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The Old Man of the Mountain, a celebrated rock profile viewed by travelers from this spot for nearly 200 years, collapsed due to natural forces sometime in the night on May 3, 2003. Though the fabled stone face is gone, an interactive sculpture of seven large rods now offers a new way to view its profile high on the cliff by standing on a pink granite stone engraved with the number closest to one's height, sighting along a Profiler rod with one eye closed, and aligning the bumps on the rod. After the fall in 2003, the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund created Profiler Plaza in partnership with the NH Division of Parks and Recreation, and it was dedicated in 2011 with all costs underwritten by private contributions.
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