Adirondack photo quiz

[Raymond]

Identify the scene. Please don’t answer more than one a day; give others a chance.

(I didn’t make it to the Catskills this year. Actually, not the last three years, so my apologies to those of you whose bailiwick is farther south.)

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[audrey]

#9. Colden-Avalanche-Algonquin-Wright. From Phelps?
Some of the others look familiar, but my ADK associations aren't as intimate as NH and ME.

 

[ADKdremn]

#7
Traversing the red slime of wonderful Allen Mt!

 

[PA Ridgerunner]

8. From Indian Falls, looking toward Mt. Colden.

 

[1ADAM12]

#1. Is it the trail going to the Garden Parking?

 

[Adk_dib]

#5: Is that top of Hurricane?

 

[DreamFarmer]

#9-top of Phelps
#1- trail to Marcy Dam from the Loj ?

 

[DSettahr]

4: Scarface trail.

 

[Raymond]

I guess this one was a little tougher than the New Hampshire quiz I posted right after this one. You’ve identified half of them so far.

1. Van Hoevenberg Trail just northwest of Marcy Dam
2. ?
3. ?
4. Bridge on Scarface Trail
5. No, not Hurricane.
6. ?
7. Allen
8. Colden from Indian Falls
9. Colden etc. from Phelps. Right on the money, Audrey.
10. ? That was the one photo in the bunch taken as far back as 2007, but I doubt it has changed much in the last year.

I just noticed that my 1980 ADK map calls the trail Van Hoevenberg and the mountain Van Hoevenburg. I think the E is correct.

 

[ADKdremn]

#5
Upper Wolfjaws?

 

[Grumpy]

#3 appears to be some kind of property line survey marker. My w.a.g. is that it marks a boundary between the Adirondack Loj property and State of New York land somewhere around Heart Lake.

The 19/22 inscription probably indicates the year of the line survey. At that time, if I am not mistaken, the Adirondack Loj property belonged to the Lake Placid Club.

G.

 

[Bhoody]

10 = Carson?

Number 10 - Carson (South Dix)??

 

[PA Ridgerunner]

I just noticed that my 1980 ADK map calls the trail Van Hoevenberg and the mountain Van Hoevenburg. I think the E is correct.

yup -- (adding characters to meet minimum requirement)

 

[ALGonquin Bob]

2. Fire tower... stairs missing.... Hurricane tower?
5. I think ADKdremn is right - Upper WJ?
6. (edit) DEC sign post at parking lot just over the bridge on Coreys Road (trail to Raquette River)

 

[Mark Schaefer]

Number 10 - Carson (South Dix)??

This was my first guess as well, and I believe it is probably correct. However, I was debating whether or not the boulders were large enough to be Carson.

So I will hazard my second guess for #10: the Macomb slide (on the current herd path route).

 

[Puma concolor]

#2 - St. Regis firetower, perhaps.

 

[Bhoody]

#5

near the summit of Hopkins??!!

 

[Raymond]

I thought Number 5 would be one of the easy ones, but I guess it’s not. Wolfjaws and Hopkins are both wrong. You folks couldn’t have known this, but I finished my Forty-Six almost exactly a year before I began using a digital camera, and as I don’t own a scanner (to convert my old slides or prints), or had enough reason (or taken the time) to revisit about half the peaks since my dear old Olympus OM-1 died, the Great Range, among other mountains, remains captured only on film.

ALGonquin Bob has correctly identified the Hurricane Mountain fire tower for Number 2. I wasn’t sure if the removed steps was a common feature or not, but thought it might be enough to identify the tower by. The sign post in Number 6, however, is not at Coreys.

Bhoody and Mark (with his original hunch) are correct with South Dix for Number 10, and Grumpy is remarkably close with his deduction for Number 3. I had thought of offering this picture

as a hint for that one, because one scene is above the other, but I thought it would make it too obvious. I am sure you now all recognize that #3’s location is right at the beginning of the herd path to Street and Nye.

There are still two awaiting identification:

1. Van Hoevenberg Trail
2. Hurricane Mountain fire tower
3. property marker on Street-Nye herd path
4. Bridge on Scarface Trail
5. ?
6. ?
7. Allen
8. Colden from Indian Falls
9. Colden, Avalanche Pass, MacIntyre Range from Phelps. (One I reclimbed just for the heck of it in September, along with Table Top, after climbing TR Mountain.)
10. South Dix/Carson

 

[Raymond]

Maybe this will help with one of the unidentified ones:

I don’t think I can get it any bigger than that, I’m sorry to say.

 

[teejay]

#5. (From) Ampersand??

teejay