Fries with that Mountain...

[The Repro Kid]

Here is that same mountain range again today, looming in the background on my street, about a block up from my house. As you walk down the street, you can see different parts or the mountains peeking through the suburban landscape. This is interesting to me because we've been so dry and devoid of rain these last two years, it's really been a while since I've been able to see them, and then again there has been no snow in the last two years either, so when I was able to see them, they had no snow. You can still see plenty of haze in the sky. There was one week about a month ago when it was crystal clear and I wish I had gotten some photos then, as the clarity and detail was really breathtaking.

[Paul C]

I love it when those mountains are freshly covered with snow, it's a crystal clear day in the 70s and you look up. Fabulous.

I often go out on a deck at work to take breaks and it has a wonderful view of those mountains on a good day.

Sure is crowded but I love LA.

pbc

[AdobeAce]

Hi guys,

Perception is reality!

Having lived on the West Coast (Seattle), every time someone mentions mountains Back East, I have to laugh. Simply stated, there are no mountains on the East Coast. Mount Rainier is a Mountain. By comparison, East Coast mountains are foothills.

Denali (The Great One - Mount McKinley) is a major Mountain (rising 20,000 feet from the base (which is almost at sea level). Standing 35 miles away with a Wide Angle lens, I managed to get just the top half of the mountain in my picture.

By the way, most people I hear saying "Back East" out on the West Coast, have never been here, so why is it Back?

Just kidding!

Ace

[The Repro Kid]

Yes Ace, Rainier is nice, and Olympia too, they both have beer named after them so you know they're important. Up there in Washington though my favorite Mountains to take a short drive through are the Cascades. You can enter Cascade Park in Washington below the mountains and slowly wind your way up, and then through, eventually leaving Washington and on into Idaho, then through Idaho eventually into Montana, where you finally leave the Cascades and exit the park. I have some pics from a few of those trips, taken with a "real camera" twenty years ago. Maybe I can find some of them. The park and the cascades also extend over into Canada and you can do the same trip on the Canadian side. We used to travel one way on one side of the boarder, and do the return trip on the other side of the boarder.

But Ace I don't Back East is such a mystery. A lot of western lingo harks back to the wagon trail and pioneer days, way before the railroads. From the east coast, one would head "Out West," and if one would run into trouble or have some misfortune, they then turn around and head "Back East." Nowadays people still refer to my location as Out West and your location as Back East. Or as you pointed out, at least Out West they do ;)

[AdobeAce]

But Ace I don't Back East is such a mystery. A lot of western lingo harks back to the wagon trail and pioneer days, way before the railroads. From the east coast, one would head "Out West," and if one would run into trouble or have some misfortune, they then turn around and head "Back East." Nowadays people still refer to my location as Out West and your location as Back East. Or as you pointed out, at least Out West they do ;)


Hi Repro,

I know where the expression came from. But I just found it funny that people who grew up in the West and never even visited the East Coast, called it Back East.

Ace
:D

[The Repro Kid]

That's what I'm tryin' to 'splain Ace.

The out west lingo was set into place over 150 years ago and it really hasn't changed since. As far as we folks out west know, that place you refer to is called "Back East," and it always has been.
:o