No mystery here. This Middlebury pathway is one of the many orchard roads down which families go to pick their own apples in the fall--or to look for the iPod that the state tourism office has put in orchards in recent years in their "Apples to iPods" program. Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury lends picking families little red wagons to pull along and transport their treasures, and has a treehouse built around one of the older trees for children's entertainment (there's a picture of it in the gallery "Survivor Trees"). As is ofte the case with orchards catering to the U-Pick crowd, pumpkins and gourds and decorative "Indian" corn and baked goods are available at the associated farmstand. Sometimes there are wagon rides, the wagon drawn either by a tractor or a horse. There can be an athletic event aspect as well: for decades, enviably fit and vigorous Jamaican farmworkers have done most of the work of transferring ripe apples to storage bins.