Save The Clock Tower

Stratton Mountain is a ski resort in South-Central Vermont. Besides hosting many competitive alpine ski/snowboard events, the extensive village built around the base of the ski area is often flourishing in the middle of the summer, with golf, mountain biking, and yoga enthusiasts.

Yes, yoga.

This past weekend Stratton welcomed the Wanderlust Festival, which is "about bringing people back to nature - and drawing them out of urban zones." Vermont has a long tradition of music and arts festivals that provide people with experiences which cannot be found anywhere else. I've attended a dozen or so Vermont festivals in the past 20 years, learning to jump at the opportunity to take a weekend, pack up the car and meet some new people in an uncharted (by me) wilderness.


The attendees were all smiles, the venue was immaculate, and the music rocked.

My only complaint was all the electrosmog. As we arrived in the parking lot, I began to feel the tell-tale anxiety that (for me) accompanies radio fields. "No problem," I thought. I brought an RF meter and would simply avoid the "hot spots."

This would prove to be difficult, because smack dab in the middle of the village is a clock tower filled with cell antennas. Normally, cell sites are either obvious, or very hidden. In the case of Stratton's clock tower, the antennas are all visible, but slightly shielded behind large windows.

This physically innocuous microwave transmission facility is anything but safe. One look at the trees surrounding the tower should give you an idea of how powerful the tower really is (click images to enlarge).