tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post3699751660807055022..comments2022-11-19T02:21:40.864-09:00Comments on The Latter-day Snark: Does size matter?David Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12881388186547426677noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-79441587892496385672013-01-16T17:05:36.839-09:002013-01-16T17:05:36.839-09:00Love this post and happened on your blog by accide...Love this post and happened on your blog by accident. My kids were raised in a canyon with the tall Pacific Range all around our ranch. We live between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles and love it... But the transplanted Utah people cannot quit harping about no pine trees! They say the mountains are bare but don't realize those trees are huge Oak Trees and the Pines are on the North facing side. Too much to try and tell them! I usually just say, "Got beach?" My chilren are spread-out and some are flat-landers--they love the wonderful big sky. There is beauty all around...except the road from California to the Arizona border. I think an atomic bomb went off in Desert Center and Quartsite. lol I guess I'm one complainer, too This is a great post and I can really relate to it.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10615324607341955325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-18825849559471732992012-11-28T16:46:50.289-09:002012-11-28T16:46:50.289-09:00I was born in the east--Virginia. Spent much of my...I was born in the east--Virginia. Spent much of my early childhood in Pennsylvania and New York. When I moved to Utah, I was terrified of those craggy disasters towering right behind my house. My dad, being a geologist, just had to tell me all about the seismic fault we were living atop (literally ON TOP). I lived in fear for years that the mountains were going to crumble and crush us in an earthquake. I admit, I've been one of the "Blue Ridge Foothills" smart alecs, but I felt entitled, since I was born in the east and have always considered it my home. Now that I'm back in the east, I still joke about it, but I wouldn't trade the beautiful hills of the east for anything. The green, the fall colors, the LIFE of it.<br /><br />I am super-enjoying your blog! I'll try not to hog up all your comments sections!<br /><br />KrisMumbleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06018218539392699050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-70083371687268161362012-11-05T12:16:37.890-09:002012-11-05T12:16:37.890-09:00Mommie and Daddy just actually applauded when I re...Mommie and Daddy just actually applauded when I read them this post. Mommie give you a gold star. She said this is also her pet peeve. Daddy said our mountains are so old and so tall that they had to lay down on their sides and rest for a while. Many of our veins and strata are vertical instead of horizontal because they have literally fallen over. And they are still mountains, not hills like many Utahns claim.Heather the Mama Dukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03314177816405887405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-49737705253182293332012-11-04T20:03:35.307-09:002012-11-04T20:03:35.307-09:00@Heather: I’ll readily accept that judgments of be...@Heather: I’ll readily accept that judgments of beauty are subjective (with the proviso that people who think that the Wasatch Front is prettier than any part of the Appalachians are, put simply, wrong). But an unwillingness to accept simple geological fact? Can’t make an excuse for <i>that</i>.David Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881388186547426677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-90276495853738691122012-11-02T15:41:32.215-08:002012-11-02T15:41:32.215-08:00It is seriously weird that people have smugness ov...It is seriously weird that people have smugness over mountains. It's not like they had anything to do with them.<br /><br />However, I like to reply that theirs maybe taller, but ours are older. The funny thing is everyone would rather strongly in no uncertain terms tell me I was seriously wrong. And then we had the earthquake and guess what the USGS people said? Yup, it is partly because our mountains are *older* than mountains out west that an earthquake that would do nothing in the west is felt for long distances in the east. So hah. I was right (and apparently size does not matter, but age does lol).Heather the Mama Dukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03314177816405887405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-39423992282578921142012-10-31T20:53:14.449-08:002012-10-31T20:53:14.449-08:00@Mallory Nuzman: I’ll happily give you the beauty ...@Mallory Nuzman: I’ll happily give you the beauty of the Cascades—but the Wasatch Front? I mean, claiming <i>those</i> are pretty? Srsly?David Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881388186547426677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-54426098314007674382012-10-26T10:38:29.302-08:002012-10-26T10:38:29.302-08:00This makes me laugh! Growing up in Washington sta...This makes me laugh! Growing up in Washington state made me very smug about the Cascade range. I grew up in the shadows of Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens, among all the others. In my brief stay on the East Coast during middle school (NC state) I had that same smugness! Mountains! Ha. The Appalachians are beautiful...but c'mon...mountains? Yeah I felt the same way. Sorry, it's not just a Utah thing. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01561070064679531727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-44795139517981321512012-10-24T06:33:02.040-08:002012-10-24T06:33:02.040-08:00Hah! You should have heard the Utards (my daughte...Hah! You should have heard the Utards (my daughter's term) who came to Illinois and complained about there being NO mountains. A few of them actually began crying with relief during their exit testimonies when hubby finished school and they got to scurry back to their precious mountain refuge. It still makes me angry.William Regerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00405144868370246499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230245579458786956.post-40474934179010861402012-10-22T19:13:53.411-08:002012-10-22T19:13:53.411-08:00LOVE. THIS. POST.
Nicely said. I concur. LOVE. THIS. POST.<br /><br />Nicely said. I concur. Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13574266465859691077noreply@blogger.com