is how many mountains there are that cannot be seen from lower altitudes. This Rim Trail photo is only a sampling of those mountains:
History of The White Mountains --- Set 01
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
When walking on the Rim Trail at the summit of Cannon Mountain, what impressed
me
is how many mountains there are that cannot be seen from lower altitudes. This
Rim Trail photo is only a sampling of those mountains:
Bode Miller learned to ski on Cannon Mountain. He claims if you can ski Cannon
you can ski anywhere.
The piles of rocks are trail markers on the Appalachian Trail
The Presidential Range of the White Mountains
Mt. Washington as seen from our driveway
I took this picture in the summer on the Appalachian Trail
This is the Kinsman Range as viewed from our living room
This is Bob and Son Marshall by the cog railroad engine that took us to the
summit of Mt. Washington
White Mountains of New Hampshire --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Mountains_%28New_Hampshire%29
The White Mountains are a mountain range covering about a quarter of the state of New Hampshire and a small portion of western Maine in the United States. Part of the northern Appalachian Mountains, they are the most rugged mountains in New England. The range is heavily visited due to its proximity to Boston and (to a lesser extent) New York City.
Most of the area is public land, including the White Mountain National Forest as well as a number of state parks. Its most famous peak is Mount Washington, which at 6,288 feet (1,917 m) is the highest mountain in the Northeastern U.S. and home to the fastest surface wind gust (231 miles per hour (372 km/h), over 100 m/s, in 1934) measured in the Northern Hemisphere. Mount Washington is one of a line of summits called the Presidential Range, many of which are named after U.S. presidents and other prominent Americans.
In addition, the White Mountains include several smaller groups including the Franconia Range, Sandwich Range, Carter-Moriah Range, Kinsman Range and Pilot Range. In all, there are forty-eight peaks over 4,000', known as a group as the Four-thousand footers.
The Whites are known for their system of alpine huts for hikers, operated by the Appalachian Mountain Club. The Appalachian Trail crosses the area from southwest to northeast.
There has been much discussion of the origin of the name "White Mountains". This name and similar ones such as "White Hills" or "Wine Hills" are found in literature from colonial times. According to tradition, the mountains were first sighted from shipboard off the coast near the Piscataqua estuary. The highest peaks would often be snow-capped. An alternate theory is that the mica-laden granite of the summits looked "white" to observers.
Continued in article
THE NOTCHES: BEDROCK AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE’S WHITE MOUNTAINS
---
http://tim.thorpeallen.net/Research/Papers/Notches.pdf
WhiteMountainHistory.org
http://whitemountainhistory.org/
Resources and Links:
Additional places for more information
Carrigain: With a photo album
Hastings, Maine: With photo album
Johnson and Little Canada: With a photo album
photo album
Album of Watercolors, c.1862
Courtesy Dartmouth College
Library
Art of Homesteading:
The exhibit at the Remick Museum
Bits and Pieces
Interesting,
little known bits of White Mountain History
Bretton Woods, 1884
Describes and pictures the buildings that existed late in the
19th century
Cog Railway
Crawford Notch:
With a photo album and Suggested Reading List
Dartmouth College
Might Have Been in Landaff
Christian Science Church at Fabyans
Early Movies on Mt. Washington
Including 1904 Auto Race up
the Mountain and 1905 First Glidden Tour
Early Homes, Barns and Mills
Volume I Lisbon, Lyman, Landaff and Sugar Hill.
Volume II Bath,
West Bath,
and more of Lyman
(These are remarkable albums.)
Early
Turnpikes:
Tenth New Hampshire Turnpike with
much new information
Jefferson
Turnpike It
still exists and you can drive on it
Winnipissiogee Turnpike(but
it was never built)
Fire Lookout Towers
With
over 40 photos
Fire on the Summit of Mt. Washington, 1908
With photos
One of most informative pages with a 15-minute video discussing
the iron furnace and production and a 22-minute video about the iron mines.
Also a photo album including products of the
Franconia Iron Works.
Historical Markers.
There are over
40 State of New Hampshire Historical Markers within the
White
Mountains.
With Map
Kearsarge Peg Mill:
This peg mill, in
Logging Railroads:
One of the most popular sections of this website and all with
photo albums.
Composite
Map
Showing all the Logging Railroads
What Did It Cost to Build a Logging railroad?
Beebe
River RR
East Branch and
and a photo album of Lincoln
Gale
River Logging Railroad
Gordon
Pond RR
Rocky
Branch RR
Woodstock Lumber Co and photo album of
Woodstock
Maps
of the
Cartography
in the
by Adam Jared Apt
Twenty-Five
Early Maps with Descriptions
Thirty
More
Scarce Maps
1805
Town Survey
Maps created for
the
Carrigian
Map
All of Franklin
Leavitt's Maps
Three
Manuscript maps by Franklin Leavitt
White
Mountain National Forest Maps
Sanborn
Fire Insurance Maps
Paleoindians in the White
Mountains
Introduction by Peter Crane and articles by Dick Boisvert and others
Photographs by J.W. Black 1854
History and photo album of construction of the railroad
Profile & Franconia
Notch Railroad
Redstone Granite Quarries:
Includes two photo albums; one with vintage photos and the other showing the
site as it is today.
Stickney Chapel and Stickney Mausoleum.
Includes the Bretton Woods Boys Choir. Over
50 photos
Summit Hotels and Other
Structures
Tourism and Hotels:
Crawford
House With 3 photo
albums. One
album illustrates
the hotel and surroundings,one includes photos taken at the scene
of the fire
and another with
photos taken at the auction of the contents.
Early
Cabins and Tourist Camps An
entertaining slide show
Fabyan House
With
photo album
Glen
House
With photo album
Metallak
Hotel
A
Grand Hotel to be but it blew down before it was completed.
information about
this hotel)
Profile House With Photo Album
Erika beside our tiny pond
I brag about my Impatiens for the Sun (from a later summer)
A storm cloud as seen from my desk
A sunrise as seen from my desk (one of my favorite pictures)
Mountains
Set 1 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Set01/MountainsSet01.htm
Set 2 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Mountains/Set02/MountainsSet02.htm
This set includes White Mountain hiking trail photographsBob Jensen's Favorite Pictures of Mt. Lafayette 10 Miles Distant
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Mountains/Layfayette01/Lafayette01.htm
With nine pages quoted from Bill Bryson's traumatic climb up Mt. Lafayette
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Anchor Books, 2007)
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
WhiteMountainHistory.org ---
http://whitemountainhistory.org/
Over 70 Historical Photographs ---
http://photos.whitemountainhistory.org/AlbumHomeView.aspx
Blogs of White
Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691
Especially note
the archive of John Compton's blogs at the bottom of the page at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/
AMC White Mountain Guide: Hiking Trails in the White Mountain National
Forest ---
http://books.google.com/books/about/AMC_White_Mountain_Guide.html?id=V6-hFq6yHcAC
Find Hiking Trails --- http://www.traillink.com/?gclid=CPPLy8-wt7ECFYNx4AodR2QAsQ
On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm
Bob
Jensen's Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Our
address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/