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The White Mountains Sailors approaching East Coast harbors frequently mistake the pale peaks of the White Mountains—the highest range in the northeastern United States—for clouds. via The White Mountains Travel Guide – USATODAY.
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This segment describes alpine garden ecology in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Includes a description of cirques and arêtes on Whiteface Mountain, artifacts of glaciers that moved through the high peaks region. Alpine wildflowers include blue gentian and mountain sandwort. Excerpted from the television documentary “Footprints of the Ice Age: the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Upstate New York”
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This is one of the books that lives on the bookcase by my desk for quick reference…I swear by the series. Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains (Longstreet Highlands Innactive Series) With these three guidebooks to the mountains of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, the publisher launches a series that promises to include Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, New Hampshire, and
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“For a 1950s kid from the Bronx, `The Mountains’ (Sullivan County, New York) was a familiar, essential, alternate universe. Philip Ratzer’s nexus was Pesekow’s Bungalow Colony on the shores of redundantly named Loch Sheldrake Lake. His affectionate, vivid recollections center on this small summer resort and the adjacent village of Loch Sheldrake. Ruby the Knish Man, who stopped at Pesekow’s,
Keep readingClingmans Dome (or Clingman’s Dome) is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. At an elevation of 6643 feet (2025 m), it is the highest mountain in the Great Smokies, the highest point in the state of Tennessee, and the highest point along the 2174-mile (3499 km) Appalachian Trail.
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For all of you non-motorized two-wheelers out there looking for a place to ride, I found this at Amazon… Off the Beaten Track: North Georgia (Mountain Bike Guide) First published in 1992, Jim Parham’s Off The Beaten Track mountain bike trail guides are still the guidebooks of choice when it comes to mountain biking in the Southeast. This 4th revised
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South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties — probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America — Leonard W. Roberts recorded this
Keep readingMonte Sano, Spanish for “Mountain of Health,” rises more than 1,600 feet above sea level. The mountain has attracted visitors since the mid 1820’s with the establishment of the town of Viduta, a derivative of the Spanish word “Vida,” meaning life. Viduta was home to a sanatorium and a hotel resort, Hotel Monte Sano, which opened its doors in 1887
Keep reading“Cades Cove” is musically hiked with Greg in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Enjoy this hiking master piece. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Keep readingWe’re “walking into spring” with New River Gorge National Park Rangers. They’re pointing out the simple gifts that grow in the gorge–wildflowers for which our state is famous. Video Rating: 5 / 5
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