April 24th, 2004
Seven Sisters - Western MA
An email from Juliana V allowed me to name some of the flowers photographed on this hike, it also alerted me to an error I have been making in the identity of Titan's Piazza.

Having seen the feature marked on the map and then encountering a broad expanse of open rock I made the connection between the two based on my understanding of a piazza as an open space used as a meeting place. It transpires that Titan's Piazza is actually a formation of basalt lava columns further down the cliff face. I will have to go explore this feature sometime soon.
I also found an excellent web site devoted to the Holyoke Range with much historical information that can be found here.

  1 - 11:29am Notch Parking Lot 23 - 2:43pm A Close Encounter
  2 - 11:31am Trail Head 24 - 2:47pm Red Tail Hawk
  3 - 11:39am Oh yeah! Rocks! 25 - 2:47pm More Four Legged Company
  4 - 11:46am Mt Norwottuck and a ghost 26 - 2:53pm Trail Log Humour
  5 - 11:54am Early Bloomers 27 - 3:05pm View From Another Sister
  6 - 12:07pm Dickens gets a treat 28 - 3:06pm Mt Holyoke at last
  7 - 12:09pm Dickens - Mountain Dog 29 - 3:14pm Mt Holyoke across Taylor's Notch
  8 - 12:36pm A little Shade 30 - 3:18pm Taylor's Notch
  9 - 12:44pm Nature Recycles 31 - 3:25pm Light in the dark
10 - 12:50pm Easy Going 32 - 3:34pm Summit Snack Spot
11 - 12:54pm A little up 33 - 3:49pm Summit Plaque
12 - 1:04pm Old tower base 34 - 3:50pm The Summit House
13 - 1:05pm View From The Top 35 - 4:06pm Slippery Slope
14 - 1:05pm Looking ahead 36 - 4:14pm Follow the Blazes
15 - 1:10pm A Small Memorial 37 - 4:15pm Another Early Bloomer
16 - 1:20pm Going down 38 - 4:23pm Ice Scarred Ledge
17 - 1:31pm Quagmire 39 - 4:24pm Golden Retriever
18 - 1:42pm A Rocky Scramble 40 - 4:25pm Connecticut River south of the Range
19 - 1:43pm No shortage of hand/foot holds 41 - 4:28pm Mountainside Pool
20 - 2:11pm View from a Sister 42 - 4:29pm Dark Waters
21 - 2:11pm Green Mountains, Vermont 43 - 4:38pm Aerial Playtime
22 - 2:31pm Another scramble 44 - 4:51pm Dude! That's my car!

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