Posted by John Lambert on April 30, 2002 at 15:29:00 from 24.84.34.133:
In Reply to: Re: 'Summit register'? remember the Appalachians posted by Anne LeVeque on April 30, 2002 at 13:38:19:
"The Park Service had all kinds of museums, shops, and an observation
tower..." I thought we were talking mountains here. I was forgetting
that easterners call those bumps "mountains". We from the west regard
anything east of the Rockies as mere hills. A bump that can be
scaled in one day without the benefit of crampons, an ice axe, tents,
oxygen and Sherpas is hardly worthy of the name. To say nothing of the
museums,shops, etc. The summits of the mountains I'm used to are a
wilderness of rocks and/or snow-covered ice, swept by eternal winds,
with never a sign of humanity. From our neighbhourhood we can see at
least six mountains that are perpetually snow-covered all the year round.