First of all, to avoid any confusion as we go along, Mount Everett is not Mount Everest.

Mount Everett is nestled in the southwest corner of Massachusetts in a wonderfully wooded part of the Berkshires.

Mount Everett is easy to ascend.

The pines on Mount Everett have bitten down on the mountain and are not letting go.

Mount Everett, for instance, is in the Berkshires, although a particularly rural corner where some roads are not maintained in the winter.

The area has attracted city dwellers at least since Emerson, who wrote a poem about Mount Everett.

When she first became involved with protecting Mount Everett, Ms. Tillinghast said, "I didn't know what trees I was looking at."

It heads mostly northbound, east of Mount Everett and the southern Taconic mountain range.

Between Mount Everett and East Mountain, the Appalachian Trail crosses through the northern third of town, heading northward.

The Appalachian Trail runs through the reservation, crossing the summit of Mount Everett.