Highest Point Where You Live

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  1. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    915 meters is roughly where the town is.

    But Zugspitze in Bavaria is almost 3000m.

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  2. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Mount Greylock a paltry 3,500 feet ..................

    but if you could go back in time 100,000,000 years ago these mountains were as high as the Himalayas are today

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  3. KL71

    KL71 Yanks since '81/Fins since '83 :)

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    I've lived in Maine twice. Their highest point is Mount Katadhin, about 5,268 feet ASL. It's part of Baxter State Park. Of course, I lived in York County. The towns were on the shoreline, so elevation was quite minimal.

    Mount Greylock has a couple of FM transmitters and at least one TV transmitter (a relay of ABC from Albany, NY on channel 19, licensed to nearby Adams, MA.).

    Back in the day, Mount Washington, New Hampshire and New England's highest point, was home to the transmitter for WMTW-TV (ABC) channel 8 of Poland Spring, ME. A digital signal in the greater Portland area wasn't going to work from that distance. These days, they're in Baldwin, ME, close to Lake Sebago.
     
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  4. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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  5. F6C

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    Looks like a picture postcardb Mally - stunning. I must take a trip there someday soon.
     
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  6. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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  7. Grandeur

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    There is a 1699 metres elevated mountain where I live. The ski resort is located at 1320 metres. And 21 km away from my home.

    In January 2017, snow depth was 250 cm in the ski resort.
     
  8. inthelibrary

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    Mt Whitney- I have been to the top and it was almost 15 hours rt.
     
  9. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Didn’t they recently find the Body of missing hiker on Mt. Whitney?
     
  10. inthelibrary

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    Not to sure, but I imagine so. It seems even here in the SoCal mountains. People are always going missing or dying. It may be just the sheer numbers of hikers and wanna be hikers that flood the highest mountains here
     
  11. 6-eyed shaman

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    Mt. Shasta 14,179 feet (4321.8 m)

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    Shasta is a beautiful mountain
     
  13. NubbinsUp

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    There are views nearby that are much more striking than at this place, such as overlooking river valleys from limestone bluffs, but this happens to be the highest elevation nearby. A mound, not a mountain, it isn't much higher than the land immediately around it. Because the rise to this point is so gradual, it appears almost flat.

    Bring the cross-country skis, not the downhill ones. Elevation 376 meters above sea level.

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  14. Grandeur

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    I live in Kocaeli Province.

    The highest point in Kocaeli Province is 1699 metres (let's just say 1700 metres instead of 1699 metres).
     
  15. KL71

    KL71 Yanks since '81/Fins since '83 :)

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    The highest point of Connecticut is barely in the state. That would be the southern slope of Mount Frissell in Salisbury. It's on the Massachusetts border, 2379 feet above sea level. The highest point in my home town of New Britain, CT is the World War I monument at the top of Walnut Hill. Our main hospital is a short distance from that. I don't think it's more than 500 feet up.
     
  16. wilsjane

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    We do not have any mountains in London, but the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, near Jane's home in Ireland are quite spectacular. Carrauntoohil stands at 1,038 meters

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  17. everything bagel

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    That would be Mt. Davidson which is not only the tallest point but also has what i think is the largest cross in the world at the top. Maybe it's just the largest in America. Sometimes they light it up and you can see it from from pretty much anywhere

    EDIT oops it;s a picture thread

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    Looks like a model
     
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    KPIT - Pittsburgh International Airport is 1,204′
    Mount Davis, highest point in Pennsylvania, U.S., at an elevation of 3,213 feet (979 metres). The peak is on a ridge of the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains in Somerset county, 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of Somerset, near the Maryland border
     
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  19. granite45

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    As far as the view gos, looking up at the14,400 + top of Mt Rainier from the shoreline of Puget sound here(-10) at very low tide is awesome.
     
  20. KL71

    KL71 Yanks since '81/Fins since '83 :)

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    You can sometimes see Mount Washington, NH from Portland, ME...IF it's perfectly clear, dry and standing on their Western Prominade with good equipment. At 6,288 feet, it's the highest point in New Hampshire and New England.
     

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