The marshy southern part of Lake Champlain is not visible in this picture due to the Bark Mountain, Sugar Loaf, and other mountains in the foreground, but beyond that is the relatively flat lands of the Lake Champlain Valley around West Haven, VT.

This is on Elephant Mountain.

Looking at a cross section of the lake, towards Deer Leep on Fifth Mountain.

With Vermont and Lake Champlain just beyond it.

There are no views to the south of Black Mountain as the Firetower is currently closed with radio equipment on top of it. Yet, the views to the North are northing short of spectacular, looking all the way to Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance, with Lake Champlain just beyond it.

I decided not to take the much steeper foot trail down the mountain with my snowshoes, as the snow was rather deep, and not well packed down. I also did not know how steep the trail was, so I decided to go back down the mountain the way I first came up it.