Thursday Thirteen

The other night we went to a little talk about the mountains in my county. I decided to look and see how many there were. To my surprise, we have 58 different "peaks" here! Some we share with adjoining counties, and in those cases the county lines run along the summits. Here is a google map that you can enlarge that shows the names of major mountains.

Anyway, these are the most interesting names of 13 of those "peaks" (and the ones I consider real mountains, more or less). They are not in any particular order.

1. Apple Orchard Mountain - so named, we were told, because at 4,225 feet it is the highest elevation in the county, and the trees up there are twisted and old, thus looking like apple trees.

Apple Orchard Mountain (listofjohn)

2. Sugarloaf Mountain, elevation 3,626 feet.

3. North Mountain (we actually have two "North Mountains" in this county - one which borders Rockbridge County to the north and the one I can see out my front window, which is more west).

Tinker Mountain, which I didn't list here, and North Mountain from our farm.

4. Wildcat Mountain

5. Bald Knob

6. Purgatory Mountain (always thought that one would be a cool name for a book)



Purgatory Mountain from Roanoke.com

7. Bearwallow Mountain

8. Rathole Mountain

9. The Knob

10. Iron Ore Mountain

11. Sulphur Ridge

12. Gully Mountain

13. Chestnut Mountain


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Thursday Thirteen is played by lots of people; there is a list here if you want to read other Thursday Thirteens and/or play along. I've been playing for a while and this is my 540th time to do a list of 13 on a Thursday.