George Steffanos on Spoutible

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Then and Now in 2 parts.

Rands View on the slopes of Prospect Mountain along the Appalachian Trail in northwest Connecticut. One pic is from August 14, 1983 during my thru-hike. One is from yesterday, April 8, 2024.
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A soft blue sky with streaky white clouds. Looking down from a spot at the top of a sloping field high on a mountainside across wooded foothills to a long narrow valley below. It is early spring and the field has been mowed at the end of the most recent growing season. Small clumps of straw are strewn throughout the short golden brown grass. A grassy track winds gracefully along the bottom edge of this field and then descends through two lower fields that appear to be pastures. They are divided by a fence line and a parallel line of trees a few feet away. The short grass in these fields is beginning to turn green. There are glimpses of a few more distant fields, but most of the scene is covered with a forest split almost equally between evergreens and leafless hardwoods. The long valley is mostly wooded with strips of fields and a few buildings visible. Beyond that is a long, forested mountain range rising hundreds of feet above the valley. Several rounded peaks are visible.

01:32 PM - Apr 09, 2024

George Steffanos

@GSteffanos

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Looks like a portion of the forest along the bottom edge of the field in 83 is gone. Hard to believe those pines grew that tall in just 41 years (probably less), so perhaps their younger versions were hidden behind the now missing hardwoods. The Taconics look pretty much the same.

Looking down from a spot at the top of a high, sloping pasture at the large green valley below. Through a line of trees at the bottom of the pasture you can glimpse a lower pasture to your left and forest to your right. Beyond that is the large flattish valley, mostly wooded with strips of green fields and a few buildings visible. Beyond that is a forested mountain range rising hundreds of feet above the valley. Several rounded peaks are visible.

01:32 PM - Apr 09, 2024

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