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Old 03-27-2018, 01:08 PM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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So, I live in the North Escarpments?
Yeah, enjoy the landslides.
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Old 03-27-2018, 01:47 PM
 
Location: Western PA
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Whatever they are, those escarpments sure are hilly.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:11 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Mt. Washington, Mt. Troy, Pleasant Hills, Penn Hills, damn, better change the stationery.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:13 PM
 
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I thought escarpment was what fancy restaurants called snails.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:18 PM
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rapid glacial melt eroded the topography. ravine town.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:19 PM
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Which word you would use for the terrain in PGH and Allegheny County. I always thought hills but I sometimes hear people say mountains. And "mount" is in the name of some neighborhoods and suburbs.
The Appalachians are really old mountains that are also eroded down to nubs of their former glory.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:28 PM
 
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The Appalachians are really old mountains that are also eroded down to nubs of their former glory.
Likewise, some of the tributaries that make up the Ohio River watershed in PA/NY/WV are among the oldest on the continent.

At one point, the modern city of Pittsburgh was under a glacial lake and its three rivers today could be considered what's left of it.
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Old 03-27-2018, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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I thought escarpment was what fancy restaurants called snails.
That's escargot!
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Old 03-28-2018, 07:19 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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That's escargot!

You can get them at any French restaurant in North Versailles. They put cole slaw on them.
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Old 03-28-2018, 03:35 PM
 
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You can get them at any French restaurant in North Versailles. They put cole slaw on them.
Next it'll be fries with a squirt of Heinz ketchup. Yinzcargot.

The views from these escargots....er, escarpments though.


IMG_4733 by James Fremont, on Flickr



I've slept in Pittsburgh for maybe ten nights, but on those ten nights this was the view from the window and I never got tired of it. All it did was inspire me to get out and see more of the city.
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