Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mountains, hills, or prairie, it looks like a relaxing place for a vacation. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com Original Message: ----------------- From: Jerry Lehrer glehrer@san.rr.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:02:18 -0700 To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] My time at Big Sky Chris, Big Sky ? I assume you have never seen Montana. Your "hills" look like rolling prairie to me. Jerry Chris Saganich wrote: > Each summer we try to take a holiday to Big Sky, which is a house > built on top of a large hill, (some call them mountains) in the town > of Halcott, NY. They aren't mountains in the sense that they weren't > caused directly by an orogeny event but rather the uplift of an entire > sedimentary plateau which was deposited during the Acadian orogeny. > Today the plateau resembles a mountain range due to the subsequent > erosion by streams and the widening of valleys and rounding of hills > by glaciers. Look at some pictures mostly not of eroded hills. The > house is at about 3000 feet which is high for New Yorkers. > > <http://www.imagebrooklyn.com/Vacation%202008/Halcott%202008%20Page/halcott_ 2008_thumbpage.htm> > > > "I _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web