This is a recent text by editing director of Alta Journal, Blaise Zerega:
The summit at Heavenly Resort in Lake Tahoe is 10,067 feet up. Standing there atop the Sierra Nevada on a crisp, clear winter day, you’d swear you were gazing across not only the lake but the entirety of the Great Basin and all of Utah, glimpsing the Rockies in the fuzzy distance. Face west, and your eyes take in the Central Valley, hop over the Coast Ranges, and spy the Pacific as a thin blue ribbon on the horizon. Tiny snowcapped peaks lap at your ankles, and you confront a soaring vastness in every direction. It’s with great humility that you recognize your place in nature, in history; you recognize that, throughout time, countless others likely have stood in this very spot and that countless more will do so after you’re gone.
I like the way he writes, but it’s definitely not possible to see the Pacific Ocean or the Rocky Mountains even from the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada. There’s some wiggle room in how he states it (“your eyes… hop over the Coast Ranges“), but still…
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