help me understand whats so great about the mountains (Kim: move to, beaches)

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by thinkin about it

I just completed a short trip to the mountains mid-state. It was pretty breathtaking visually on the whole, I admit that. But after like 15 minutes, my girlfriend and I were thinking "now what?" What are we missing in our personalities or perspectives that doesn't allow for us to appreciate the mountains in the way many of you do? I hope you can take me at my word in my sincerity here; I'm not bad-mouthing the mountains or Colorado. I just don't get it, and would like to.

For example, the ocean is also stunningly beautiful, but it allows for activities beyond looking at it. Fishing, boating, water skiing, hitting the pier, surfing, etc. Mountains, from what I can tell, you just kinda look at-then, well, I dunno? I guess you can walk through them and take pictures?

What am I missing? What do the mountains do for you? Thanks for sharing.

Mountains ARE GOD WORKS OF ART and if you Appreciate ART
you Appreciate MOUNTAINS...by the way people HIKE and CAMP in
mountains , and not just stand there and look at them!!! And more
IMPORTANT get a chance TO BREATH IN SOME FRESH "AIR"..!

[ocean2026]

Great topic! I see both sides although the oceans are obviously not represented well in a Colorado thread.

Mountains are good for your lungs and there are animals that can only be found high up.

Oceans also have wildlife. Where I live now in Texas (Rockport) there are always pelicans and dolphins splashing about. The breeze coming in off the water is not only clean to breathe but in the summer its cools and in the winter it warms ( by about 4-5 degrees). It also rusts any metal that's unprotected. The ocean also changes color frequently during the day- I had never noticed this before. I live on the intracoastal so sailboats and other vessels pass by and even some of the less than formally clad occupants are a nice vision. Sunrise over the water is super as well as sunset
( but I face East).

Its all good!

[solytaire]

Well Ill be damned..someone who finally thinks the same thing of mountains that I do.

I just dont understand what's so special about mountains. Most of them that I have been on are freezing cold up top (Except the ones in Hawaii) and after Ive finished looking at the "vista/panorama" the rest us just -- "meh"..

I just have come to the conclusion that mountains are so overrated its not even funny. Ive hiked them, Ive camped on them, I have seen the waterfalls...That just wasnt enough for me to justify all of this hysteria over mountains, at all. I guess its just because I view most of nature as beautiful anyway..so a mountain or two simply doesnt stand out from any other aspect of nature imo.

I think underground caves are much cooler than mountains.

Now if there were some way that I could explore the underwater mountains, then that may get my juices going.

[jim9251]

THE MOUNTAIN.
The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His observation omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.
The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like children round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.

by Emily Dickinson


I guess if you have to ask, you'll never understand.

[solytaire]

Ive come to realize that there is nothing to understand about mountains.

[breaksraver13]

Originally Posted by solytaire

Ive come to realize that there is nothing to understand about mountains.

Wow......what a sad individual

[solytaire]

Originally Posted by breaksraver13

Wow......what a sad individual

wow what a narrowminded individual

[breaksraver13]

Originally Posted by solytaire

wow what a narrowminded individual

Really?? I'm narrow-minded??? That comes after your comment about there being nothing to understand..........I think that it's just some people that I don't understand

[solytaire]

Originally Posted by breaksraver13

Really?? I'm narrow-minded??? That comes after your comment about there being nothing to understand..........I think that it's just some people that I don't understand

Which came after you said that if some people didnt understand the majesty of mountains, they would never 'understand'...I simply said that there is nothing to understand.

I didnt say that you shouldnt enjoy your mountains. If you like them, more power to you. But I do take offense to being called a 'sad individual' simply because I dont have the same appreciation for mountains that you hold.

I respect your right to enjoy and appreciate mountains. Im just saying that, after hiking and exploring a few large mountains extensively I personally find them overrated. There was very little luster left after the initial rush of witnessing the panoramas/vistas was over. But different strokes for different folx. More power to you if you enjoy them. I enjoyed them too, its just that they are nothing special imo.

[breaksraver13]

Originally Posted by solytaire

Which came after you said that if some people didnt understand the majesty of mountains, they would never 'understand'...I simply said that there is nothing to understand.

I didnt say that you shouldnt enjoy your mountains. If you like them, more power to you. But I do take offense to being called a 'sad individual' simply because I dont have the same appreciation for mountains that you hold.

I respect your right to enjoy and appreciate mountains. Im just saying that, after hiking and exploring a few large mountains extensively I personally find them overrated. There was very little luster left after the initial rush of witnessing the panoramas/vistas was over. But different strokes for different folx. More power to you if you enjoy them. I enjoyed them too, its just that they are nothing special imo.

Sorry, now I understand your point.........the original post was very "shallow" I think that is what bothered me most..............

Personally, nothing on this great earth gives me more energy than the peaks that surround me, they give me life and have made me the most happy individual that I can be.............I'm from SC and I have friends that love it and wouldn't move (personally it's because they don't really have the same sense of adventure or there just comfortable) but it doesn't work for me, I think it's hell on earth.........but on the plus side, everyone is different and if EVERYONE liked the Rocky's then we would all be living in the same place.