The Wapack Range of New Hampshire and Massachusetts photographed from Buck Hill.

I originally created this panorama for the documentary film I made last year. Until recently, I had only identified the major peaks that are visible in this image. This now identifies and labels all of the visible peaks of the Wapack Range, which is generally considered to start with Mount Watatic in Massachusetts and continue north to North Pack Monadnock in New Hampshire. There are also three Massachusetts peaks at the leftmost side of the image which are not considered part of the range, as well as Mount Monadnock, which towers above New Ipswich Mountain almost directly behind it. I have added labels. The view is generally looking north-west with a range of about 305 - 320 degrees.

In the foreground are the TV towers located in the Needham/Newtown Highlands. There is another cluster of four towers below North Pack which are just off I-95 in Waltham MA. Several buildings on the campus of Brandeis University are visible to the lower left of these towers.

From left to right, these are all of the peaks labeled in the image with altitude and distance measurements based on Google Earth:

Jewell Hill
Ashburnham MA
1407 ft / 49.84 mi

Little Watatic Mountain
Ashburnham MA
1580 ft / 53.63 mi

Fisher Hill
Ashburnham MA
1536 ft / 53.15 mi

Blood Hill
Ashby MA
1513 ft / 50.93 mi

Watatic Mountain
Ashburnham MA
1837 ft / 53.50 mi

Pratt Mountain
New Ipswich NH
1810 ft / 56.03 mi

Mount Monadnock
Jaffrey NH
3153 ft / 69.09 mi

New Ipswich Mountain
New Ipswich NH
1867 ft / 56.47 mi

Barrett Mountain
New Ipswich NH
1881 ft / 57.19 mi

Kidder Mountain
New Ipswich NH
1803 ft / 56.93 mi

Burton Peak
Sharon NH
2007 ft / 58.81 mi

Temple Mountain
Sharon NH
1956 ft / 59.04 mi

Holt Peak
Sharon NH
2034 ft / 59.18 mi

Pack Monadnock Mountain
Peterborough NH
2281 ft / 60.65 mi

North Pack Monadnock Mountain
Greenfield NH
2258 ft / 61.44 mi

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Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey NH photographed from Buck Hill! This mountain is about 69 miles away and is likely the furthest single object that can be seen from Buck Hill.

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Distinctive “sheep’s back” shape of #MountMonadnock, #NewHampshire, USA

Viewed from near Jeffrey Center, one can discern that the near face is steepest. That face was downstream when the Laurentide Ice Sheet was scouring #NewEngland in the late #Pleistocene. The ice plucked boulders from that side, and ground a more gentle slope on the northwest side.

Monadnock is a popular climb, with many trails. It is 965 m, but is more than 300 m taller than any peak within 50 km. My #landscape #photo

Shape of a sheep or shape of a wig?
Roches moutonnées are glacially scoured rocky hills with planed-off slopes “up glacier”, and steeper “plucked” sides “down glacier” as the ice sucks chunks of rock up. The etymology is obscure:
https://tinyurl.com/mrksjr3b
(Atlantic article).

Many south to southeast slopes in New England are steeper than northwest slopes, e.g., Mount Monadnock in south central New Hampshire, USA.

#geology #glaciology #photo #NewHamphire #NewEngland #mountain #MountMonadnock

Pleistocene glacial striations on Devonian and Neoproterozoic rock in New England. Savin Hill, Middlesex Fells, and Mt Monadnock. See captions for details.

#rocks #glaciology #Boston #MiddlesexFells #MountMonadnock #sedimentary #Medford #Neoproterozoic #Devonian #Pleistocene

Monadnock State Park moss and lichen in New Hampshire

https://www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/monadnock-state-park

#mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Monadnock #MountMonadnock #MtMonadnock #StatePark #NewHampshire #MonadnockReservation