PHOTO OF THE DAY December 12, 2004  

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Where Adirondack State Park, New York
When 1997
Photographer Maria Stenzel

A blanket of snow and an ominous sky cloak Ampersand Mountain. Some disdainfully call the Adirondacks "topographic hiccups" rather than mountains, but most of the park's 46 High Peaks rise above 4,000 feet [1,219 meters].

(Photograph from "Adirondack High," June 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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