9patrickmurphy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 amWe need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.
We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
Tolkien actually designed Middle Earth based on Colorado -- it's true! You can map the mountain ranges of Middle Earth to Colorado almost perfectly. Try it!
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
Read the dang book. You can probably check it out of the library or download it from a pirate site for free: Climbing Colorado's Mountains. I explain all of this in that book. In painstaking, freaking detail. A few of the range highpoint designations have changed since I wrote it twelve years ago (i.e., Eolus vs Windom for the Needles HP), but most of the data is still valid.9patrickmurphy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am We need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
Trolls aren't actually looking for answers.susanjoypaul wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:43 pmRead the dang book. You can probably check it out of the library or download it from a pirate site for free: Climbing Colorado's Mountains. I explain all of this in that book. In painstaking, freaking detail. A few of the range highpoint designations have changed since I wrote it twelve years ago (i.e., Eolus vs Windom for the Needles HP), but most of the data is still valid.9patrickmurphy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am We need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.

Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
i love when the forum members get bored/weird in the snowy months.
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
This hurt mesupranihilest wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:21 pmUSA_Colorado_relief_location_map.svg (2).gif.webp.png9patrickmurphy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 amWe need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
Haha! Ya'll are crackin me up!
It sounds like some sort of mental disorder to be obsessed about this stuff, but names really do impact things! Like Elks vs Sawatch, it's neat because it highlights to the person who isn't intimately familiar that these are two separate beasts, and then when you see them, it's like woah they are quite different in texture, shape, flora etc. Likewise y'all probably don't associate the Tusas and Jemez mountains with the 'San Juans', but they are more related to what's goin texture and geology wise on Wolf Creek Pass or Cochetopa dome than the Needles.
I loved the post with all the breakdowns of the ranges, that was great!
It sounds like some sort of mental disorder to be obsessed about this stuff, but names really do impact things! Like Elks vs Sawatch, it's neat because it highlights to the person who isn't intimately familiar that these are two separate beasts, and then when you see them, it's like woah they are quite different in texture, shape, flora etc. Likewise y'all probably don't associate the Tusas and Jemez mountains with the 'San Juans', but they are more related to what's goin texture and geology wise on Wolf Creek Pass or Cochetopa dome than the Needles.
I loved the post with all the breakdowns of the ranges, that was great!
Ooh, I will need to look into this, thanks!!susanjoypaul wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:43 pmRead the dang book. You can probably check it out of the library or download it from a pirate site for free: Climbing Colorado's Mountains. I explain all of this in that book. In painstaking, freaking detail. A few of the range highpoint designations have changed since I wrote it twelve years ago (i.e., Eolus vs Windom for the Needles HP), but most of the data is still valid.9patrickmurphy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am We need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
this may not be true?
because it sounds sexy as hell. but reviewing online points other way? and in fact there's some kind of AI summary on google now (which i hate) that directly rebuts this (as if to say this is common misconception?)
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Real-world locations that inspired Middle Earth
Switzerland: Tolkien based the valley of Rivendell on the Lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland, where he hiked in 1911.
England: The Shire, home of the hobbits, is reminiscent of the West Midlands of England.
Ireland: The Grey Havens are located in Ireland.
France: Helm's Deep is located near the Franco-German-Swiss border tripoint.
The Forest of Dean: Tolkien may have taken inspiration for Puzzlewood from the Forest of Dean.
The Black Country: Tolkien's experiences in the Black Country of the English Midlands may have influenced Mordor.
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and also when you think about it - prior to vail ski becoming a destination - hardly anyone in the world knew about colorado as mountain thing at all.
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Re: We should call the San Juans the Back Range since all of them together are almost as big as the Front Range
Actually, Middle Earth mountain ranges are based on Scraps the Skeleton Dog from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride:
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