Epic Hikes of the World ( PDFDrive )

boulders to reach the summit near dusk, an awe-inspiring experience in the grey
winter light. After dark, we retraced the trail back down the mountain, a single-file
row of headlamp-clad silhouettes against the mountain’s ghostly white flanks.
“After dark we formed a single-file row of headlamp-clad silhouettes
against the mountain’s ghostly white flanks”
HUMP DRAWN ON QUARTERS
One of Vermont’s unmissable icons, the distinctive profile of Camel’s Hump
(4083ft, 1244m) has long stirred people’s imaginations. The native Abenaki called
it ‘saddle mountain,’ and French explorer Samuel de Champlain dubbed it ‘le lion
couchant’ (the sleeping lion). Back in the early 2000s, when the United States
treasury minted commemorative quarters for every state in the union, artists
competing to design Vermont’s coin were given just one requirement: the Camel’s
Hump had to appear somewhere in the picture!