Eagle

[WalksWithBlackflies]

I'm trying to determine the naming of the routes on the Eagle. There appears to be one wing on the left, a head with crest in the center, and three feathers on the right wing. Are the feathers numbered 1-5 starting on the left and including the left wing and "crest", or are only the right-wing feathers numbered 1-3?

[pete_hickey]

I'm trying to determine the naming of the routes on the Eagle. There appears to be one wing on the left, a head with crest in the center, and three feathers on the right wing. Are the feathers numbered 1-5 starting on the left and including the left wing and "crest", or are only the right-wing feathers numbered 1-3?
You see a different eagle than I do. I see the eagle flying to the left (as you look at it). His head is lower, leftmost, and the wings are up.

You do see the old coke bottle in the bottle slide, right?

[WalksWithBlackflies]

I surely don't see a head lower left. I can make out a head in the lower right... but it looks more like a falcon's head. :D

This is the eagle I see:

http://www.tygielski.org/images/polisheagle.jpg

[pete_hickey]

And the eagle I see looks more like this (but flying in the opposite direction)

http://www.suecoleman.ca/Limited/Im039.htm

I should go back to my pictures from the '60s when they were named. I think that, at that time, you could almost read the word 'coke' on the bottle slide. Things changed a bit since then... some new growth, other stuff fallen off, etc.

Oh... the Ausable Inn (I think that's what the place at the beginning of the road to the garden is called) used to be called, "The Spread Eagle", but I don't know why.

[Neil]

I think I see what WWBF sees:

http://adkhighpeaks.com/neil/outdoor%20pursuits/bottle/IM003358.jpg

I believe most people climb the second feather which is the central and longest one on viewer's right.

[Peakbagr]

There's a good drawing in Trudy Healy's "A Climber's Guide to the Adirondacks" published in '67 and '71.
L to R in Neil's photo are: The Bottle, Question Mark, Eagle, Finger and Tulip.
The QM was always the most exposed of the slides and I understand its grown over. She describes the 2nd feather from the right as leading the highest on the mountain.

[Joe H.]

I have always seen what WWBF has seen, but, Pete, your perspective is very cool, and I can now see that as well.

From my experience the Eagle has changed in the years I have climbed it ('83-present). Back in the '80s we typically finished up the second finger from the right in Neil's picture. The lead almost to the Giant trail junction over to RPR. More recently I have been following the major finger directly above the last steep slab of Roaring Brook (also seen in Neil's picture directly under the Eagle. It leads almost to the trail as it becomes flatter towards the summit.

[pete_hickey]

There's a good drawing in Trudy Healy's "A Climber's Guide to the Adirondacks" published in '67 and '71.
L to R in Neil's photo are: The Bottle, Question Mark, Eagle, Finger and Tulip.
The QM was always the most exposed of the slides and I understand its grown over. She describes the 2nd feather from the right as leading the highest on the mountain.But but but... Is the eagle a portrait or a profile????
And I'm wondering if I go up a feather or the neck/head?

[Prino]

One thing for sure, we all approach from the Eagle's d*ck slide at the bottom there. :D

[Cory D]

But but but... Is the eagle a portrait or a profile????
One thing for sure, we all approach from the Eagle's d*ck slide at the bottom there. :DHey, that's more obvious than the portrait or profile thing!;)

It looks more like a crown to me. Maybe the bottle is a Budweiser bottle?:cool:

[randomscooter]

Looks more like a chicken to me. Sorta like Miss Prissy, the widowed hen who had a crush on Foghorn Leghorn.

You DO see that, right? :rolleyes: :D

[Cory D]

Looks more like a chicken to me. Sorta like Miss Prissy, the widowed hen who had a crush on Foghorn Leghorn.

You DO see that, right? :rolleyes: :D
What kind of wood you burnin' in that stove Tom?

[Neil]

Here's a different view:

500 Kb (http://adkhighpeaks.com/neil/outdoor%20pursuits/USA Photomaps view.jpg)
150 Kb (http://adkhighpeaks.com/neil/outdoor%20pursuits/USA Photomaps view small.jpg)

[pete_hickey]

Maybe the bottle is a Budweiser bottle?:cool:
If you would remember it from 40 years ago, there would be no mistake that it looked just like one of those classic 8(?)oz coke bottles.

I still think it does... the profile of the bottle, not a portrait.

[mudrat]

Don Mellor refers to "fingers" rather than "Feathers", but imagine an eagle diving through the air toward its prey...headfirst. The wind rippled feathers trail behind...in this case 4 or perhaps 5 if you count the one that peters off before getting near the ridge. The main drainage then climbs the head/neck and each route subsequently leads to a different feather...the 2nd being the closest to the ridge. 3rd lets out next to the trail junction to RPR, if memory serves me.

[qam1]

I see the Eagle with it's wings spread out like the Polish Eagle in post #3

But it's head is pointing upwards with it's beak ending just below the summit ridge. Actually it's head (http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/qam1/adkpics/bottle2.htm) doesn't look like an eagle as it has a crest so it looks more like a Pterodactyl's head then an eagle's, but pterodactyls didn't have feathers so that would be silly, so maybe it's woodpeckers head.

But then again, harking back to my 80's childhood, the whole slide looks like a B&W Galaxian flagship

http://files.xboxic.com/xbox-360/galaga/achievements/galboss.jpg

But what do I know, I think the Eastern Slide on Giant looks a bat with a big head

http://members.aol.com/nancywcc/batslide.jpg

[WalksWithBlackflies]

...so maybe it's woodpeckers head.

Yes! I see it... a pileated woodpecker!!! So... is the Eagle's second feather the same as the woodpecker's beak?

[randomscooter]

Hey, let's get ADKechoes73 from the ADKforum over here with some of his mushrooms. Maybe THEN we can see the true meaning of the Eagle. :hippy2:

[Neil]

Hey, let's get ADKechoes73 from the ADKforum over here with some of his mushrooms. Maybe THEN we can see the true meaning of the Eagle. :hippy2:

I only inject heroin twice a week now but my deadbeat friends do it every 4 hours. And I know my stuff is pure because it enables me to commune with the Eagle on Giant.

[mudrat]

WWBF...I don't think you're looking correctly. Pileated woodpecker...that's absurd. It's an ivory billed woodpecker! This is the only remaining one!

[WalksWithBlackflies]

Methinks you are confusing the ivory-billed with the nearly identical metanorthosite-billed woodpecker.

[Neil]

metanorthosite-billed woodpecker.
I bet he has such a hard bill that his friends call him Rocky.

[Prino]

I bet he has such a hard bill that his friends call him Rocky.

No! He has such a Big Bill that he can't afford the Giant Slide of the stock market! :rolleyes: