dcr
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Registered: February 2004
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A shot from Belknap Point last winter when we had relatively little snow compared to this year, when we could challenge long-time records for snowfall totals. Note that there are 2 Flat Mts at the left - the left-most one really is relatively flat, but the one further right certainly does not have anything like a flat summit, so why it's called Flat Mt is harder to understand. Also, there are 2 peaks named Black Snout in the Ossipees, both of which can form profiles that can look like a nose - the black color comes from the spruce that covers these high peaks. In the 1800's the entire summit of Mt Shaw was called Black Snout, until it was renamed Mt Shaw to honor the creator of the early tourist attraction called Ossipee Park, which was a very important addition to the Moultonboro economy of that day. Then only the southern peak, the part of the mountain most easily seen by the locals, was still called Black Snout. How and when the western Black Snout got its name I have never heard explained.
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