View of Gore (?) from Stratton

Just got back from 3 days at Stratton (short version: hard hard pack, mixed with ice Monday and Tuesday; today very very soft snow that made the double-blacks accessible to my kids and the blacks feel like high greens).

Monday and Tuesday, which were clearer than today, I noticed from the west (Snowbowl) side of the mountain I could see a large ski mountain very very far in the distance, to the west-northwest, and south of the High Peaks.

I felt certain that it was Gore -- I even thought I could make out the basic contours of the part of mountain where Lies and Rumor are, as well as Uncas, etc. (Note, from Stratton one can see Bromley very clearly, as well as one bit of one trail at Killington, and then all of Mt. Snow from the southeast side - not talking about those views here).

I tried to grab a photo but even at high resolution couldn't make out what I saw.

From the map, it looks right in terms of the way the mountains face.

Does this seem crazy? Could I have been seeing another mountain other than Gore? Clearly I was seeing a mountain in NYS by the distance and direction.

This would imply that on clear day you can see Stratton from Gore as well of course.

Thoughts?

Are you sure it wasn't west? It's not that big but at a distance it's hard to judge things like that. Could you see Lake George? and if so, where was the mountain in relation to the lake? I'm no more then vaguely familiar with either West or Stratton but that seems like a likely candidate based on the map.

West was the only other option I could think of, but it seemed too big, and I also wondered if West was tall enough to peek above. But could have been.

And you can actually see Russia from land in Alaska

I'm told that on the ocean, under clear conditions, you can see no more than 30 miles.

FWIW, on clear day you can see the high peaks of the Presidential Range from the summit of Jay Peak. In a straight line, that is about 75 miles. Stratton summit to Gore is approximately 70 miles

brooklynrob wrote

Just got back from 3 days at Stratton (short version: hard hard pack, mixed with ice Monday and Tuesday; today very very soft snow that made the double-blacks accessible to my kids and the blacks feel like high greens).

Monday and Tuesday, which were clearer than today, I noticed from the west (Snowbowl) side of the mountain I could see a large ski mountain very very far in the distance, to the west-northwest, and south of the High Peaks.

I felt certain that it was Gore -- I even thought I could make out the basic contours of the part of mountain where Lies and Rumor are, as well as Uncas, etc. (Note, from Stratton one can see Bromley very clearly, as well as one bit of one trail at Killington, and then all of Mt. Snow from the southeast side - not talking about those views here).

I tried to grab a photo but even at high resolution couldn't make out what I saw.

From the map, it looks right in terms of the way the mountains face.

Does this seem crazy? Could I have been seeing another mountain other than Gore? Clearly I was seeing a mountain in NYS by the distance and direction.

This would imply that on clear day you can see Stratton from Gore as well of course.

Thoughts?

It is definitely Gore. I took these shots from Stratton, Jan, 2016.

Gore

Gore

High Peaks

@x10003q -- yup, that's the view! I couldn't get those shots clearly from my iPhone, but you captured them really well.

I knew Gore couldn't be too far from purely a "how far one can see point" given I could see the high peaks (which you also well captured). And you can see Rumor, Lies, Top Ridge, Uncas in your photo. Glad I wasn't crazy!!

D.B. Cooper wrote

I'm told that on the ocean, under clear conditions, you can see no more than 30 miles.

That's because you are at sea level. Get up there a few thousand feet, and you can see a lot further.

To some degree.  It ain't just the Pythagorean Theorem.

At 6' tall you can see about 3 miles.  At mid-station (1800'/300x higher than 6' and barring any high peaks) you could see about 52 miles.  That's further, but not 300x further.

The formula is distance (km) is roughly 3.57 x sq root of the height (in m).  No refraction either!