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desert sun · 02-12-2009, 08:05 PM

uh Amarillo,Miami,Chicago

DannyBanany · 02-12-2009, 11:16 PM

Chicago because it's only a 12 hour drive to the Rockies. If you go up 200,000 feet you can clearly see them too. I'd say that qualifies as a mountain town.

thePR · 02-12-2009, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DannyBanany

Chicago because it's only a 12 hour drive to the Rockies. If you go up 200,000 feet you can clearly see them too. I'd say that qualifies as a mountain town.

I think it's the 50' of change from the lowest to highest point which qualifies Chicago as a mountain city.

Iconographer · 02-13-2009, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by DannyBanany

I think mountain cities should be limited to cities in or against mountains. And by mountains I mean 6,000 feet or higher.

Minneapolis? Really???

So I guess any city in the Appalaichians should drop out of the game.

creeksitter · 02-13-2009, 07:37 AM

No, we have a couple of peaks east of Knoxville above 6500. But it might knock out Roanoke. How about 4000' as the measure of a mountain?

While Chattanooga has a couple of hills called mountains nearby (about 2500') it's 40-50 miles across some flat land to the appalachians proper.

creeksitter · 02-13-2009, 07:38 AM

Then again it's all relative. Maybe 3-4000 feet above the surrounding flatlands.

Iconographer · 02-13-2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by desert sun

uh Amarillo,Miami,Chicago

Well, there is that landfill in Pompano Beach.

ABQConvict · 02-13-2009, 09:45 AM

There are lots of places around 6,000 feet that are on flat ground. Stop using arbitrary 'above sea-level' figures for defining mountains.

Half of New Mexico is a mile above sea-level (5-6,000ft.) and nearly flat as a pancake.

I would say that at a bare minimum, 1,500 - 2,000 feet of vertical rise (base-to-summit, not ocean-to-summit) may qualify as a mountain, or at least a very big hill.

The mountains outside of Albuquerque rise from 6,000ft. to 10,000 ft. Does that make them bigger than mountains that rise from 1,000ft. to 5,500ft.?

ABQConvict

John Shaft · 02-13-2009, 01:52 PM

Anchorage is only about 500K in the metro, but it's far more "in the mountains" than a lot of the cities named so far.

creeksitter · 02-13-2009, 02:10 PM

"mountains outside of Albuquerque rise from 6,000ft. to 10,000 ft. Does that make them bigger than mountains that rise from 1,000ft. to 5,500ft.?"

I would say if you were looking at the mountains from ABQ and Knoxville, they would look the same height but yours would be nearer. The mountains in New Mexico would be much more likely to have snow on them.