After reaching Stowe and turning left off VT-100 onto VT-108, one can get this view. The upper half of this picture is a photograph I took of Mt Mansfield; the bottom half is from a leaflet entitled The Tundra Walk, and it shows why, to quote from Joe Glickman and Nels Akerlund’s book, To the Top: Reaching for America’s 50 State Summits, “Viewed from the east, Mansfield’s two-mile-long profile purportedly looks like a face (especially if you’ve been drinking heavily)”! |