Ledges, Katahdin Brook
- 1915
- Digital pigment print from original Bert Call negative
- Print Size 30 X 22 in / 76.2 x 55.9 cm
- Frame Size 37 X 30 in / 94.0 x 76.2 cm
“Here it fell to my lot, as the oldest mountain-climber, to take the lead: so scanning the woody side of the mountain, which lay still at an indefinite distance, stretched out some seven or eight miles in length before us, we determined to steer directly for the base of the highest peak, leaving a large slide, by which, as I have since learned, some of out predecessors ascended, on our left. This course would lead us parallel to a dark seam in the forest, which marked the bed of a torrent, and over a slight spur, which extended southward from the main mountain, from whose bare summit we could get an outlook over the country, and climb directly up the peak, which would then be close at hand.”
—Henry David Thoreau, “1846 Ktaadn”, The Maine Woods