https://rob.crabapples.net/categories/virginia/ en Sun, 10 May 2026 12:21:55 -0400 https://rob.crabapples.net/2026/05/10/random-east-coast-observation.html Sun, 10 May 2026 12:21:55 -0400 http://fahrni.micro.blog/2026/05/10/random-east-coast-observation.html <p>In California we lived at the base of the Sierra Nevada. Right behind <a href="https://cityofexeter.ca.gov/">Exeter</a> sits a hill called <a href="https://sierranewsonline.com/hiking-with-the-archaeological-conservancy-to-the-rocky-hill-archaeological-preserve/">Rocky Hill.</a></p> <p>In Virginia they would refer to that as a mountain.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Folks have never been west if hills are mountains to them.</p> <p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada">Sierra Nevada</a> is extremely impressive.</p> <p>Don’t take that as a slight. It’s what people know growing up here.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://appalachiantrail.org/">Appalachian Trail</a>.</p>