Favorite mountain?

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What is your favorite mountain, either to go up or simply to look at?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. wow. so many from which to choose ...and then there are the

mountain ranges that make up a view of their own. gosh. can.not.choose. really.

[rug]

2. Popocatépetl

It's still active.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. is that your very favorite?

I can't choose. Really, I have so many favorites. Wait a minute. I have decided. Just a sweet little hill, in the scheme of things....

my all time favorite

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Old Rag Mountain in Virginia

It's not Everest by any stretch of the imagination, but I did enjoy climbing it several times as a kid.

Here in Florida, we're not really a mountainous region, although I like to think of the famous cumulonimbus thunderhead clouds that rise up on summer afternoons as "mountains" of their own sort:

[arcadian]

48. Good choice

It's up there in the top 3 for me

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Mount Rainier!

Just to look at...

It's gorgeous.

If you ever get the chance, stay in the Paradise Inn; it's on the slopes just below the peak. What an experience!

[maxsolomon]

17. Seconded. Mt. Rainier (Tahoma) is the tallest base-to-top mountain in the lower 48

There was a Japanese-American from Seattle I read about who came up every weekend with his wife - he called it "The Holy Mountain".

I can see it from my living room and I completely agree with his assessment.

[Iggo]

18. Whoa, Mother!

We got a couple mountains here in SoCal, but nothing like that!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. How lucky that you have such a view!

Is that picture what you see?

I've seen photos of it from Seattle on a clear day, and it just makes me gasp.

I haven't seen it in decades, and I'd love to get back up there for some digital pictures...

[maxsolomon]

23. well, i don't have a telescopic lens in my brain, but basically

everyone in seattle has that view, at least from parks. tacoma has a closer view. often it will be lit up orange like this when the sun is still below the horizon for everything else.

BTW, it is 14,410' tall, and the lowest base is at the Carbon River @ 1880' above sea level. 12,530' top to bottom.

[foxfeet]

20. Another vote for Rainier.

I can see just the very top from my deck.

[pokerfan]

40. +1

Climbed it a few times. Nothing too technical but at least not the standard Camp Muir route.

[dana_b]

50. love it - absolutely gorgeous!

thanks for the recommendation for the inn - I'd love to stay on the mountain!

[Wapsie B]

6. Inside myself.

[BarbaRosa]

7. Felix Pappalardi

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29. But have you climbed it?

[BarbaRosa]

46. nope...

just watched and listened to the rumble..

[TZ]

8. Pike's Peak

There were some pretty mountains in Arizona but I LOVE the Colorado Rockies...

[Brickbat]

9. I have several, for different reasons.

The range at Donbai (including Elbrus), the Sleeping Indian near Estes Park, and some local hills that are around 300 feet.

I also have some affection for the roots of the mountains, now gone, which provide Mr. Brickbat with work.

[jotsy]

10. Mt Hood is home for me.

This photo essay runs a little more than 4 minutes, and back dropped by mushy gushy kind of song. I expect you'll get the bulk of the good stuff up front. Don't know how to post a still shot without buying something it seems and I'm saving all my change for a donation to try for one of them nifty keno prizes!

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cojm_20gR3c&feature=related>

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30. I've been to it

Skied at Mt. Hood Meadows once when it was 12 degrees, and I've been to Timberline Lodge, and when I lived in Portland, Mt. Hood was a frequent sight... really nice to have there.

[Duer 157099]

11. Not really a mountain, but Half Dome

If you insist on a real mountain, then Everest.

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31. I don't blame you

It's striking from any direction

[TZ]

12. Not my favorite technically but I like it because it does look like its name..

Camelback Mountain, Phoenix AZ:

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33. I lived near that for 3 years.

I went to DeVry when it was located at 24th and Camelback and lived just a couple of blocks east. Cambelback Mountain was a regular part of my day. (Squaw Peak as well, which I actually hiked up.)

[Kali]

38. grew up with it in view

[Arugula Latte]

13. I've got to go with two -- the mountain I grew up with and the mountain I look at now.

Mountain I grew up next to:
Mt. Diablo, elev. 4,000 ft. (San Francisco East Bay Area):


Mountain I see now:
Mount Hood (view from Portland). Elev. 11,250 ft.

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34. I lived in Portland 3 years

and I always enjoyed the view of Mt. Hood. Went skiing at Mt. Hood Meadows one time, when it was 12 degrees. Visited Timberline Lodge once, but never tried the summer skiing there. Pretty mountain.

[MrScorpio]

14. Fuji

Biggest thing I've ever seen in my life

[bikebloke]

15. The Remarkables

Near Queenstown, New Zealand. Probably because of the name.

[CBR]

16. East River Mountain... it overlooks my hometown in WV.

[foxfeet]

21. I love that shot of the fog cascade.

Isn't that Bluefield?

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Diamondhead or Mt. Shasta.

[CBR]

27. Yup Bluefield!!! My hometown... everyone I know has a picture of

that shot framed hanging on their wall.

[Arugula Latte]

45. That fog shot looks like a giant tsunami about to wipe out the town

Amazing.

[Forkboy]

24. Olympus Mons

[Bucky]

42. DUDE!! Is that a photo or a painting?

It's awesome, whatever it is. But if Mars really has clouds like that, I'm totally moving there when I grow up.

[Forkboy]

44. I honestly don't know for sure, but I think it's a photo.

We need Call Me Wesley to judge this! :)

Mars has always been where I want to go, ever since I read The Martian Chronicles as a little kid. It totally fascinates me to no end.

[geardaddy]

25. Not one mountain, but the range

Yellow Mountains (Huang Shan) in China.



or Snowdonia in Wales

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35. It's beautiful, but

no way in hell would I ever go up that trail, even for $1 million.

[geardaddy]

41. I've been up that trail.

It's not as crazy as it looks in the photo. Most moutains in China acutally have very good paths up them with stairs and everything.

[guitar man]

26. Sugar Mountain

:P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXeN_nWgN0&feature=related

[GoCubsGo]

28. Pike's Peak

I used to be able to see it from my bedroom window when I lived in Colorado. I'm sorry I ever left that place.

[mokawanis]

32. Makalu

Never been there but I love photos of it.

[MajorChode]

36. The Grand Tetons

So two mountains, really. If I had to pick one, it would be difficult, but when it comes to tetons I generally have a slight preference to the one on the right.

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Denali, of course

But I would never climb it. We just lost another climber up there last week.

[donheld]

39. Mt Sneffels

[Bennyboy]

43. Shasta....Big Mojo there....

Really feels unreal, the vibes from the mountain. And the area itself with the rivers and waterfalls is just my favorite. From the top of Shasta you can see Ranier, Lassen and all that too....

[Brother Buzz]

47. Mount Tamalpais

[arcadian]

49. Mauna Loa

[GreenPartyVoter]

51. Katahdin It was the view from the Girl Scout camp I used to go to. (pic inside)

[Xithras]

52. Cathedral Peak, Yosemite. Seen by relatively few people.

Beautiful, but virtually unknown. It can only be briefly and partially glimpsed from the road, and it's located in a part of the park that gets little dayhiker traffic. The only people who really get to see it are those hiking the John Muir Trail in or out of the southern Tuolumne Meadows trailhead.

[ChangoLoa]

55. Amazing. nt

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56. We drove past it last year

We drove Tioga Road last June, and I remember catching a glimpse of it, and a waterfall near it. I assumed the road would go closer to it, but as you said, we never got closer to it and got no other views of it. After doing research I later figured out the waterfall I saw was coming from Lower Cathedral Lake. There is a trail up to the fall from Tioga Road, so the next time I am there maybe I'll stop and hike up that trail. Or maybe take a hike around the area of the peak. I'm not into climbing, but I'd like to see the peak better so a hike in the area would be enough for me. Interestingly, the full-color guidebook that the park hands out as you enter the park had a photo of Cathedral Peak for its cover photo last year.

[ChangoLoa]

53. The Nun and the Kun in Zanskar.

:wow:

[ChangoLoa]

54. And Mount Kailash

Here's the Kun

[pokerfan]

57. Mount Robson is absolutely stunning

The hike in through The Valley of a Thousand Falls is not so bad either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKfchL-rplI

[Dr Morbius]

58. I'm with Harry McClintock: Big Rock Candy Mountain

One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I'm not turning
I'm headin for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains
So come with me we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain there's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain't no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
I'm a goin to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain

I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountain

[SoxFan]

59. Space

[TommyO]

60. Big Thunder, followed closely by Space!

If you're talking geological formations, it would have to be Mount Rainier, just because it's so picturesque