Marc,
Yes, I'm familiar with Katahdin. In the East, it is mountain that stands apart from all others. At 5,267 feet it gets excluded from the one-mile-or-more club, but no other eastern mountain would dare challenge the physical dominance of Katahdin. Also, as you well know, it rises far above its base and presents a more western than eastern profile. Great mountain. I'll bet Jenny is darn proud of it and rightly so. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcboston" <[email protected]> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 4:08:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Eastern and western summits Bob, I really enjoy your mountain submissions! I just got back ( 2 weeks ago) from Baxter State Park. Katahdin is one truly great east coast mountain, not sure if you have been up there but it worth the trip. Though smaller than Washington it is a world apart. I found it to be a tougher climb and much more "frontier" like. A very steep mountain with a superb alpine zone. The knife edge is unlike anything I have seen here in New England. On Jul 28, 12:09 pm, [email protected] wrote: > ENTS, > > Oops! My statement, " The second and fourth images show eastern mountain > scenes." obviously was meant to be western mountain scenes. Alas, as dementia > sets in, I make more and more of these goofs. > > Bob > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected], [email protected], "Sarah > Belchetz-Swenson" <[email protected]> > > Cc: "Paul Dittmer" <[email protected]>, "Carol Gilmour" > <[email protected]>, "Sharl Heller" <[email protected]>, "Claudia Hurley" > <[email protected]>, "Amy Kaiser" <[email protected]>, "Rob > Loomis" <[email protected]>, "Rod MacIver" <[email protected]>, "Mike > Ryan" <[email protected]>, "Eleanor Tillinghast" > <[email protected]>, "Joseph Zorzin" <[email protected]>, "Doug > Seale" <[email protected]>, "Nancy Weiss" <[email protected]>, > "Phoebe Weil" <[email protected]>, "David Stahle" <[email protected]>, > "celeste rounkles" <[email protected]>, "Denis Jakuc" > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:58:11 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Eastern and western summits > > ENTS, > > I'm convinced that I was born under a curse. I'm sentenced to compulsively > make numerical contrasts and comparisons. And with no false modesty, I am > damned good at it. Where others stumble, I see the quantitative nuances. For > me, rounding off numbers, unless absolutely necessary, is a vulgar practice. > I am not alone in my talent. Lee Frelich and Will Blozan are equally gifted. > Lee would never, say, round the number 1,047 by substituting the vague > descriptor "thousands" as newspaper reports frequently do. I guess reporters > think that in introducing imprecision they are capturing the essence of an > idea. Hogwash! > Well, I'm expanding my comparative talents with the camera. I don't yet know > what I'm doing, but it feels right. When I attempt to describe the boldness > of the western landscape in words, it can sound as if I'm diminishing its > eastern equivalent. Not so. At least, not necessarily. However, east and west > are qualitatively and quantitatively different, and where in the past I've > concentrated strictly on numerical measures, I have now added the camera's > all seeing eye. > The first and third of the three attached images show eastern mountain > panoramas. The second and fourth images show eastern mountain scenes. The > vertical relief in these images is approximately the same. Does it look the > same to the eye? BTW, a spin off talent of this cultivated perception is > quickly judging the heights of trees. > As a general observation, western mountain panoramic scenes are usually > painted from a broader color pallet. Land shapes are more angular. Outlines > are sharper. The blue haze of the Appalachians softens features and can > diminish the appearance of significant size. The eastern Catskills are > mountains - not just big hills. > The vegetative covering of western mountains is heavily skewed toward > conifers,; that of the eastern peaks toward hardwoods. Neither is better than > the other, just different. Viva la difference. > > Bob- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
