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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9patrickmurphy wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am
justiner wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:34 am This is like asking how many continents there are, while also asking where the border of Europe and Asia is.
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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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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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9patrickmurphy wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am We need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.
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.
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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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justiner wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:37 pm 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!
I wanna know where Mordor is. I have some guesses...
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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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susanjoypaul wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:43 pm
9patrickmurphy wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am We need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.
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.
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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

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supranihilest wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:21 pm
9patrickmurphy wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am
justiner wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:34 am This is like asking how many continents there are, while also asking where the border of Europe and Asia is.
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

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All you need,
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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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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!
susanjoypaul wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:43 pm
9patrickmurphy wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:33 am We need RIGID CATEGORIES or else I am going to LOSE IT.
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.
Ooh, I will need to look into this, thanks!!
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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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justiner wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:37 pm 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!
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

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Actually, Middle Earth mountain ranges are based on Scraps the Skeleton Dog from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride:
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