Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012
Today we visited Stone Mountain, a large granite monolith standing 825 feet above the park's floor. This one piece solid rock is more than 5 miles in circumference at over 1685' elevation. On its north face is a carving of three Confederate Leaders of the Civil War; Jefferson Davis, Confederate President, General Robert E Lee and General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
We took a cable car ride to the top of the mountain, not only to see what it looked like but also to get a closer look at the Confederate statues! It was still hard to get a visual perspective of the sheer size do the carving but we were told that a person could actually stand inside Lee's ear or nostril! Apparently the carved area surface measures 3 Acres! It is recessed 42 feet and stands 90' high and 190' in length! It was hard to get a handle on that because one would need to get much closer to it.
The view at the top was good but the surrounding area was cloudy and hazy. We could barely see the City of Atlanta skyscrapers! But it was fun up there! That was the largest rock I've ever stood upon!
One very "cool" thing was the park management has brought in a snow making machine to create a huge snow pile; also, to create sled runs for the kids!
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