When did you last go to the top of a mountain?

[chrischris@theforkiverse.com]

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.

[carloshr@lile.cl]

@evan

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@wjmaggos does it?

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@evan Depending on my mood of the day on the meaning of a mountain, last June or last March (exactly a year ago).

Is “Mount Royal”/“mount Saint-Hilaire” a mountain or a hill? Today, yes… tomorrow, who knows!

[jessamyn@glammr.us]

@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.

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@evan rofl

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@evan about 10 years: visited the Masada mountaintop fortress site in Israel while in the country for a conference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@evan “that depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@evan it’s winter here, the mountaintops are slidy

So more than three months, but less than a year ago

[chrischris@theforkiverse.com]

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.

[ygor@floss.social]

@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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Pai_In%C3%A1cio

[6lr61@mastodon.social]

@evan I'm excited for your answer to this poll when it's done.

[wjmaggos@liberal.city]

@evan

Wikipedia: Mount Royal is a large hill...

I think not.

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@ChrisChris
Kendall Katwalk last September...

[rickscully@heads.social]

@evan immediately thought of the film “The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain”

[gam3@ruby.social]

@evan I live in the Netherlands - what's a mountain.

[gam3@ruby.social]

@evan @wjmaggos Is Mountreal a mountain?

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@gam3 What i would call a hill I think. @evan @wjmaggos@liberal.city

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@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.

[axx@mstdn.fr]

@evan Amusing, given i just came back of a weekend doing just that. So, Friday for me!