Sugarloaf Mountain left behind when the other once
mighty craggy Everest-sized mountains towered and were
worn away by 14 million years of rain ice seep cracking
rock, weeds, trees getting footholds roots digging
cracking rock and now millions of Washington area
residents and tourists trek to this perch to view the
surrounding countryside (and exurbia) where no
quartzite resisted as valiantly the patient relentless
eons of slow destruction as this 1300 foot "mountain",
all of 800 feet above the land carved by the Potomac
and Monocacy valleys.
