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     andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 128 Registered: 04-2006 |
über die gipfel jagen nebelschwaden i am not sure if this is the right thing to do - but i will do it. mountains. movement of lithospheric plates. mountains. moves your soul. mountains. grandness. mountains. fascination. mountains. landscapes. mountains. effort. mountains. reward. rock, mountain, continental drift(ers), the mountain goats, the glaciers, volcano suns, (hank) snow (patrol),ice (-t), mountaineers. and beyond the alps lies more alps, and the lord alps those that alps themselves. (groucho marx) | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 573 Registered: 03-2006 |
It's okay, Andreas - you can't alp yourself! You left out the Scud Mountain Boys. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 674 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Scuds were great Hardin, but to me they never scaled the peaks that the Pernice Brothers have. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 575 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ain't that the truth...and then, the Pernices lost me a bit with Yours, Mine & Ours. But they got me back, to a large extent, with "Discover"...my fave is "Overcome", followed very closely by World Without End. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 492 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love Pernice Brothers. I even bought Joe's book on Meat Is Murder! Have not read it yet though. They're great live too. I do prefer them to the Scud Mountain Boys, though they had some great moments too. Have not listened to them in ages though. My favourite mountains are those surrounding Dingle, Co Kerry in south west Ireland. They separate magical Dingle from the read world. Honourable mention goes to the Blue Mountains (two hours west of Sydney - and they really are blue!) and the Snowy Mountains (a couple of hours south west of Canberra). | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 61 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Southern Alps (Sth Island NZ) rule. Rocky Mountains also rock. 'Mountains' somewhat of a misnomer in Aus - most are hills really... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 599 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm outta here!!!! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 79 Registered: 01-2006 |
Padraig yes they're beautiful mountains, though shouldn't it be An Daingean now instead of Dingle?? Others are Southern Alps (Sth Island NZ) as suggested by Mark Vancouver Island The mountain ranges in Chiapas, southern Mexico Northern Viet Nam | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 132 Registered: 04-2006 |
i think i haven't any favourite mountain. aren't they not all fascinating and beautiful? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 584 Registered: 03-2006 |
they are indeed. One additional benefit of them: if there's a bar at the top, you end up feeling twice as drunk, because of the altitude. There's a fairly beautiful mountain in the middle of Albuquerque, NM, called Sandia, which means "watermelon". It is so named because it takes on a pinkish hue at sunset. There's a bar at the top you can take a tram to and get toasted in while you dig all that beauty. I've never climbed UP it, but took a trail all the way down once, with a group. Even going down was no butterscotch pie...Little Keith was not so crazy about the mountains at that particular moment. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 62 Registered: 05-2005 |
The mountains near Delray (mythical I guess - there is no 'Delray' in Tasmania) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 495 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, An Daingean now of course. I really think that's ridiculous though; the vast majority of people know it only as Dingle and it was always An Daingean anyway in Gaelic. It strikes me as some sort of knee-jerk anti-Englishness, but I'm not there so I don't know if that's correct. I'm not speaking as an outsider really, my mother's family are all from Dingle and we went there three or four times a year every year when I was a kid, so it really feels like home to me. I'm looking forward to taking my daughter (who'll be 5 soon) there at Christmas. She was there when she was 9 months old but has no recollection of that of course. One of her favourite books is about the "dead monk" island so I can't wait to show her that (and she can't wait either!). I meant to write real rather than read in the first post, of course. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 159 Registered: 01-2005 |
It's hard to beat the Yosemite Valley with El Capitan, Half Dome, Sentinel Dome, Turtleback Dome, Clouds Rest, etc. The spring time is the beat when all the various waterfalls are at their peak. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 80 Registered: 01-2006 |
Its full official title is An Daingean Ui Chuis....bit of a mouthful for the tourists which I think is the main fear of local tourist lobby groups, 'Dingle' is a brand name etc etc. I think the last thing it is is anti-English to be fair Padraig, I think those days are kinda gone now, maybe it's just highlightd as a big issue with this town. Their main fear should be when fungi dies heh heh... You mentioned you had Wanderly Wagon on DVD, I got that a few months back too for my new baby daughter, more for the parents really I suspect... My claim to fame was that I went inside the wagon in RTE in the seventies, my aunt worked there and she brought us in, it was tiny inside as they shot that part in a studio, couldn't get my head round that. Unfortunately I didn't see Judge there, though he turns up now and again MCing for various Eugene Lambert shows, one of the Kings of Irish TV, they should bring him back, especially the Safe Cross Code.... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 512 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, I got Wanderly Wagon for me really! I was very surprised my daughter liked it so much. I thought it would be too old-fashioned or too Irish for her, but she loves it. It just goes to prove what a great show it was. She has even re-christened a toy dog Judge (he does look a fair bit like him) and I have to put on Judge's voice for him! The second disc with the documentary on the Lambert family is fascinating too. Really well made. Well done to the Scannell's and whoever else worked on it. |