I can google. But wanted to guess. As a kid my father told me to reply to a pen pal add put out by students down there. I remember they mentioned the Catskills mountains, so I remember that 35 years ago.
the anirondacks because my father Guided fellows from there, and one old fellow became good friends with my father. An old trapper near remsen. Eventually he passed away maybe ten years ago or less and I carried some of his ashes in the mountains home and poured them by an old camp. He always talked of those mountains since I can remember in the early 80s.
and the shawagunk mountains came to mind because my favorite book, “ the lure of the labrador wild” began from the idea of a man camping with his friend in the shawagunk mountains, about an exploration trip he wanted to take to uncharted labrador in 1903.
So I said those three. Would it be the appalachians? I’m not googling it. I’ll let you fellows tell me.