"... yawning with age and satisfied to lie there comfortably under the sun... worn down like old hounds teeth... all done with the battles fought by young mountains like the Rockies and the Sierras... the oldest mountains on the continent... furred with oak and hickory and time, and are as serene about their clear, frisky rivers as old animals are with the new litter playing across their bellies..."
- Mitch Jayne
... viewing the bottom Youghiogheny River Valley and westward across the Allegheny Plateau from high atop Chestnut Ridge...
