Steve Jung
Explorer
I'm in New Jersey where the highest point is about 1000 ft. (305 m) above sea level. Then again I've been to the Rockies and the Alps.
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Ah, Table Mountain (Cape Town, South Africa). There's nothing like staring at Table Mountain as the mists roll over the edge and plummet down the steep cliffs. I've climbed it loads of times, every time via a different route - I think there are about three dozen different ways to the top, the easiest being the cable car.
Back where I grew up along the south coast of South Africa, I used to climb the mountain at least once a month. Only about 3500 ft, but it was great fun. I love mountains, and have hiked up more than my fair share all across South Africa.
Now I'm living in flat England and I miss my mountains! :\
Pinotage
Back where I grew up along the south coast of South Africa, I used to climb the mountain at least once a month. Only about 3500 ft, but it was great fun. I love mountains, and have hiked up more than my fair share all across South Africa.
Now I'm living in flat England and I miss my mountains! :\
Pinotage
IronWolf
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Most notable is Long's Peak in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Started the hike at 2am-ish to beat the early afternoon thunderstorms. Made it back down by 2pm the same afternoon. 8 miles one way to the top. 14,255 feet makes it the tallest peak in the Rocky Mountain National Park I believe.
Desdichado
Hero
I occasionally think that too (although with each passing year and each added pound it becomes more and more unlikelyKrieg said:Occasionally I think that someday I would like to work up to the point where I could try Everest...and then I see the number of folks who die on that mountain each year and quickly regain my senses.
) and then I tell myself that doing a couple of fourteeners in Colorado should be good enough.
The Shaman
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The Needles in the Black Hills of South Dakota...the Sierra Nevada of California...the White Mountains of New Hampshire...the Tetons and Wind River Mountains of Wyoming...eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains...the Rockies in New Mexico and Colorado...the Austrian Alps...Washington's Cascades...the Colorado Plateau in Utah and Arizona...
..."Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." - John Muir
..."Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." - John Muir
Blue_Kryptonite
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I live in Rochester, NY, and spent most of my life here. Rocks should not be in the sky, its not natural. 
That said, whichever mountain opresses the skyline at the Colorado Springs military base broke me. About 200 ft up, climbing with my dad, I fell. I was on a safety rope, and he caught me (big strong SpecFor Marine), but I twisted and broke my left ankle and knee, cracked my left hip, and dislocated my left shoulder. I was eight years old, the summer of the same year I began playing D&D.
I now know that evil rocks in the sky are not to be approached.
That said, whichever mountain opresses the skyline at the Colorado Springs military base broke me. About 200 ft up, climbing with my dad, I fell. I was on a safety rope, and he caught me (big strong SpecFor Marine), but I twisted and broke my left ankle and knee, cracked my left hip, and dislocated my left shoulder. I was eight years old, the summer of the same year I began playing D&D.
I now know that evil rocks in the sky are not to be approached.
Nearest mountain to me is Little Mountain (SC), which reminds me of the movie the Englishman that went a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, it is not even close, it is more a dimple, but people are proud of that dimple. 
Hmmmmm, don't think it really applies as a mountain, but being from south-eastern Texas, we don't come across them too often.
Went to a 26 hour paintball game in Pennsylvania. The field, EMR (famous in paintball circles) has what I was told was a mountain. When I got there it looked like a hill. When I climbed the backside of it with full gear in the middle of a paintball game, with paint flying, it was a friggin MOUNTAIN!!!!! A new battlecry from the Texan contingent was heard that day, and is still repeated by those that made the trek... UP SUX!!!
Scott "Boss" Roberts
Captain - Team FUBAR Scenario Paintball Team
Went to a 26 hour paintball game in Pennsylvania. The field, EMR (famous in paintball circles) has what I was told was a mountain. When I got there it looked like a hill. When I climbed the backside of it with full gear in the middle of a paintball game, with paint flying, it was a friggin MOUNTAIN!!!!! A new battlecry from the Texan contingent was heard that day, and is still repeated by those that made the trek... UP SUX!!!
Scott "Boss" Roberts
Captain - Team FUBAR Scenario Paintball Team
Cthulhu's Librarian
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The Shawangunk Ridge in the Hudson Valley of New York are my mountains. I grew up in the foothills, spent ever summer hiking and climbing them, swam in the lakes on them, worked at Minnewaska State Park for a summer, and try to go hiking in the mountains every time I visit NY. Want to see what, as far as I'm concerned, are the most beautiful mountains in the world?
http://gstevejordan.com/portfolio.html
I own several of these photographs, the photographer captures the Gunks like no one else I've ever seen.
Damn, now I'm getting homesick...
http://gstevejordan.com/portfolio.html
I own several of these photographs, the photographer captures the Gunks like no one else I've ever seen.
Damn, now I'm getting homesick...
