mirabela
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Short report copied from an email to a hiker friend --
Today Isidora and I snowshoed Mt. Abraham in VT (4,006'). We got to the top at noon and spent half an hour there in only a light breeze; we watched the clouds drop to undercast and then fade away altogether to reveal the Adirondacks and Green Mountains complete under sky so blue it could make your teeth hurt. The sunlight filtering through the shifting clouds went through all kinds of interesting changes from gray to silver to lilac to gold, with strange deep shadow effects like rapidly cycling through thirty different pair of polarized sunglasses or something. It was pretty incredible. The trip down was gloriously warm and blindingly sunny. Definitely on the top-five-prettiest-hikes-ever list. We were the only people on the mountain. What a day.
These pictures, as is often the case, don't begin to capture what it was like, but they're what we got, so --
Today Isidora and I snowshoed Mt. Abraham in VT (4,006'). We got to the top at noon and spent half an hour there in only a light breeze; we watched the clouds drop to undercast and then fade away altogether to reveal the Adirondacks and Green Mountains complete under sky so blue it could make your teeth hurt. The sunlight filtering through the shifting clouds went through all kinds of interesting changes from gray to silver to lilac to gold, with strange deep shadow effects like rapidly cycling through thirty different pair of polarized sunglasses or something. It was pretty incredible. The trip down was gloriously warm and blindingly sunny. Definitely on the top-five-prettiest-hikes-ever list. We were the only people on the mountain. What a day.
These pictures, as is often the case, don't begin to capture what it was like, but they're what we got, so --
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