Summit Views
From the highest of everything. Not always great views, but still the view from the top.
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The summit of Pine Mountain offers a unique sight in the White Mountains - a flat, grooved slab, tilted at a moderate angle. The grooves are probably caused by the varying hardness of the layers of rock. This rock is metamorphic - it started as a sedimentary rock, layered from many cycles or seasons of deposition by wind or water, and was modified by heat and pressure into its current form. The layers were not of equivalent hardness, and ages of rain and cold/ heat cycles have eaten away at some layers more than others. See also… 8/1/2001 |
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Pine Mountain Upslope View of Mt. Madison and Mt. Adams Perspective offers a foreshortened view of the Howker Ridge (directly ahead). The Osgood Ridge blocks the horizon to the left, leading to the summit of Mt. Madison (the left of the two closely spaced summits). The most visible summit is actually the summit of Mt. Quincy Adams, with the summit of Mt Adams itself probably the tiny highest point of the visible summit. The cause of the braided texture on the ridge is not known to us. The dark color indicates that those are pines, possibly with lanes of deciduous trees marking the braid. While there are trails in the area (the Pine Link goes up to the left foreground ridge summit), nothing travels through the marked area. Perhaps fire or weather are responsible. See also… 8/1/2001 |
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The view to the east from Pine Mountains shows the Moriah summits. The trees are taller than krummholz, but smaller than their valley bound counterparts. See also… 11/25/2001 |
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Peak Mountain / Metacomet Trail - An Outlook Trail Just Beyond The Peak Mountain Summit Just past the rocky summit, the trail splits, with a small leg leading out to an exposed and precarious outlook among rocky spikes about a hundred or so feet above the slope below. The edge is marked with stunted cedars and some regular bushes that barely subsist on the poor soil. See also… 11/24/2001 |
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Peak Mountain / Metacomet Trail - Haze And Atmospheric Perspective A view from the summit of Peak Mountain looks down on the valley below. On this late winter day, the haze and atmospheric perspective are particularly strong, despite a clear sky and crisp temperatures in the fifties. In the distance, we can see where the Farmington River has strayed from the ridge. It will later join the ridge down next to the Tariffville Gorge section of the Metacomet trail. See also… 12/4/2001 |
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