Fragments of an Earlier World

Old Man of the Mountain

Obverse:

Old Man of the Mountain, Mt. Horrid, Rochester Vt.

Publisher:

unknown

MNM#01-01311

A 1911 account of an ascent of Mount Horrid by botanist D. Lewis Dutton locates the Old Man of the Mountain as just above Haystack Rock, a large freestanding boulder visible from Brandon Gap at the east end of the Great Cliff. The postcard photo was taken from a much closer viewpoint.

GPS N 43° 50' 43.0", W 72° 57' 37.3"

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