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Subject: [Leica] My time at Big Sky
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Thu Jul 31 14:02:26 2008
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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>
>  
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