When did you last go to the top of a mountain?
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@ChrisChris Exactly. I live in an area where in order to get to the next town I drive over the top of a molehill-sized mountain but it's still what we call a mountain around here. But if I was answering this question from a hiking perspective it would probably be over a year or two.
The navigation version and the hiking version share a word and basically nothing else. The Cascades recalibrated me years ago — anything under 7,000 feet reads as approximate now. Takes a while to figure out why everywhere else seems to be using the word differently.
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@evan Took the train to The Gornergrat about 45 days ago, as luck would have it. Before that, I think the last time I'd been to the top of a mountain was 2009, when I hiked to the top of the Pai Inácio. I mean, I did visit a mountain in Chile in 2015, but I'm not sure if the place I went to was the top or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gornergrat
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@evan I'm excited for your answer to this poll when it's done.
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@wjmaggos does it?
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Living near the Cascades means this question gets complicated. There are mountains, and then there are mountains where someone in the parking lot is still in sandals.
@ChrisChris
Kendall Katwalk last September... -
@evan immediately thought of the film “The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain”
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@evan I live in the Netherlands - what's a mountain.
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@wjmaggos does it?
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@gam3 What i would call a hill I think. @evan @wjmaggos@liberal.city
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@evan I live in the Netherlands - what's a mountain.
@gam3 you know how when you're riding your bike on a bridge over a gracht, and it's a little raised in the centre, so it's hard going up but easy going down? Multiply that by about 1000 and it's a mountain.
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@evan Amusing, given i just came back of a weekend doing just that. So, Friday for me!
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@evan would have been Cerro Mejía in 2009
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mountain
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/top
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/month
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/year
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/more
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/about@evan Until I saw that you listed links to all the definitions, I was interpreting your question metaphorically. As in, "When did you last persevere to achieve some great personal accomplishment?"
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@evan four years ago, and I came back with long covid...
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@evan the mountain by my house is only 1,077 feet
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@evan Until I saw that you listed links to all the definitions, I was interpreting your question metaphorically. As in, "When did you last persevere to achieve some great personal accomplishment?"
@stanley I think it's also vernacular for having an orgasm, so we could throw that definition into the mix too.
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@gam3 you know how when you're riding your bike on a bridge over a gracht, and it's a little raised in the centre, so it's hard going up but easy going down? Multiply that by about 1000 and it's a mountain.
@gam3 Hold on! I had another one: imagine a dike on the side of a canal. Now, imagine it pushed about 1000 times higher into the sky. And it's a little pointy. And there's no bike path on top.
