The afternoon of the day we went to Fort Ticonderoga (September 30), Marie and I did not return to the Celebration on the bus. We played hooky with Larry and went up the Gore Mountain Ski Area gondola. It runs all summer as a tourist attraction, and mountain bikers use the trails too.
The pictures from the gondola aren't as good because the plexiglas was very scratched, but this is looking down the lift.
There is a total of 1700 feet of rise from the bottom to the top. Needless to say, the ski resort has a number of lifts, but this is the popular one for tourists.
Now this is what I call a view! The blue peaks in the distance are the High Peaks. One of them is Marcy [high point in New York]. I could pick it out in person, but in the reduced size picture, I'm not so sure which it is.
Since we could see Gore Mountain from the Moxham Mountain hike, I asked if you could see Moxham from Gore. The lift operator told me where to look on the way down. I think that cliff standing out by itself is Moxham. You know I love figuring out how I fit into the landscape.
The name Gore Mountain has nothing to do with being bloody. At the Adirondack History workshop I attended at the Celebration, we learned that the whole central portion of the Adirondacks was surveyed not on N-S lines, but at a 45 degree angle to that. So where that area adjoins other areas surveyed in the normal manner, there are triangular sections. If you have ever sewed clothes, you probably know what a gored skirt is... a skirt made from triangles. Gores are also inserted in things like sails. Guess what those triangular sections of land were called. Now guess where Gore Mountain is located. I knew you could do it!
Well, ok... there is probably some etomological relationship between the meanings. They both may hark back to German and Old English where various forms of gehre and gar meant a spear or a spearhead, which are triangular, and the use of such an item to gore someone resulted in bloodshed... to be gory.
I edited in the day, and had a program this evening. That's enough for one day!
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2 comments:
Lulu: "Ahh, so there aren't any oxen running around on Gore Mountain chasing people with their big horns? Oh well! I guess that might interfere with enjoying the view anyway!"
Ann- it sure is!
Lulu- well, a couple of doggies rode up in the gondolas. On leashes, of course
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