---- Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET> wrote:
> ...If it makes our 2.1WBX's downshift into 3rd gear, then that's MY
> definition of a mountain!!!

Well then, there are far more mountains than the maps show.

>
> 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

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David McNeely