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World-Wide Guide to Swimming Holes The Punch Bowl
(hole_name) The Punch Bowl (Water_type) River (Location) On the Mad River, Warren, VT (Directions) Just under 2 miles south of Waitsfield on Rt. 100. Look on the right side of the road for a wooden stockade fence set back in a field. Yestermorrow (a school for owner/builders) is opposite, on the left side of the road. Park on the north end of the field in the grass parking lot. Walk across the field. Swimming is behind the wood fence. (Water_temp) 55-75 F. (Swimmable_Months) June-September (Type_of_bear_that would_swim_here_(Polar-Average-Teddy)) Average (doc) Bucolic. Several roomy pools. Low rocks for shallow diving and sunning. (related) A small, but adaquate beach for kids. A top-notch back-massaging waterfall. Best of all, a firmly-established tradition of clothes-free swimming and sunbathing. A caretaker is onsite to assure that high standards of behavior prevail. (size) 3 (beauty) 5 (access) 9 (access_com) How much easier can it get? (features) Safety, Rocks (safety) 7 (safety_com) The pool by the beach has a gradual slope to 10 ft. (clarity) 8 (clarity_com) It's a river, so heavy rains may ruin its usual clarity (size_com) low rocks- 2-4 ft. (swimsuit) optional (swimsuit_com) Nudity is the norm. (from-name) Al
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