I’m the blue dot - they were goose hunting in the small field behind (just NW of blue dot). It was an old cornfield then and they were shooting geese passing low to check out the surrounding cornfields. A shot goose had crash landed in a neighbor’s aboveground pool during a kid’s birthday party the year before we moved in, so the neighborhood posted the whole HOA property.
Our HOA owns a lot of woods around the 19-home development, which we posted. We get people parking right by the signs to hunt - I just leave a note on the windshield but other neighbors call the cops. The bigs woods at the top center is another owner’s property and posted as well, to keep the St Anselm’s College kids out (they buy beer at the Ivging/Circle K by 114) as well as the US Secret Service ATVs that comb the woods during NH Primary season every 4 years (that’s a long story - the candidates all debate at St Anselm’s NH Institute of Politics, just through the woods).
The first winter, we had snowmobiles come down my street from the pole line and up the drainage gully between my house and the neighbor’s house. One rolled his snowmobile and couldn’t get it out as the gully is steep-sided and was drifted deep. I got home from work to find a truck in my driveway with guys trying to pull it out. I said, get it done and don’t come back - it’s a private neighborhood. There was no way to get a snowmobile through the thick woods had they made it into my backyard - it’s was not an “old trail”.
People just have to update their thinking when the woods they knew turn into housing developments. Everybody’s yard was once woods/fields…
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