Favorite mountain range?

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Poll question: Favorite mountain range?

Big or small - if not listed, reply with your own

[greendog]

1. The Mission Range in northern Montana.

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2. That is beautiful !!

All those lovely shades of Blue, just beautiful.

[Deja Q]

3. I should be embarrassed over the first thing I thought of...

:bounce: :bounce:

[livetohike]

5. Beautiful! Wow.....

:-)

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6. Is that near Glacier NP?

[greendog]

8. South of Glacier - Flathead Indian Reservation.

[Kali]

4. Sierra Madre and the Little Dragoons

[hobbit709]

7. Asgard Range

I like the name

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9. Neat

where is it?

[hobbit709]

11. Coldest place on Earth.

[Ikonoklast]

27. There is a mountain range inside of Barbara Bush?

Who knew?

:shrug:

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43. yes but it's barren

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12. There was some incredible scenery in "March of the Penguins"

it's a spectacular place, but I'll never go there.

[charlie and algernon]

10. Appalachian

Picture of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia

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13. I've been to Shenandoah National Park

The fall colors were gorgeous.

[graywarrior]

14. White Mountains of NH

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32. Is that where they had the sustained wind speed of 231 mph?

[graywarrior]

47. That is Mt Washington who pals around with Mt Adams & Madison in the photo I posted earlier

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49. It looks so benign in that photo.

What is that road thing or whatever it is going straight up the mountain?

[graywarrior]

50. That leads to the Cog Railroad which carries people up to the summit by train

That is the view from the Bretton Woods side of the mountain.

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51. Ok thanks

[YankeyMCC]

68. Hey there...

I seconded your vote, see my post, further down in the thread.

A special place those Whites! ;)

[LeftyMom]

15. The Sierra Nevada. It's all about mountains named after beer.

:D

[backscatter712]

16. I'm a big fan of Never Summer Ale, myself.

As well as the Never Summer Mountains not too far from my stomping grounds.

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38. I've seen those!

We went on trips to Rocky Mountain National Park in 1968 and 1972, when my grandparents had a summer cabin in Estes Park. My sister retired and moved last year to a house just outside Estes Park. I remember the Never Summer Range from those vacations. I thought it sounded cool and kind of like a forbidden place.

[rug]

17. Adirondacks

[rockymountaindem]

18. The Rockies

'Natch

[skygazer]

19. The Green Mountains of Vermont

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39. Wow, what a picture.

We have brilliant orange hillsides here in California too, but it's fire, not leaves.

[XemaSab]

20. Too hard to pick

I don't think I've ever seen a mountain range I didn't like. :)

[Turbineguy]

21. The Dutch Alps

they actually call the southern part of Zuid Limburg "Little Switzerland":rofl:

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40. There are also places called "the American Alps" and the "Nevada Alps"

[XemaSab]

63. You forgot "The Trinity Alps"

:)

[Xipe Totec]

22. Sierra Madre Oriental nt

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41. what about the Occidental?

[Xipe Totec]

54. Haven't traveled the Occidental

Except, perhaps near Guanajuato.

But I have traveled the Oriental from Coahuila to Puebla.

I'll do it again, someday...

:hi:

[Withywindle]

23. I picked the Appalachians 'cause that's home, but...

...no Carpathians? Like the Appalachians, but with creepy legends about vampires.


What about the Scottish Highlands? Like the Appalachians but with fewer trees and lots more sheep.

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31. Only 10 choices allowed in the poll...

damn this software

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Well, I live in the Adirondacks, love the Blue Ridge, spent time there, but it would have to be the

Caucuses, which I went to when I was in Russia. It was 3 1/2 hours straight up, to get to our destination, no guard rails and warning signs about falling boulders, LOL, and I was terrified, but it was well worth the trip...:D

[fishwax]

25. well, the Rockies are my favorite, but I'll also put in a word for the Big Horns

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42. was that first one taken from a plane?

[fishwax]

52. it's actually from the summitt of Cloud Peak

the highest peak in the range :)

[MorningGlow]

26. Catskills

Went to college there--fond memories. Adirondacks also--great hiking.

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44. Are all those resorts still there, where they put on shows?

[MorningGlow]

53. I don't know, actually

The Catskills cover a really big area; IIRC, the resorts were more downstate (an easier drive from NYC where their clientele came from) and my school was more in the center of the state.

[Ptah]

28. Rockies for me

http://www.nps.gov/glac/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

[Ikonoklast]

29. Superstition Mountains

Home of the 'Lost Dutchman' mine.

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30. Did anyone ever find the treasure?

I remember hearing about that when I lived in Phoenix from 1977 to 1980. It seems like after all this time, someone must have found the treasure. It's not all that big of a mountain, compared to some mountain ranges. That stuff must be buried very, very well for nobody to have found it after all these years.

[auntAgonist]

33. Canadian Rocky Mountains. n/t

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45. Someday I want to go to Peyto Lake

[zanne]

74. I would love, love, love to see the Canadian Rockies!

I'm told they're really spectacular.

[Taverner]

34. For what? Skiing? Hiking? Wildlife Viewing?

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46. Whatever it is you do

[stuntcat]

35. Appalachians/Blue Ridge!

To me it's the most beautiful, green, perfect place on the whole Earth :loveya: :loveya:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

36. Appalachians..........

especially the part in WV!

They are some of the oldest mountains in the world (300 million years old), I think the Ural Mountains are second

[stuntcat]

55. (300,000,000)

with EIGHT zeros x(
I've been writing hate mail every day to everyone who blows the tops off those mountains for a few days of energy.
I've seen people making the argument online that the shopping centers and golf courses that could take the place of the old blow-off tops are actually a great thing for People.
It's making me so sick, it's a worse violation than anything else I can think of.. though I'm sure I'll see even worse before long.

Sorry to get Heavy, I feel like those hills are my only real home and I'm scared.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

70. I know how you feel........

Don Blankenship can kiss my ass!

Love your username, BTW.

[stuntcat]

71. hey ty!

:D

and I hadn't even heard of Blankenshit, I've just been responding to the petitions and stuff I'm getting in my email all the time. I'm in Northern VA so I haven't paid attention the political stuff over there. I just started looking him up though :puke: :puke: I'm ashamed to share his species.

[MilesColtrane]

37. The Southern Alps of New Zealand

AKA The Misty Mountains of Middle Earth thanks to Peter Jackson.

Some of the scenes in LOTR rival the "Sound of Music" Alps shots, even if they may have been CGI enhanced.

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48. Like this?

[MilesColtrane]

57. Beautiful

Now if only they could get rid of those Balrogs living under them.

[pokerfan]

56. Grand Tetons

[MilesColtrane]

58. Why do those two words always make me think of Gina Lollobrigida?

[pokerfan]

60. That is odd

since Grand Teton is French for "large teat."

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61. We're going there on September 25th

I can't wait - I've never been to either Grand Teton or Yellowstone National Parks yet.

[bikebloke]

59. The Remarkables

On the South Island of New Zealand. Mostly because of the name.

[drexel dave]

62. Red River Gorge Kentucky

is the place I long to be

http://www.wadih-ghsoubi.com/Nature/2/original/Foggy%20Morn,%20Red%20River%20Gorge,%20Daniel%20Boone%20National%20Forest,%20K.jpg

[Richard Steele]

64. I'm a toothless hillbilly from Polecat Hollow. I voted "Appalachians". They're the best. nm

[GoddessOfGuinness]

65. Appalachians...Allegheny

Where you find places like Dolly Sods:




And Seneca Rocks:

[Rhythm]

66. That's right down the road from Oktoberain and i...

I love living in this part of the country...

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

69. It is breathtaking...

Do you know the little town of Lost River? There's a beautiful state park there, a general store with fantastic sandwiches and gifts, and a craft barn, among other things. :hi:

[YankeyMCC]

67. Appalachians particularly the Whites in NH

these are old mountains (I'll even accept calling them hills though some peaks are definitely high and steep enough to deserve the term mountain) that humans have lived in and around for millenia. They are "human" sized, they offer a sublime, intricate and wonderful (I literally mean full of wonder here, always a new thing to find to see, a new or different juxtaposition of life and geology)

And if you've seen any of my pictures here you'll have seen just a glimpse of what I mean. Brad Washburn's photos capture it well too, find those. Not to mention the American painters of the 19th century who were inspired by the whites and helped create the American conservation movement with their stunning paintings of the whites.

And where else do you have peaks and trails named after scientists, entomologists, biologists (who study wildflowers) etc...

And then there's the unique alpine zone in the Presidentials...a truly special place.

All the ranges listed are special and have their beauty and majesty but Appalachians and in particular the Whites are special in a unique yet human scale.

on edit: Here's a site of a phonographer/hiker I know who does a good job capturing some of the beauty and specialness of the Whites

http://ghostflowers.com/white_mtns4000/4000.html

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72. uhmmmm

Chimney Rock


Table Rock


Blowing Rock


Grandfather Mountain

[muriel_volestrangler]

73. Alps

http://gallery.photo.net.nyud.net:8080/photo/1399286-lg.jpg

(I'm the one in the middle, I think)

Link to more photos by my friend: http://photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=327486

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76. Yikes!

You couldn't get me within a mile of any crevasse.

[muriel_volestrangler]

77. Heh - notice we were on ropes

and it was a case of crossing one at a time.

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78. Thanks... but that's still not enough to convince me to do it...

[michreject]

75. That would be the Appalachians

:)

[WinkyDink]

79. The Matterhorn rules.

[crimsonblue]

80. Sunflower