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Subject:Re: Just when you think...
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:54:47 -0600

...If it makes our 2.1WBX's downshift into 3rd gear, then that's MY
definition of a mountain!!!

DM&FS

At 09:04 AM 2/28/2011, Mark L. Hineline wrote:
>Well, hmm, technically the Black Mountains of N. Carolina have a
>couple higher peaks. The White Mountains of NH are quite a bit more
>rugged, as is Katahdin in Maine.
>
>But yes, the Smokies certainly are mountains, real mountains, in all
>senses of the word, and deserve plenty of respect.
>
>Mark
>
>
>
>On Feb 28, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
>>---- Rowan Tipton <uther@DRAGONHOME.ORG> wrote:
>>>My wife and I were in the Synco at the top of a mountain (or what
>>>they call a mountain here in the Smokies)
>>
>>The Smokies are pretty good mountains.  They meet the geological
>>definition (consist of a geosyncline), and they are the tallest and
>>most rugged in the East.  Lots of ranges worldwide have less local
>>relief than the Smokies and are called mountains.  Doesn't have to
>>be Denali to be a mountain.  mcneely