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Hello! My name is Andrew, and it's my dream to live someday on the top of this mountain in a log lodge of my own design. The mountain is called Roman Nose Mountain, and I own twenty five acres on its very top. This site is about how I plan to get there, and anything that happens between now and then that I feel compelled to include.

Calling Roman Nose a mountain is a bit of stretch. It's really one of many of a certain type of geological formation in the area known as an Allegheny Plateau. This particular one rises 3,007 feet above sea level, which as near as I can tell makes it the fifth-highest spot in the state of Maryland, which is in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States of America.

My piece of the mountain straddles the northeast ridge at almost the highest point. The mountain itself - as do the neighboring mountains for hundreds of miles all around - runs roughly northeast to southwest, parallel with the Allegheny Mountains that make up the Eastern Continental Divide.

The state's largest freshwater lake - Deep Creek Lake - is about five miles away by the shortest route to either the north or the east. It's a man-made lake created by the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the westernmost tip of the lake. The dam was decommissioned long ago, but they still use the sluices to control the water level, or to make good whitewater for the paddlers on the Youghigeny River below.

You can't see the lake from the mountain, but I won't miss a water's edge view. It's a nice area, and still fairly rural, but lots of folks come to play on the lake. I certainly can't blame anyone for wanting to be there, but it can get pretty noisy by the water when the weather is fine and the days are long.

I love the mountain. When I visit, I stand in the middle of it, and all I can hear is the wind in the trees, and all I can see are the neighboring ridges fading from green to blue then to gray in their march off toward the horizon. I could almost believe I am the only soul for miles and miles. Maybe sometimes I really am.

It's beautiful, up there on the mountain - here, I'll show you ...