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Ski magazine (October, 1979):
Ski
That
uncrowded comment was prescient. The ski area at the top of Ascutney, which relied on natural snow to operate, has been closed for quite a few years
Mt. Ascutney, in Windsor County, VT
Just a little southwest of our little hamlet -- it kinda dominates the skyline from downtown.
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Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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Mark Hardy, on Flickr
OK, it ain't Mount Shasta, but it's what we've got!
Ascutney ('real' Abenaki name, Kaskadenak) is a
monadnock (a free standing conical mountain, "isolated hill of bedrock" per
Monadnock | geology ) with a summit of (per Wiki-p) 958 m (3144 ft). It is said to be an extinct volcano. I certainly
hope it's extinct.
Whatever it be, it's a pretty impressive structure.
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* per that "Britannica" citation, Mt. Monadnock (the mountain that put the
Monadnock in
Monadnock, the
sine qua non) is a little taller -- but I guess it's not "free standing"... although it
looks pretty free standing
It does have "Little Monadnock" nearby. But
Dammit, Jim! I'm a biochemist, not a geologist!