[Fictionary] SLEECH reminder

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

Hey, You Guys, Ever climb Mt. Washington in NH  in Winter?  People have died there.  Even in warmer weather on the flats, it's windy adn dangerous up there. In the mid-60's, I recall leaning into the wind on the Lions' Head Trail adn then having to bushwhack among stunted evergreens to avoid being blown off--in September.  Mount Everest hopefuls train there.  There is a weather cam at the observatory, but I'm not sure of the web site--you can have a view from the top year-round.  Linda  PS  On our first date, my husband David and I climbed into Tuckerman's Ravine on that molehill in the dark in 8 feet of snow in April with 40lb packs with skis tied on.  300 skiers were already there for some ski races. One of our friends, who was a great skier, climbed up to the headwall so close that he could touch his nose to the ice. I'm not much of a skier, and David had brought X-country skis, still our preference.  Now I use snowshoes.  And my aging body avoids climbing mountains, alas.  But David still leads Boy Scout trips to NH's finest.  L.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Hutch <hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] SLEECH reminder
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:52:22 -0600

When I was a little kid, we visited Sand Dunes National (then)
Monument, in southern Colorado. At Sand Dunes, there is a wide flat
area at the eastern edge of the dunes and water flows along this
heading eventually for the Rio Grande River twenty miles away. This is
called the "Medano River" (after an early settler). This river is
intermittent. When it flows at its heaviest, it tends to be a few
inches deep and about 100 meters wide.

One of the park rangers told of an eastern tourist who, on seeing
this, laughed and said, "We've got REAL rivers back east. Why, if we
had this back east, we'd call it a 'crick'."

The ranger replied, "Well, I'll make you a deal. If you let us call
our crick's 'rivers', we'll let you call your molehills 'mountains'."

In other words, no, there are no mountains in eastern North America. *BG*

BB,
Hutch

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2011 20:57:02 eLLioTT morEton wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, J-J Cote wrote:
>> > 1) We're still on Eastern Daylight Time.
>>
>> Oh, yeah, that's right.
>
> I recently visited California, stopping in Phoenix. That got me thinking. We
> have four time zones in the Lower 48, called Eastern, Central, Mountain, and
> Pacific. Eastern and Pacific are clear enough, but:
> *How can one of four equally spaced things be central?
> *There are mountains in the east and mountains in the west.
>
> Pierre
> --
> La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
> Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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