Mountain People..???

6/18/2008 5:48:25 PM	Mountain People..???
sweet_taurus Laytonville, CA age: 58	Any mountain people out here..??? How is your life different than that of the "flatlanders"...???
6/19/2008 12:36:11 AM	Mountain People..???
highlandscout Twisp, WA age: 90	the country discussions and then mountain people caught my attention... Some notions started running off in response to your... question: Up and down... No long straight lines. Here, with: ...up a few thousand feet in 10, 20 miles, to the forests and cattle and cool lakes and mountain air in the heat of summer with the frequent forest fire smoke moving lower or into the heart of winter, snow and ice and all that goes with that... and then down from either side to a narrow orchard valley along the river no one wants to swim in... well, there are young fellows off the bridge at plus 100 degrees... and valley highway can put dozens off the road with any of its storms and melts and freezes... Up and down the mountain with the rig, the truck that hauls materials to build with, fencing supplies, cordwood for winter gotten off miles of more unimproved mountain roads, groceries and kids and dogs and over time tons of bags of feed and bales of hay... up and down the mountain, off onto some owner maintained dirt road towards home, sometimes chained up, too often a bit overloaded to save a second long trip.... Wouldn't trade it for a thing...i would, however, consider bargaining for a buggy. Riding to town is a pretty full day. Riding back home is another... and there are no stables in town! Stable-ize the economy! With 70 to 80 percent of the food in the mouth coming out the rear rich in all things good for any garden. The community garden compost pile! manure enrichens... the poor eat better. What with the price of fuel... 1T or 3/4T 4-wheel drive diesel pulling a 4 or 6 horse trailer... you can't stop in town very long on a hot day. You gotta' go up the mountain... and that's OK... up the mountain. If the town had a stable, some good places several horse could be safe... out of the trucks... riddent o town on the weekends... in a year tons of manure and everyone in town is less poor! You ever sleep outside down there in Texas somewhere where the world looks like the flat of a table top for as far as you can see, hardly anything is growing up out of the ground and the sky comes down over it all like a bowl of stars turned over on the land? Those folks who live down there have told me they get a weird feeling in the mountains. I felt vulnerable down there. No where to get out of the way! I think my people have been in the hills and mountains for generations... thank you. What kind of world do you live in? How about your predecessors? [Edited 6/19/2008 12:40:08 AM PST]
6/19/2008 11:14:53 PM	Mountain People..???
sweet_taurus Laytonville, CA age: 58	Good reply... I can't relate to flat as a pancake flatlands... I know my friends in Texas are proud as punch about the "Hill Country", yet, to me I just have to bite my tongue so I don't start laughing... This area is a very rugged area and I'm 7 miles from the nearest pavement... The local Cahto Indians did not have words for the 4 directions as we know them, but they referrenced everything as being upstream or downstream, and flat land up in the mountains is very rare...it takes a bulldozer to create any flat spots here...
6/21/2008 5:55:37 AM	Mountain People..???
woodsandwater White Sulphur Springs, WV age: 44	Southern WV here. Everybody minds thier own, but are willing to help at the drop of a hat. I came home to a message on the voice mail, "Joe this is Billy, I think your pigs are in my garden. When you get home would you mind comming up and getting them?" My dog and I walked up to Billy's. The three of us walked my pigs back to the pasture, about 2 miles. Billy understood about the pigs being out as he has raised them in the past. That spring I gave Billy and his family a ham. I told him that he helped feed them so he should help eat them. I later found out that an old toothless bear was eating the hog feed and scareing the pigs.
6/21/2008 6:03:30 AM	Mountain People..???
lilguppy2bit Auburn, WA age: 54	When I left Az, coming back to wast the roads were one at a time (narrow) in most places and switchbacks that a city person would look at and refuse to go on. in some places part has fallen away and you get out with the tools and re widen ... ( have also carried TNT) helps keeps the roads open, can shoot when needed and to wear your guns is normal. then came back to Wa, still in countrybut lots more greenery and not so much work,lots of other difs. but still won't live in city...
7/10/2008 1:03:03 PM	Mountain People..???
sweet_taurus Laytonville, CA age: 58	Great stories everybody... It's those switchbacks that keep the city folks at bay...I'm 7 miles from the nearest pavement...and the city folks in their "pavement cars" do stand out... Animals & fences...an ongoing saga of daily life.. I guess it's too our ADVANTAGE that many city folks are very scared & intimidated by country / mountain life...these folks have never really seen all the stars at night, cannot hear the woods for the silence, don't know what it's like to not have a bunch of streetlights on a night... When I go to urban areas (which is very rare) I really have to resist shouting "Hey y'all left the lights on" !!! I'm a native Californian, born in a very urban area, and got the hell out just as soon as I was able...the places I used to ride horses are now industrial parks & 4 lane roads full of uptight commuters... At night I usually see only 2 ro 3 lights in the distance, over 1.5 miles away across a canyon, & I can see the ocean on a good day (not lately with all the wildfire smoke)...
7/11/2008 6:41:24 AM	Mountain People..???
woodsandwater White Sulphur Springs, WV age: 44	I live off of a "lay over" road, one lane, three miles from the county road. A traffic jam is when you meet someone on the road. Normally you pull up to each other and turn off the trucks to BS and see how the other is doing. If someone pulls up behind you they too turn off the truck and walk up to BS also.
7/18/2008 10:40:49 AM	Mountain People..???
kathy5311 Jackson, GA age: 41	Quote from woodsandwater: I live off of a "lay over" road, one lane, three miles from the county road. A traffic jam is when you meet someone on the road. Normally you pull up to each other and turn off the trucks to BS and see how the other is doing. If someone pulls up behind you they too turn off the truck and walk up to BS also. I wanna live there!!!
7/31/2008 2:23:06 PM	Mountain People..???
ladyhawkeco Penrose, CO age: 59	Do the Rocky's count as being Mountains .. if so I guess I'm a mountain person!~
7/31/2008 4:51:10 PM	Mountain People..???
winesong Bend, OR age: 61	I live with a view of the Cascade Range...7 snow caps from my decks. Picture on my profile page of three of the peaks. The Three Sisters, Faith, Hope and Charity. Mt. Jefferson Mt. Hood, Mt. BAchelor Broken Top Mt. Washington I live at the 3800 foot level.. Cascade snow caps. Clean air with no pollution...we have 4 seasons.. we are a ski resort. Winesong
8/2/2008 2:44:09 AM	Mountain People..???
sweet_taurus Laytonville, CA age: 58	A friend of mine used to work at KICE-FM, in Bend
8/14/2008 11:39:10 PM	Mountain People..???
keeperoftheword Valdez, AK age: 20	Hi i do not live in the contry any more but i do live in the montanis like meaning thier is one right in my front yard and only one road out of the town that i live in. I used to live in Northren Indiana and i now live in Alaska it is very different the town that i live in is like living in a fish bowl and you only have three options on leaveing the town by boat, plane, or drive if you feel like driving 6 to 7 hours just to go shopping. But that is what it is like for me to live in the mountains and we have bears that like to come into the houseing developments. But that is just my exprince about living in the mountains.
8/16/2008 10:38:12 PM	Mountain People..???
missedagain Prineville, OR age: 64	Even the word mountain means different things to different people. To me, if it has no glaciers, or snow year round, it's a hill.
8/17/2008 5:45:17 AM	Mountain People..???
leila123 Liberty Hill, TX age: 61	Quote from sweet_taurus: Good reply... I can't relate to flat as a pancake flatlands... I know my friends in Texas are proud as punch about the "Hill Country", yet, to me I just have to bite my tongue so I don't start laughing... This area is a very rugged area and I'm 7 miles from the nearest pavement... The local Cahto Indians did not have words for the 4 directions as we know them, but they referrenced everything as being upstream or downstream, and flat land up in the mountains is very rare...it takes a bulldozer to create any flat spots here... Though you may be proud of where and how you live, so are we. You're darn right that we're proud of our hill country in Texas. We're love our whole state! Texas has all sorts of terrain. We have the desert, we have farmlands, ranch lands, we have the plains, we have mountains, we have the piney woods, we have the ocean and coastlands and yes, we have the breathtakingly beautiful hill country. I live in the hill country outside of a small town but I'm close enough to drive to Austin for work each day. I wouldn't trade where I live either. It's very quiet and you can enjoy the stars at night. A lot of deer and many other wildlife here. Because of where I live, I can enjoy the best of not only the country but the city too. I don't laugh at any of you for your pride in where you live. I love the mountains too, but thank God it's not the only place on earth nor do I care to live in seclusion. I like people too much. Have a blessed day, Leila [Edited 8/17/2008 5:55:01 AM PST]
8/21/2008 10:18:46 PM	Mountain People..???
travelgnome Marietta, GA age: 28	any folks from north GA? like crandall and grassy mt area?
8/24/2008 10:19:02 AM	Mountain People..???
tshunkapajuta Fossil, OR age: 52	how about fossil oregon-we sit right in the middle of a bunch of mountains
10/10/2008 3:56:52 PM	Mountain People..???
nancytwo Berkeley Springs, WV age: 52	Does anyone know about add on wood burners, it’s like a wood stove that you hook to your gas or electric furnace and it uses the blower and existing furnace vents to heat the house.
11/11/2008 12:32:06 AM	Mountain People..???
sweet_taurus Laytonville, CA age: 58	I've never heard of these, and they may NOT be code compliant & might be VERY dangerous Wood burning is NOT compatible with gas vent flue...you could burn your house down...!!! Electric heaters do not use flues, so that is an issue... The hot gasses in a fire are much hotter than the gasses from a gas heater, and a gas vent flue is too SMALL & not sealed & INSULATED well enough... IF you have ANY doubts consult you local fire marshall & building inspector...
11/11/2008 12:42:30 AM	Mountain People..???
sweet_taurus Laytonville, CA age: 58	Quote from leila123: Though you may be proud of where and how you live, so are we. You're darn right that we're proud of our hill country in Texas. We're love our whole state! Texas has all sorts of terrain. We have the desert, we have farmlands, ranch lands, we have the plains, we have mountains, we have the piney woods, we have the ocean and coastlands and yes, we have the breathtakingly beautiful hill country. I live in the hill country outside of a small town but I'm close enough to drive to Austin for work each day. I wouldn't trade where I live either. It's very quiet and you can enjoy the stars at night. A lot of deer and many other wildlife here. Because of where I live, I can enjoy the best of not only the country but the city too. I don't laugh at any of you for your pride in where you live. I love the mountains too, but thank God it's not the only place on earth nor do I care to live in seclusion. I like people too much. Have a blessed day, Leila I have friends in Bee Creek, Spicewood, & Pedernales, and those are just not real mountains...I know a little about texas...I have kin from Lubbock & the Llano Estacado, down to Corpus, & my grandparents are buried in San Angelo...the closest thing to mountains there is down by Del Rio...which is why my friends and relative to to Colorado, Utah, California, & Oregon to ski... PS...R.I.P. "The Backyard" on lake Travis...it was a good venue... Poodie's is still going strong... [Edited 11/11/2008 12:43:11 AM PST]
11/11/2008 7:34:37 AM	Mountain People..???
nancytwo Berkeley Springs, WV age: 52	What do the true, don’t live near civilization people do for a living? Do you work for a living or are you retired and living off a fixed income. If you don’t have an income how do you get your food, water, electric ect… Seems like driving 3 + hours, or being snowed in would make holding a job a little hard.
11/19/2008 4:30:28 PM	Mountain People..???
msar Auburn, IN age: 43	I currently live in northern Indiana, But I am buying 157 acres just south east of Anaconda MT.. My driveway is 7 miles of BLM right-of-way just to get to my property. I am land locked by about 2 million acres of BLM. Can we say no neighbors. In Indiana my ears have a constant high pitch ringing all the time, but when I am on my piece of heaven the ringing stops. The doctors say my ears are sensitive to the high frequency pitch that electricity puts off. What more reason would anyone need to get away? TO watch the lightening bounce off the peaks during a storm is a most beautiful and humbling thing. Thank you for the post.

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