In a case of life imitating art, a tall hill in Wales has been redesignated a mountain. Hikers using GPS demonstrated that the official measurement of the peak's height of 1,998 feet was in error. It is actually six inches over the 2,000-foot threshold required for official designation as a mountain.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 790813.ece

Around here anything that sticks up a few hundred feet above the surrounding landscape is assumed to be a mountain.

Around here, if it's less than 14000 ft, we call it a foothill.

Very interesting, DL. On Mimicka we have very large mountains, but also lot's of flat land also.

We get excited about ravines around here. The glaciers made the terrain pretty darn flat.

That was my impression of Ohio.

Get's lumpier the farther east you go. Prairie starts just to the west.

Is Mimicka Colorado? It sounds a lot the same.

Some of Arkansas is flat, some is rolling hills, and we have two mountainous regions. They're real mountains. Just not Rocky Mountain high.

The hilly parts are really fun for biking.

I had a chance to visit the very north of Arkansas this summer when I went to visit my aunt's family in Branson, MO. I have to say that what I saw was beautiful. And in spite of the mountains not being "Rocky Mountain high" like Colorado, the roads in the mountains are just as windy as here. Beautiful trees and foliage there.

Nope. But they're a little alike. Mimicka is actually my home Planet, Mark.

Colorado is my home planet... some people think we are just a state, but I tell them that's wrong. Colorado IS a state of mind though.

Ohio is just a flyover state.

I'll have to visit there sometime.



Do you have broccoli yogurt in the local grocery stores, Mark?

We used to, but someone bought it all, and they are all out at the moment.

Ummm... I wonder who that could've possibly been.... I wonder.....

I'm going to a professional conference up that way soon. I can hardly wait!

The Black Hills are mountains in South Dakota well over 2,000 feet, but they
are still called "hills". Go figure...

There is a book recounting the author's and a photographer's adventures in standing atop the highest points in all 50 states. Some of them are spectacular mountains. Others are barely noticeable hills. In the Great Plains region some high points have an impressive-sounding altitude above sea level, until you realize that they are so far inland all the surrounding area as it nearly the same height.

And some states have the misfortune to have a high point that's technically higher than anywhere else but not especially scenic. Arkansas' Mount Magazine has a broad, almost level top. The highest point is somewhere in the middle, too far from the edge to see very much. You get better views from around the edges.

I think of Gunsmoke (the long-lived TV series), in which they talk about the gold miners heading out to the mountains, and they will be back in a couple of days.

Dodge City was NEVER a couple of days from the mountains.

I've only crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. Sadly, I've never had a chance to cross the Arctic. I'd say that is up to our submariner on the board.

"Ohio: Gateway to Indiana"