And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Looks like the Himalayas, but it's really the Sierras in central California
Sadly I spent the first half of my life in CA and routinely going to the Sierras to camp, hike, fish, and ski. I never heard anyone call the mountains "the sierra" but I never knew Elmo. I've lived the best part of my life in the Rockies, short the Rocky Mountains, and nobody would ever call them "the rocky". Just sayin'.
I didn't mean to imply it's the only way to say it, it's just the way I say it. But then I don't call the mountain range to the north the Cascade, so there's that.
"While many mountain ranges are unanimously referred to in the plural (Smokies, Rockies, Cascades, etc.), since Sierra is already pluralized in its native language, some locals who live in 'the Sierra' are not hesitant to admonish those who refer to the area as 'the Sierras'. However, there are historical and literary references that use the plural, such as the 1871 collection of Joaquin Miller poems, Songs of the Sierras."
Full disclosure: I would not correct anyone's use of the plural. Different strokes for different folks.
The valley is only a fraction of the entire park. I've climbed on Mt. Lyell, scampered across glaciers, hike up and past Lake May, head south towards Mammoth starting below Glacier Point. Time spent in the park is a favored memory. A favorite mischief was after weeks spent in the high country to spend the last night in the valley. I'd simmer bacon through the night unto the morning. Watch the valley hippies go wild like cats on catnip.
I've been in some places in that park so rugged and infrequently visited by people that, if ever there was a place in California where native grizzlies still survived, that would be the location.
Looks like Half Dome in Yosemite Valley. Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteyeah, I call them the sierras too. Had one too many try to correct me saying it's proper to say 'sierra'. Fucem.
ReplyDeleteI've lived in the Sierra my whole life. It's short for the Sierra Nevada.
DeleteSadly I spent the first half of my life in CA and routinely going to the Sierras to camp, hike, fish, and ski. I never heard anyone call the mountains "the sierra" but I never knew Elmo. I've lived the best part of my life in the Rockies, short the Rocky Mountains, and nobody would ever call them "the rocky". Just sayin'.
DeleteI didn't mean to imply it's the only way to say it, it's just the way I say it.
DeleteBut then I don't call the mountain range to the north the Cascade, so there's that.
Y'all got me curious, so I went to Wikipedia.
Delete"While many mountain ranges are unanimously referred to in the plural (Smokies, Rockies, Cascades, etc.), since Sierra is already pluralized in its native language, some locals who live in 'the Sierra' are not hesitant to admonish those who refer to the area as 'the Sierras'. However, there are historical and literary references that use the plural, such as the 1871 collection of Joaquin Miller poems, Songs of the Sierras."
Full disclosure: I would not correct anyone's use of the plural. Different strokes for different folks.
From Wawona overlook.
ReplyDeleteThe valley is only a fraction of the entire park. I've climbed on Mt. Lyell, scampered across glaciers, hike up and past Lake May, head south towards Mammoth starting below Glacier Point. Time spent in the park is a favored memory. A favorite mischief was after weeks spent in the high country to spend the last night in the valley. I'd simmer bacon through the night unto the morning. Watch the valley hippies go wild like cats on catnip.
I've been in some places in that park so rugged and infrequently visited by people that, if ever there was a place in California where native grizzlies still survived, that would be the location.
DeleteI'd reckon , Half Dome is the most recognizable chunk of rock on the planet.
ReplyDeleteYeah, pretty much gives the game away from the get-go.
DeleteBut I'm pretty sure you'd get one helluva good argument from the Matterhorn, Mt. Fuji, Gibraltar, and Ayers Rock.
DeleteI submit Diamond head on Oahu.
DeleteSierra: The origin of the word and its meaning in current usage.
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