Summits
The peaks of New England
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Airline and Israel Ridge Trail - Mount Madison Summit This image shows the nearby summit of Mount Madison. Soft shading indicates the ridges and stronger rocks of the mountain. These mountains originally formed millions of years ago as sediments in a shallow sea that later was crushed and heated under the earth and uplifted to form mountains that were then scoured and degraded by the glacial episodes that ended about 13,000 years ago. See also… 5/20/2005 |
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Airline and Israel Ridge Trail - Adams Summit and Headwall The Adams summit is getting socked in with thin clouds. Below, the headwall of King Ravine is covered with snow-choked gullies. See also… 5/20/2005 |
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Monadnock / Marlboro Trail - Crowded Summit This may seem like a summit with a lot of hikers on it, but for Monadnock in the fall, it's really not too crowded. The cold wind on this clear, crisp day is enough to move people off the summit fairly quickly. Another thing interesting in this picture is the undulating granite surface. Remember that this summit hasn't been exposed for very long - trees were growing here at the end of the 19th century before the fires started. So what you see here is a picture very much like what would be under the soil of many of those New Hampshire summits that have no treeline. Also, this is probably what the summit of Grand Monadnock looked like around 12-15,000 years ago when the ice sheets from the Pleistocene receeded toward the North Pole. See also… 10/11/2004 |
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Monadnock / Marlboro Trail - View of the Summit A cold and windy, but brilliant day, with hikers scattered between the author and the summit, revealing the distance. Like many days, this one finds the summit crowded, and the trails feel less intimate as they converge. See also… 10/11/2004 |
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Lookout Ledge - View of Pine Mountain Pine Mountain is a nearby small mountain to the northeast of Mount Madison. On this day after the rains, the clouds are hovering near the summits, but are thin enough to be letting the light through to the ground below. See also… 8/2/2003 |
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