7:10 pm
OK, granted, it's man made, but if you want to remember what the stuff looks like, you can get a good view of the Great Blue Hill ski slope from Meadow Road in Readville.
Earlier:
What a difference a year makes.
The mystery plaque at the top of the Great Blue Hill
By adamg - 11/30/11 - 6:02 pmWho was Daniel M. Casey and why is there a plaque in his memory at the top of the Hill?
Stairway to heaven
By adamg - 4/14/09 - 10:51 pm
David Parsons went to the very top - of the Eliot Tower on the Great Blue Hill.
Snow already?
By adamg - 12/6/08 - 7:40 pm
OK, it's manmade snow, but still. Sure looks like they're ready for skiers at the Great Blue Hill.
You can get a really good view of the ski run from Meadow Road in Readville, off the Neponset Valley Parkway (it's the road that goes to what used to be the giant Stop & Shop warehouse) - even if you don't have a zoom lens.
Into the light
By adamg - 9/7/08 - 9:28 pm
Looking toward the Great Blue Hill (I think; somebody please correct me if I'm wrong) through a tunnel out of Fort Warren on Georges Island.
The fort is great for such framed views, given that it has zillions of slits and holes for cannons, guns and binoculars:
