[Leica] My time at Big Sky

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

I especially liked standing by pool and the lone tree

looks a lot like north carolina's mountains

ric


On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Chris Saganich wrote:

> Each summer we try to take a holiday to Big Sky, which is a house  
> built on top of a large hill, (some call them mountains) in the town  
> of Halcott, NY.  They aren't mountains in the sense that they   
> weren't caused directly by an orogeny event but rather the uplift of  
> an entire sedimentary plateau which was deposited during the Acadian  
> orogeny.  Today the plateau resembles a mountain range due to the  
> subsequent erosion by streams and the widening of valleys and  
> rounding of hills by glaciers.  Look at some pictures mostly not of  
> eroded hills.  The house is at about 3000 feet which is high for New  
> Yorkers.
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> <http://www.imagebrooklyn.com/Vacation%202008/Halcott%202008%20Page/halcott_2008_thumbpage.htm
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> >
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