It’s been about a year…

GWC... · 04-30-2004, 10:19 AM

…since New Hampshire’s Old Man fell.

New Hampshire’s Old Man of the Mountain fell out of sight a year ago, but he is hardly out of mind.

Grant · 04-30-2004, 01:35 PM

Weird, I remember exactly where I was when i heard...

nj2nh · 04-30-2004, 07:35 PM

I remember, too. We were in the car and a friend of ours called us on the cell phone to tell us the news. I started balling my eyes out. You would think I had lost a close family friend. Well, we all did, didn't we?

Jersey Girl

madrasahs · 04-30-2004, 07:51 PM

"I long for wildness… woods where the wood thrush
forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones,
and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever
unproven… a New Hampshire everlasting and unfallen."
— Henry David Thoreau

Thanks to http://wwwspnhf.org/what/everlasting.html

Well, there's still the early morning hours....

Frdxplorer · 05-01-2004, 12:42 PM

Isn't that funny that so many remember exactly where they were when they heard. I mean I know it is common for such tragic events like 9-11 to cause this to happen but, although quite a shame, I wouldn't put the Old Man caving in on the level of JFK or 9-11. However, I guess to those of us who hold NH near and dear it was quite an event in our lives. I too remember hearing at the end of a Headline News news cast that it had fallen. I was in my friends dorm at college and I shocked. Being in PA not many people even knew of the Old Man so they all thought I was a little nuts for worrying so much about a rock formation.

meredith necker · 05-02-2004, 09:23 AM

I heard that now when you go to the Old Man and look through those binocular things that you can actually the old Old Man, as it was.

GWC... · 05-02-2004, 02:42 PM

***** On Monday, state officials will mark the anniversary of the Old Man’s collapse by unveiling special view finders that will allow visitors to look at the cliff face and see a super-imposed image of Old Man of the Mountain as he was.
That evening in Manchester, state officials will also kick off their fund-raising drive for their Mountain Legacy Fund. Money raised will be used to build a museum at the base of Cannon Mountain.
The visitor information center, gift shop and small museum at the viewing site will open in mid-May. *****

zantheman · 05-04-2004, 07:34 AM

I bought a great sweatshirt last summer at Wiers with a picture of the Old Man and the date of the collapse. I've gotten some pretty interesting comments about it. Went through the Notch last March before he fell, haven't been through since even though I was at Bretton Woods this winter.

Alex
Lake Hopatcong, NJ

SIKSUKR · 05-04-2004, 09:33 AM

I have been fortunate enough to see the old man maybe a thousand times in my 30+ years skiing Cannon MT.After all those years I would still get goose bumps looking up at him every weekend on my way to Franconia.I happened to be in the Carribean sailing and heard the news on CNN.What an awful feeling that was hearing the news.
I just finished my last ski weekend of the year last weekend and stopped to look at what's left.The turnbuckles are clearly visable against a blue sky reaching out away from where the old man used to sit.Very sad sight.My weekly ride through the notch will never be the same. SS

04-30-2004, 10:19 AM	#1
GWC... Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,325 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	It’s been about a year… …since New Hampshire’s Old Man fell. New Hampshire’s Old Man of the Mountain fell out of sight a year ago, but he is hardly out of mind.

04-30-2004, 07:35 PM	#3
nj2nh Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 529 Thanks: 80 Thanked 47 Times in 27 Posts	I remember, too . . . . I remember, too. We were in the car and a friend of ours called us on the cell phone to tell us the news. I started balling my eyes out. You would think I had lost a close family friend. Well, we all did, didn't we? Jersey Girl

05-02-2004, 09:23 AM	#6
meredith necker Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: meredith neck and bear island Posts: 48 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Old Man I heard that now when you go to the Old Man and look through those binocular things that you can actually the old Old Man, as it was.

05-02-2004, 02:42 PM	#7
GWC... Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,325 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Mountain Legacy Fund starts Monday... *** On Monday, state officials will mark the anniversary of the Old Man’s collapse by unveiling special view finders that will allow visitors to look at the cliff face and see a super-imposed image of Old Man of the Mountain as he was. That evening in Manchester, state officials will also kick off their fund-raising drive for their Mountain Legacy Fund. Money raised will be used to build a museum at the base of Cannon Mountain. The visitor information center, gift shop and small museum at the viewing site will open in mid-May. ***

05-04-2004, 09:33 AM	#9
SIKSUKR Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,075 Thanks: 215 Thanked 903 Times in 509 Posts	I have been fortunate enough to see the old man maybe a thousand times in my 30+ years skiing Cannon MT.After all those years I would still get goose bumps looking up at him every weekend on my way to Franconia.I happened to be in the Carribean sailing and heard the news on CNN.What an awful feeling that was hearing the news. I just finished my last ski weekend of the year last weekend and stopped to look at what's left.The turnbuckles are clearly visable against a blue sky reaching out away from where the old man used to sit.Very sad sight.My weekly ride through the notch will never be the same. SS __________________ SIKSUKR

04-30-2004, 01:35 PM	#2
Grant Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Pennsyltuckey, Tuftonboro, Moultonborough Posts: 1,500 Thanks: 375 Thanked 230 Times in 124 Posts	Weird, I remember exactly where I was when i heard...

04-30-2004, 07:51 PM	#4
madrasahs Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 381 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	"I long for wildness… woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproven… a New Hampshire everlasting and unfallen." — Henry David Thoreau Thanks to http://wwwspnhf.org/what/everlasting.html Well, there's still the early morning hours....

05-01-2004, 12:42 PM	#5
Frdxplorer Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: York, PA Posts: 234 Thanks: 2 Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts	Isn't that funny that so many remember exactly where they were when they heard. I mean I know it is common for such tragic events like 9-11 to cause this to happen but, although quite a shame, I wouldn't put the Old Man caving in on the level of JFK or 9-11. However, I guess to those of us who hold NH near and dear it was quite an event in our lives. I too remember hearing at the end of a Headline News news cast that it had fallen. I was in my friends dorm at college and I shocked. Being in PA not many people even knew of the Old Man so they all thought I was a little nuts for worrying so much about a rock formation.

05-04-2004, 07:34 AM	#8
zantheman Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I bought a great sweatshirt last summer at Wiers with a picture of the Old Man and the date of the collapse. I've gotten some pretty interesting comments about it. Went through the Notch last March before he fell, haven't been through since even though I was at Bretton Woods this winter. Alex Lake Hopatcong, NJ