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Subject: Re: California: Grand Canyon and Yosemite Posted on: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:46:47 EDT

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:49:40 GMT, "Bill McKee"
wrote:

>
>"Hatunen" wrote in message
>news:cn48d1h8n3a3itld3jsbdbo99ffc8i1iah@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:04:17 GMT, "Bill McKee"
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Or for the most view, go to Mt. Diablo, out of Danville, other side of the
>>>bay. Only place in the world with more square miles of viewing is Mt.
>>>Kilamanjaro (sp?) in Africa.
>>>
>> I find the view fom Mt Diablo rather uninteresting, and I take
>> all claims of things like seeing the most area with a grain of
>> salt.
>>
>Well salt it. It is a fairly tall mountain with no other tall ones around
>it to block the view. The Sierras and Rockies as well as Mt. Everest and
>it's region have tall mountains blocking the views.

That's the probem with Mt Diablo: there's nothing to see from the
top except a lot of nothing. And, maybe on a clear day, the
Sierra Nevada off in the distance.

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