Re: Mountains in Dragon Pass

From: Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:43:59 -0700 (PDT)


Donald Oddy sez:
> It turns out that Greg and Jeff have been working to the Californian
> definition of a mountain which is a peak over 5,000 feet.

In the ever-glorious once-and-future country of Texas, I think our definition of a mountain includes anything that a 10-story building could hide behind. That's not to say that a mountain could be as small as 100 feet. Whether something is a mountain appears to depend on its slope. For example, in Austin, Mount Bonnell is a mountain, but that's really only because the Colorado river cuts a steep cliff on one side. There are hundreds of equally large "hills" all around it. It might also have something to do with the fact that our only honest-to-goodness mountain range in Texas is the Davis Mountains, which are so barren that only enthusiasts would go there: think Condor Crags, but more rounded. Unable to find any fools to live there, we put an astronomy station on top of one of them and turned the rest into a state park.

So every average hummock in Dragon Pass looks like a mountain to me.

Chris Lemens

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