On the walk to Black Mountain- a rare area because it is the only area which has granite. That's common in NH but not here. You can see places where the glacier plucked out pieces of the granite and left little crescents with the open side of the crescent where the gouge began. Because of all these differences, it grows laurel, similar to what grows in NH with the granite bedrock. The laurel were in bloom, just a little past peak. Oh, the laurel do smell.

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