Camel’s Hump — about to become famous as part of the setting in Notice
This is one of my favorite mountains. I’ve climbed it a few times — it’s one of several Vermont peaks that is over 4,000 feet (4,083 to be exact, which is high for the east, though they laugh at us in the west) — and the summit offers beautiful views of the Champlain Valley, where I’ve lived all my life. So when I needed a peak in Notice, Camel’s Hump was an obvious choice. Poor Varian gets into quite a situation up there.
The Native American name for Camel’s Hump is the Couching Lion, and in my opinion, it’s a much better name. We certainly do not have camels in Vermont. And no, I didn’t misspell “couching.” Lots of people mistake the word for “crouching” and think that some European who’d been to Africa thought the mountain looked like a lion, crouching down. This is completely wrong.