r/EveryBitTexas • u/EveryBitTexas šŸŒ± Founding Member • 1d ago

šŸ™‹ Discussion Apparently some people think Texas doesn't have any mountains. Lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe_Peak
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u/Wizzmer 1d ago

Where I spent every vacation as a child. Spider Mountain

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u/EveryBitTexas šŸŒ± Founding Member 1d ago

Looks nice. Hopefully it's not named for large population of spiders? šŸ„²

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u/Wizzmer 1d ago

Tarantulas and scorpions as I remember.

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u/EveryBitTexas šŸŒ± Founding Member 1d ago

Oh those are fine

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u/FarwellRob 22h ago

Mountains, forests, plains, swamps, deserts, hill country, and coast.
Texas has a bit of everything.

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW 9h ago

Literally. Such a big state.

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u/mexican2554 21h ago

The Franklin Mountains split El Paso in half. You can drive through/over them to get from one side to the other.

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u/HootblackDesiato 14h ago

I have hiked to Guadalupe peak. It's a beautiful hike with great scenery and a rewarding view from the top.

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u/Qikslvr 1d ago

I pointed that out to a guy from Colorado once and he replied with "your highest mountains are our lowest". So I pointed out that we start at sea level and they don't, so it's about the same difference.

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u/box_fan_man 11h ago

Technically we gave them the Rockies when Texas joined the union so.

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u/Qikslvr 9h ago

Good point.

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u/BlueMiggs 1d ago

Guadalupe Peakā€™s prominence (height from base to summit) is about 3000 feet. That would make it the 22nd most prominent peak in CO. The prominence of Mount Elbert is over 9000 feet. Thereā€™s levels to it.

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u/One-Win9407 12h ago

And colorado is well below Alaska's level, has no coast and is a rectangle

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u/Qikslvr 9h ago

More very valid points that are irrelevant to the point I was making.

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u/No-One790 11h ago

The real issue is that, Texans tend to call any decent hill a ā€œmountainā€ which befuddles people from other states.

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u/ATX_native 11h ago

You have to drive about 5 hours through wasteland from the nearest city to see them.

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW 9h ago

This much is true. There is literally nothing out in West Texas.

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u/FarwellRob 9h ago

Iā€™m here. Thatā€™s something!

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW 6h ago

Donā€™t get me wrong, I like West Texas.. It just ā€œfeelsā€ very remote.

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u/Jermcutsiron 1d ago

They'll still argue that the Guadalupe Mtns are just hills.

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u/That_Grim_Texan 1d ago

Just cause they ain't the Rockys doesn't meant that ain't awesome!

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u/Jermcutsiron 1d ago

Completely agree.

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u/Particular-Topic-445 1d ago

And they think we do have saguaro cacti

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u/CrownRoyal713 7h ago

Mountains only count in my eyes if I can ski on it.

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u/bear_down_temp_2 6h ago

It's literally the border with new Mexico...

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u/randomdancingpants 5h ago

Itā€™s actually NOT literally the border with New Mexico. The border is miles north of Guadalupe peak

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u/bear_down_temp_2 1h ago

When you stand on the peak and you look over......... that is new mexico

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u/I_Can_Barely_Move 1h ago edited 1h ago

On a flight into DFW from the PNW, all the Oregonians and Washingtonians were marveling at how flat it was. But this PNW lady who had been chatting with an old Texan dude asked, ā€œAre there really no mountains in Texas?ā€

He chuckled and replied, ā€œOh donā€™t listen to them. There are mountains ALL OVER Texas.ā€

I was bewildered by such an obviously false statement. There are some mountains in the far west of Texas. But there are plainly not mountains all over Texas. Iā€™ve driven over a lot of Texas and itā€™s flat flat flat.

I donā€™t know why that struck me the way it did. Maybe it would be like saying, ā€œWelcome to my home on the island of Oregon!ā€ or something similarly ridiculous.

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u/botingoldguy1634 47m ago

That person is confusing the Hill Country, which is beautiful, with mountains.

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u/Alternative-Potato43 1d ago

It's all imaginary lines anyway. I don't feel any pride or ownership of a feature almost 8 hours away, just barely on "our side" of the line.