> > Of course, I was also thinking "WHAT Old Woman of the Mountain?"
> >
> > :-)
>
> That part was absolutely true.

Yes. I seem to recall mention of another Face being elsewhere on Profile Mountain. The State Park highway authority has done a beautiful job putting in various viewing vantage points and lookout stops, such that the natural flow of traffic along the I-93 hardly seems affected.

I'm still wondering which other parts of Sam's ostensible "camping trip" are true. Did anyone actually do any camping? :-) While Dave and Darien were busy trading jibes about alleged papasan chairs -- well, what are these papasan anyway, I'd still like to know -- I was off canoeing blissfully on Slavery Lake, without a care in the world. Later on that day, we spent the afternoon relaxing with my mother-in-law's cottage garden, encouraging baby toads and wood frogs to reside in her flower beds because they control the insects, and discussing whether we should invert some old flower pots and cut holes into them to create "Toad Houses" to keep the amphibians happy. All this time, I was happily unaware that Dave had decided to take over the world with a fake *non-camping* post from Sam...


> Like I said, it's half way down the mountain, half the size, and half as detailed, and it's not visible at quite the same angle

Half the size, half the calories maybe, but still twice the caffeine right? :-)


> as where everybody stops to look at the Old Man, so nobody really notices. And it's admittedly a bit of a stretch, but there is, in fact, the profile of what looks like a curmudgeonly old woman visible a bit down the road to the left of where the old man can be seen.

Ah. I hear that the Great Stone Face (the main one of course) is the most famous of NH's natural scenic wonders. It certainly is impressive, and as a tourist attractive it's very well managed. Just how "natural" is it, however, when there's two gigantic turnbuckles screwed into the forehead slab to hold it up, and the rest of the face is held together with fiberglass sheets and epoxy glue? Were it left up to the natural forces of erosion, that 25 ton forehead slab would have fallen down two decades ago, scraping the face's nose off in the process, and maybe even squashing any Quebec tourists stupid enough to stand underneath it (Score!). And with the Old Man fallen down, Sam wouldn't have to worry about any more idiotic Quebec drivers gawping at the former scenic wonder and running head-on into oncoming tractor-trailers. That's right! It would be a win-win situation all around, if only we were wise enough and humble enough to let Profile Mountain return to its natural destiny in the great wilderness.

Wolf "and the parts about canoeing and Toad Houses were true ^_^" spirit