To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:23:43 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] the old man of the mountain
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:30:45 -0500 Kit Mason <kit at hers.com> writes:

> "Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
> > More recently, there was Richard C. Hoagland, who saw faces and
> whole cities in Viking pictures of Mars in which most people only saw
> random piles of rocks.  I wonder who he thinks carved the "old man of
> the mountain" in New Hampshire.
>

> >From what I heard a while back, the area had a few rockslides and
> the locals started rebuilding the Old Man's profile by securing the
> rocks with cables and such...
>
> Kit
>

I just checked on the web, and it does say that cables are now being used
to stabilize the formation.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/old_man.html

It should be noted that New Hampshire's "old man of the mountain" only
looks like a face in profile, and only as seen from within a certain
narrow range of angle.  Thoughtfully, they have provided a number of
convenient viewing locations along I-93 northbound.  The profile itself
is estimated to be between 2,000 and 10,000 years old, and was formed
naturally.

Ron Kean

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