In California we lived at the base of the Sierra Nevada. Right behind Exeter sits a hill called Rocky Hill.
In Virginia they would refer to that as a mountain.
We refer to it as a foothill. Those foothills get ever taller as you drive deeper into them until you’re into the Sierra Nevada.
Folks have never been west if hills are mountains to them.
The Sierra Nevada is extremely impressive.
Don’t take that as a slight. It’s what people know growing up here.
The Appalachian’s are also very impressive and I wish I had the stamina and time to hike the entire 2,000+ miles of the Appalachian Trail.