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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Jul 31, 2014 - 11:33pm PT
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Yeah, they try to say it is "Upper Yosemite Fall," "Nevada Fall," and "Tuolumne Meadow," etc. Who cares!! Call it "The Meadows" and everyone knows where you're talking about!
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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It's the Coast Mountains of BC not the Coast Range too
...one of the Pacific Coast Ranges.
....as it is the Coast Range in Oregon.
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Polar Bear
Mountain climber
Moraga, California
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Chris,
Thanks for including "Sierra or sierra's".
The Sierra is composed of many small "ranges" like we are composed of many small parts still making us each a singular entity. The Sierra Nevada is Spanish for "snowy range". The California Miwok named it "Kayopha the sky and the peaks that touch it". John Muir called it "The Range of Light". I almost never hear anyone refer to it as "The Range of Light". Maybe only John Muir and a very few of us see the Light composed within this single range, the SIERRA.
The non believers and the ignorant can refer to:
Place Names of the Sierra Nevada 1992 edited by Peter Browning page 198.
For A definitive explanation:
"Sierra or sierras" Sierra Club Handbook by David Brower, Ansel Adams, Harriet T. Parsons, Blanche Stallings, Charlotte Mauk 1951.
Best,
Steve Thaw, Moraga, California
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overwatch
climber
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It isn't that we don't believe and there are very few truly ignorant people here, it is that we just don't care
Edit:
I'm with klk
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Just watch your grammar pilgrim.
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Polar Bear
Mountain climber
Moraga, California
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Chris,
Thanks for including "Sierra or sierra's".
The Sierra is composed of many small "ranges" like we are composed of many small parts still making us each a singular entity. The Sierra Nevada is Spanish for "snowy range". The California Miwok named it "Kayopha the sky and the peaks that touch it". John Muir called it "The Range of Light". I almost never hear anyone refer to it as "The Range of Light". Maybe only John Muir and a very few of us see the Light composed within this single range, the SIERRA.
The non believers and the ignorant can refer to:
Place Names of the Sierra Nevada 1992 edited by Peter Browning page 198.
For a definitive explanation:
"Sierra or sierras" Sierra Club Handbook by David Brower, Ansel Adams, Harriet T. Parsons, Blanche Stallings, Charlotte Mauk 1951.
Best,
Steve Thaw, Moraga,California
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Steve Thaw Bump! The man that corrected my Sierra enunciation.
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ruppell
climber
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I had a long response typed up.
I just realized it was typed on the boundry of the range of light.
ROL it is for me.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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The first definition of sierra would be a saw, not a mountain range.
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ruppell
climber
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Fourth google search for "range of light"
Plenty of info:
ROL?
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Larry
Trad climber
Bisbee
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When I hear people refer to "the Winds" in Wyoming, it bugs me.
LOL
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Rosamond
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 14, 2014 - 06:28am PT
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Yeah. A bunch of old school marms yammering and whining and wailing about an inconsequential piece of nomenclature. Until you can tell me the name that the first human who ever saw the range, circa 15,000 years ago called it, we're ALL WRONG, no matter what we call it. Now calm down, take your meds, and go climbing. I was born in the sierra, and I'm goin climbing in the sierras today for a bit, then I'll come home and drink a beer in the sierra, and fall asleep in the sierras. Words. The range of light will still be here long after humans have vanished from the face of the earth. And it won't have a name.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 14, 2014 - 06:43am PT
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I saw a Chevy truck in the Sierras. It was a Sierra. Its bed had several cases of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
LOSER! You could have had Keystone Range of Light!
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sketchypro
Trad climber
Melbourne, florida
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Aug 17, 2014 - 07:43am PT
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Another +1 for Polar Bear,
Coincidentally I just read "rough-hewn land" kind of a geologic road-trip from the coast through the Sierra to the Rocky
oh wait ...
should that be the Rockys?
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stonefly
Social climber
Alameda, California
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Sep 28, 2014 - 08:29pm PT
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The Oakland Museum of California responds to complaints:
"The name Sierra is already a plural. To add an s is a linguistic, Californian, and mountaineering sin."
Ansel Adams
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