Mad Townie
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Its name, in the Penobscots' language, means "greatest mountain." The reasons you state certainly are part of it, particularly the remoteness.
Then there's Governor Baxter's gift language that says it shall remain forever "the mountain of the people of Maine." This man's single handed work in preserving the area and making it public land was huge.
But it's also rugged. Though it doesn't have the winds of Mt. Washington, it's one of those places from which you can't get anywhere quickly. Thus you're really on your own in the wilderness (in the winter, anyway), and even a minor injury can be a pretty serious thing.
Finally, this is Maine. We don't have a whole lot of mountains, especially mountains that have this kind of exposure, so we cherish what we do have. To us it really is the "greatest mountain."
But language just doesn't cut it. You have to experience it.
Then there's Governor Baxter's gift language that says it shall remain forever "the mountain of the people of Maine." This man's single handed work in preserving the area and making it public land was huge.
But it's also rugged. Though it doesn't have the winds of Mt. Washington, it's one of those places from which you can't get anywhere quickly. Thus you're really on your own in the wilderness (in the winter, anyway), and even a minor injury can be a pretty serious thing.
Finally, this is Maine. We don't have a whole lot of mountains, especially mountains that have this kind of exposure, so we cherish what we do have. To us it really is the "greatest mountain."
But language just doesn't cut it. You have to experience it.
