What mountain is this?

[Seatbelt]

Friends were driving up I-81 just south of Staunton and took this pic. Just curious. 24756

[atmilkman]

Friends were driving up I-81 just south of Staunton and took this pic. Just curious. 24756

Oh that, that's Mt. Nipple.

[MDSection12]

I don't think that's visible from 81... I drive through there several times a year and I don't recall ever seeing it. I'd remember that too, very cool.

[Seatbelt]

Oh that, that's Mt. Nipple. Surely you Jest!

[Seatbelt]

I don't think that's visible from 81... I drive through there several times a year and I don't recall ever seeing it. I'd remember that too, very cool.

Knowing them, they probly took a side road somewhere......

[johnnybgood]

Friends were driving up I-81 just south of Staunton and took this pic. Just curious. 24756

Looks like Sharp Top

[Chummin' for Bear]

That is Pilot Mountain which is close to Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Mt. Airy was home to Andy Griffith from the Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry. In the show they referred to it as Mount Pilot instead of Pilot Mountain.

[bfayer]

That is Pilot Mountain which is close to Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Mt. Airy was home to Andy Griffith from the Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry. In the show they referred to it as Mount Pilot instead of Pilot Mountain.

Well that is south of Staunton. about 200 miles south :eek:

[hikerboy57]

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/7383.
pilot mtn

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/moravian-diary/1895

[Spit Walker]

If that's not Pilot Mtn in NC then Pilot Has a twin somewhere

[Spit Walker]

never heard of this Staunton though

[johnnybgood]

Looks like Sharp Top

This is Sharp Top , near Peaks of Otter , south of Staunton .

[Hoofit]

Mt. Teeton isn't it?

[hikerboy57]

This is Sharp Top , near Peaks of Otter , south of Staunton .
no i dont think so. heres a pic of sharp top
http://www.backpacker.com/media/originals/BlueRidgeParkwayVASharpTopMountain84771.jpeg

[MDSection12]

That is not ​Sharp Top.

[johnnybgood]

That is not ​Sharp Top. Okay ...I finally dug up a picture of Sharp Top:rolleyes:.
http://www.summitpost.org/sharp-top-mountain/153370

[HikerMom58]

no i dont think so. heres a pic of sharp top
http://www.backpacker.com/media/originals/BlueRidgeParkwayVASharpTopMountain84771.jpeg

This is Sharp Top.... the parked cars are in the parking lot for the trail to the top. :)

[10-K]

Pilot Mt. 100%

[Pedaling Fool]

I see nipples;)

[rocketsocks]

apparently it's not a nipple at all, it's a "little head"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadnock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadnock)

[hikerboy57]

Pilot Mt. 100%
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/moravian-diary/1895

[Seatbelt]

thanks to all for your help!

[rocketsocks]

unless it's Dome shaped and gniess...then it's a BornHardt

[johnnybgood]

So pilot mountain can be seen from what looks to be a side window heading due south ?

[hikerboy57]

So pilot mountain can be seen from what looks to be a side window heading due south ?
he said heading up I-81 south of staunton

[johnnybgood]

he said heading up I-81 south of staunton so here's where I get confused...he said he was traveling up(north 81) just south...

of Staunton...Virginia I assume. So how do you see Pilot Mountain in North Carolina ? After enlarging the photo, it most definitely is Pilot Mtn.

[hikerboy57]

so here's where I get confused...he said he was traveling up(north 81) just south...

of Staunton...Virginia I assume. So how do you see Pilot Mountain in North Carolina ? After enlarging the photo, it most definitely is Pilot Mtn.
well seeing that he wasnt the one who took the picture, its likely his friends bearings are completely off. ive got plenty of pics in my gallery and at home, that i have no clue where they were taken.

[gpburdelljr]

I just looked at 3D topo on Delorme and the picture could have been taken from I77, which connects to I81.

[Deer Hunter]

I just looked at 3D topo on Delorme and the picture could have been taken from I77, which connects to I81.


You can see it as you decend Fancy Gap heading down into North Carolina/ Ascend Fancy Gap just after you enter Virginia on I-77.

[Tuckahoe]

Friends were driving up I-81 just south of Staunton and took this pic. Just curious. 24756


Oh that, that's Mt. Nipple.


That is Pilot Mountain which is close to Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Mt. Airy was home to Andy Griffith from the Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry. In the show they referred to it as Mount Pilot instead of Pilot Mountain.

No no no... that is Devils Tower. Careful of the enounters there.

[rocketsocks]

No no no... that is Devils Tower. Careful of the enounters there.That was my first thought too...Close! ;)

now I gotta take the trash, mud and bushes out of the bedroom.

[Seatbelt]

well seeing that he wasnt the one who took the picture, its likely his friends bearings are completely off. ive got plenty of pics in my gallery and at home, that i have no clue where they were taken.
I think this is right--they were going different side treks on their vacation--I thought they said it was just south of Staunton--turns out it was quite a ways south. Seatbelt

[chathamrabbit]

I agree with 10-K, that is Pilot Mountain, just down the road from Mt. Airy, NC...home of Andy Griffith.

[DugK]

I agree with 10-K, that is Pilot Mountain, just down the road from Mt. Airy, NC...home of Andy Griffith.

I see it daily, that is Pilot Mtn...locally known as Pilot Knob
I think I could duplicate that picture.

[Feral Bill]

So what is a volcano, even an extinct one, doing in North Carolina?

[Alleghanian Orogeny]

Despite looking a lot like one, Pilot Mountain, NC is not volcanic in origin. The distinctive "cap" is an erosional remnant of hard, flat-lying Cambrian quartz sandstone, metamorphosed to quartzite. As it turns out, NC's old volcanoes are concentrated in a belt running NE-SW through the center of the state, from just east of Charlotte northeast through Asheboro and entering Virginia north of Durham. The Uwharrie Mountains are the core of this former volcanic island arc, which formed some 300 million years ago and was much like the Aleutians and the Marianas of today's tectonic setting. Along the AT, Mount Rogers, VA is where volcanic rocks, late Precambrian to Cambrian in age, outcrop prominently on Mount Rogers, Whitetop Mountain, and along much of the AT from the Creeper Trail segments on up and across Mount Rogers. AO (Appalachian State geology--also from the Precambrian)

[Damn Yankee]

I live in Staunton and have never seen this mountain before.

[bobgessner57]

Agree on Pilot Mountain. It allegedly got its name because early settlers used the distinctive shape as a navigational way point. Nice place to visit, its a state park.

[DugK]

I can even duplicate the photo. It was taken with a half mile of my house. I thought I recognized the fence.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/07/y5aje7eg.jpg

[Pedaling Fool]

I can even duplicate the photo. It was taken with a half mile of my house. I thought I recognized the fence.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/07/y5aje7eg.jpg

Booby, Booby :clap:jump:banana:jump:clap

[turtle fast]

Talk about solving the mystery....right down to the fence!!!!

[Odd Man Out]

Oh that, that's Mt. Nipple.

Sorry, that's been taken. The Tetons in WY were named by some very lonely French Voyageurs.

[Tennessee Viking]

The original picture is of Pilot Mountain near Mt Airy NC. I have driven by it and hiked it a many of times.

[10-K]

Talk about solving the mystery....right down to the fence!!!!

Dude... this is Whiteblaze. If we don't know we'll make something up and then disagree about it until Alligator locks the thread... :)

[rafe]

Sorry, that's been taken. The Tetons in WY were named by some very lonely French Voyageurs.

And as Robin Williams once remarked, it's a good thing those same lonely Frenchmen didn't get to name the Grand Canyon. :)

[Odd Man Out]

And as Robin Williams once remarked, it's a good thing those same lonely Frenchmen didn't get to name the Grand Canyon. :)

too funny :)