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If you're in Arizona then Grand Canyon is a must (just unbelievably huge), but another really interesting place to visit is Petrified Forest National Park - full of fossilized (petrified) trees laying as they fell.

http://www.petrified.forest.national-park.com/

Just kidding. (I hope.)

The caverns.

Hmm. Nukewatch has a map. Working Google Maps a little, I located WIPP road.

That locates it well away from the caverns, but within ten miles of Lindsey Lake.

How do you make a mountain wheelchair accessible? If you answer "pave it", you've kinda missed the point of climbing the mountain in the first place.

You don't make a mountain wheelchair accessible because those in wheelchairs don't require access to it. Even so, there have been some outdoor areas that have been made wheelchair accessible, even though it's not necessary to modern life. However, just about everyone these days, disabled people included, requires access to bank and government webpages. Denying them access is flat out unethical, no matter how you cut it. Whether or not places like YouTube and MySpace should be accessible is arguable, but there are good arguments for it.

Web pages are a human construct, designed by humans, to serve humans. Are you seeing a pattern here? We can't easily pave every mountain on the planet, but it takes very little effort to design an accessible web page in standards that accounted for disabilities from the start. Standards that are not disability friendly reek to me the same way that proprietary formats (which are often the same) do: they will not survive because they are not flexible or open enough to adapt to the changing needs of the humans that use them.

The funny thing is, your arguments sound a lot to me like those against universal health care: I don't need it, so why should I pay for it? The truth is, you don't know for certain that you will never be disabled. In fact, it's highly likely that later on into your life, your eyesight will degrade enough that fine print will be impossible to read. If nothing else, you should consider that in fifty years (maybe less), you won't be able to access your web pages because you were so short-sighted (pun intended).

Your analogy brings up an interesting point, though: are you saying that you are such a poor web designer that you can't make a web page more accessible than a randomly eroded feature of natural geography? All those brains, and tools to make web pages accessible, and you can't design a web page more accessible than a really big rock?

As to your comment of "missing the point of climbing a mountain", there are reasons to climb a mountain other than the challenge.

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Caswell County

Cascades?

I always use 90210 for the zipcode (regardless of what company asks)... It either gets a double-take, a question like "can I have your real zipcode",

Yawn, BORING! More interesting Zip Codes:

96943: Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
37863: Pigeon Forge TN (Home of Dollywood)
20505: CIA
92328: Death Valley
80429: Climax, Colorado, highest elevation Post Office.
97834: Halfway, Oregon, also known as "Half.com"
12345: Schenectady, NY
10048: WTC ...and of course the infamous:

17534: Intercourse, but this being Slashdot, I wouldn't expect most to be familiar with that locale.

Not geeky?? Where's your sense of curiosity?

I can spend hours prowling about trying to get a take on what rocks were formed when and how, what came first or later, how dinosaurs came to be where they are...

Did anyone mention Dinosaur National Monument? Where else can you watch an entire site under excavation, and see exhibits too?

If you're on US 70 in eastern Utah, there's rabbit valley, a small working excavation right along the highway.

But for shear audacity of God and man, you might cruise Lake Powell by boat, and then visit Colorado National Monument, which is the same type place, only not filled with water.

Camp at Big Bend Campground outside Moab (Arches and Canyonland NP's, plus killer red-rock biking) for a gorgeous sunrise, sunset, and convenient bath in the Colorado. Speaking of water, you'll need a ton of it, so you might not backpack to these spots.

I haven't been to Great Basin National Park, but it would seem to be the logical completion of this geologic odesy.

It is kass-kades, after the mountain range that separates western Washington and Oregon (the lush green parts) from eastern Washington and Oregon (the dry, wheat and apple-growing parts). The mountains trap the moisture coming in from the Pacific, which is why the Pacific Northwest can grow trees hundreds of feet tall.

The mountains can be pretty rugged, and it's likely they were named the Cascades because streams cascade down them. (That's a guess, though.)

In Washington, the Cascades used to be isolated until recently (check out North Cascades National Park). But with rapid growth in the Seattle metro area, particularly the many new housing developments in the vicinity of Redmond and beyond, people are building homes closer and closer to the foothills of the Cascades. Eventually, the Cascades will be... assimilated.