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takingastep t1_jdighbi wrote

This pic is kinda messing with my sense of scale a bit. I'm seeing the grass up close in the foreground, and you'd think it'd be knee/waist high at most. But the apparent distance between the foreground and background seems probably a lot shorter than it likely is, so the mountains look kinda miniature, as if a person's height would come up to the 3rd or 4th noticeable layer from the bottom, instead of maybe the 1st layer at most.

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MortimerMcMire315 t1_jdisicy wrote

The hills are actually quite small. I came through on a road trip last summer and was surprised at how short they were. I can't find any numbers for average height on Google, but a topo map would have the info.

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takingastep t1_jditb4j wrote

Google Maps has a "Terrain" layer you can select; it puts height contours on the regular map. Looks like the tops range from ~2800 ft to just over 3000 ft, with the typical nearby flatland surface contours around 2100 ft. So yeah, not that tall, it seems. Interesting.

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bowieziggyaladdin OP t1_jdivkyr wrote

If I remember right the grass was about knee high at most, I wasn’t standing too far from the range when I took it, maybe about 2-3 football fields away.

All about perspective. I come from Illinois so they seemed like mountains to me 😂.

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takingastep t1_jdj9xux wrote

Perspective, indeed!

> 2-3 football fields away

/looks at pic again

Huh, that really doesn't seem that high, given that info; though I bet I'd say differently if I was standing on top of one of 'em.

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