Are you a mountain person or....

Where I live, it's a less than two hour drive to the Pacific Ocean or Mt. Rainier and the Cascade Mountain Range. I grew up in the Cascade Mountains and have lived my life within sight of both the Coastal and Cascade ranges.

I visit the ocean multiple times a year and spend each Christmas in a condo on the Oregon coast. While in the US Navy I steamed across the Pacific four times and across the Atlantic twice.

I love both.
 
I miss the mountains and Pacific Ocean of my youth, living in Vancouver.
Here, we have Lake Ontario, lots of forest to hike, and decent beaches.
There's also "the islands) to access by ferry, for wandering. O/H's grandparents
used to have a cottage there.

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C50 said:
Mountains or deep woods for me.
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Yep

Always been

Moved to the mountains the day I retired
Six years
In the cabins we built
Off grid

Something about;
mountain water
Mountain air
Quietude after a fresh snow

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Peace after a good storm

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A warm fire after coming in from the cold

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Critters, of course

Wrote something about our mountain home;


someone, in another forum, posed the question; ‘What is your definition of a cabin?’

My reply;

For me?

It's more than even Kinkaid could replicate.
It's warmer than the warmest of wood stoves.
It has more charisma than the grandest of orators,
more appeal than the most opulent edifice built.

Yet it's simpler than the simplest of abodes.
...all the while doing its modest magic

Turning a mason jar to a drinking glass,
a tuna can to an ash tray,
a wooden apple box to a cabinet,
a burlap bag to a slip cover,
favorite old clothes to attire of choice,
a stranger to an acquaintance,
an acquaintance to a friend,
a wife to a mistress,

a life....to living.


And for me,

it's now home.


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Geezer Garage said:
Have lived right here at 7200' most of my life, and it's definitely home. Also spent 4-6 months every year for the last 20yrs on the beach in the winter, but that home is about to go under contract. Will probably still seek out some beach time somewhere in the winter.
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Steamboat Springs is definitely some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen. I skied there once in the early '90s and went to the hot springs probably a few years later. I can see why you wouldn't want to move from there.
 
I was born in the Carolinas. We visited the mountains often because my relatives lived there. My father moved us to Florida when I was 8 y/o and I have to admit I loved the beach when I was younger. The feeling of the sand in my toes and the sound of the water was very therapeutic.

However, as I got older I longed to get back to the mountains and running brooks and streams. My partner and I have driven and hiked through the Blue Ridge Mountains in the fall. There is nothing like it.

We don't have mountains in Dallas, but we do live in a wooded area and see the seasons change so I feel more at home. I would love to get back to a place like Asheville, but real estate is so scarce these days. I am definitely a "mountain person".
 
oldaunt post #7 pic looks like the acreage we had as part of our property that we sold to retire in the southwest. We had 8 acres surrounded by undeveloped forest land.

Our home in Puerto Rico was 1 block from the beach on Caribbean side. Bella's beach pic in post #26 pretty much nails what that looked like.

Having experienced both I prefer the mountain kind of place to live. But practical choice in these final years dictates city living close to life's needs like walking to major grocery stores for food. Health care should an emergency happen.
 
As a many decades California landscape photographer, I like many Earth environments plus have studied much natural history so understand much of what I am looking at that makes things more interesting and deep. That noted, there are plenty of boring, uninteresting places in all environment types, so generally visit places I enjoy most. All places have preferred times of year and weather to visit and others to not. In terms living in a residence for years, I would prefer to live in Pacific Grove on the Monterey Peninsula where the sea moderates climate year round. Deserts have the most boring environments but also after wet winters have some of the most impressive places. Coastal seashores are some of the most aesthetic and fascinating places. That noted, miles off the coast, especially when foggy or windy is a yawn.
 

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