One of These is NOT Like the Other
This post comes as a result of a conversation with a guy I met at a YSA Conference I was at last weekend. 
We were discussing his passion, mountain biking, and we started talking about the areas around Raleigh that are really good biking. I told him how I'm not much of a biker but that I used to bike when I lived in Asheville and biking in the mountains is tough stuff. Then we started talking about mountains. I asked if he'd ever been to the Western part of the state, he had not, and I told him how beautiful our mountains are. He then proceeded to tell me how beautiful the mountains in Utah were when he lived there. This may be a result of local prejudice but I just don't see the comparison. While I know the Rockies have their own distinct beauty I just don't think there can be a correlation of the two. I mean how do you justify the collation of something so brown to something so beatifully green?
Granted, I've never visted the Rocky Mountains as an adult and my recollection of them is very foggy... I'm going mostly off pictures here. I'm not knocking the Rockies and I'm not saying they don't have a severe beauty all their own I'm just saying...Look.
They call them the Rocky Mountains for good reason, they're brown and gray and very, well, rocky. Now look at the Blue Ridge Mountains, obviously they've earned the name because in the distance the mountains take on a blue sheen, and they're green in the summer, and extremely colorful in the fall. While they may be much smaller than what you find out west, they have so much of their own fabulous beauty. I think it may be a good idea for me to take a trip to the West and visit their mountains so I can say I've checked them out as an adult and form a real opinion of them. But really I just don't think any other mountain range will ever hold a candle to my beloved Blue Ridge. Call me closed minded or prejudiced if you will but when you grow up around all this green and you see something that's all brown, white and gray, well you just can't abide a comparison of the two. I will forever love, and hope to one day reside in, the mountains of North Carolina :-)
They call them the Rocky Mountains for good reason, they're brown and gray and very, well, rocky. Now look at the Blue Ridge Mountains, obviously they've earned the name because in the distance the mountains take on a blue sheen, and they're green in the summer, and extremely colorful in the fall. While they may be much smaller than what you find out west, they have so much of their own fabulous beauty. I think it may be a good idea for me to take a trip to the West and visit their mountains so I can say I've checked them out as an adult and form a real opinion of them. But really I just don't think any other mountain range will ever hold a candle to my beloved Blue Ridge. Call me closed minded or prejudiced if you will but when you grow up around all this green and you see something that's all brown, white and gray, well you just can't abide a comparison of the two. I will forever love, and hope to one day reside in, the mountains of North Carolina :-)
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Growing up equal amount of time in separate parts of the country - I'd have to say that they each have their own type of beauty and recreation. I thought I would never really love the brown/gray of the Rockies, but I do. I just think I'm more apt to live near the green.
But both are gorgeous - in their own way. They aren't really comparable at all. And we should go visit them so you can see again how different, yet pretty, they are.
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