Mount Skylight

Mount Skylight
Mount Skylight as seen from the summit of Mount Marcy.
Highest point
Elevation	4,925 ft (1,501 m) ^[1]
Prominence	578 ft (176 m) ^[1]
Parent peak	Mount Marcy^[1]
Listing	Adirondack High Peaks
Coordinates	44°05′58″N 73°55′51″W / 44.09944°N 73.93083°W / 44.09944; -73.93083Coordinates: 44°05′58″N 73°55′51″W / 44.09944°N 73.93083°W / 44.09944; -73.93083 ^[2]
Geography
Mount Skylight Keene, New York, U.S.
Parent range	Adirondacks
Topo map	USGS Mount Marcy
Climbing
First ascent	Verplanck Colvin, Orson Schofield Phelps and unknown party, 1873 (first recorded)
Easiest route	Hike

Mount Skylight is a mountain in the Great Range of the Adirondack High Peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. It gets its name from its open, bare and relatively flat summit, unusual in the Adirondack High Peaks.

A remote summit by any approach, it is nonetheless a favorite of hikers. It is famously distinguished by two large cairns that have grown on either end of the summit over the years, as 46er lore has it that carrying a rock up and placing it on them will ensure good weather.

A single trail goes up to the mountain's summit from the Four Corners junction between Skylight and Mount Marcy, its northern neighbor; as the name suggests, however, there are three ways to get there. Most commonly, hikers come up from the west, via the Feldspar Brook Trail from the campsites at the Flowed Lands and climb the peak in conjunction with a visit to Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds, often considered as the source of the Hudson River, and a climb up neighboring, trail-less Gray Peak. The trailhead can also be reached by descending from Marcy to the north, or via Panther Gorge and Elk Lake to the southeast, all very lengthy trips that are usually done via an overnight backpack.

Gallery

Mt. Skylight seen from Mt. Marcy

Notes

1 2 3 "Mount Skylight". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
↑ "Mount Skylight". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2014-12-31.

External links

The High Peaks of New York's Adirondack Mountains

Northern Adirondacks	Esther Whiteface

Eastern Adirondacks	Giant Rocky Peak

Colvin Range	Blake Colvin Dial Nippletop

Dix Range	Dix Grace Peak South Dix Hough Macomb

Northern High Peaks	Big Slide Cascade Phelps Porter Table Top

Marcy Group	Allen Cliff Colden Gray Haystack Marcy Redfield Skylight

Other Great Range	Armstrong Basin Gothics Saddleback Sawteeth Lower Wolfjaw Upper Wolfjaw

MacIntyre Mountains	Algonquin Iroquois Marshall Wright

Santanoni Mountains	Couchsachraga Panther Santanoni

Seward Mountains	Donaldson Emmons Seward Seymour

Street Range	(MacNaughton) Nye Street

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