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Dear SilkMuse: "Arc en Ciel" means rainbow. And the very best natural knife and plane blade sharpening stones are "ouachitas" or washitas.
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From the south, moving north.. to Canada.
(Ozark) (not considered part of the Appalachians, but actually from a geological point of view, should be)
North Georgia mountains (edited, as per AS!thanks)
Cumberland
Smokey
Blue Ridge
Shenandoah
Catoctin
Allegheny
Kittatinny
Poconos
Catskills
Adirondack
Berkshires
Green
White Mountains
Katahdin
Longfellow
Notre Dame(Quebec/Newbrunswick)
Long Range (Newfoundland)
Foot Hills and Highland associated with the Appalachian's (incomplete, to say the least)
Piemont Plateau (extends into Alabama)
Watchang
Ramapo
Cape Breton Highland
In Scotland/ Wales?
Cambrian?
Grumpian?
i am sure that there are more...
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Adirondack
Berkshires
Green
White Mountains
Katahdin
I've hiked many of the AT stretches in these mountains over the years, and the stretch in the Green Mountains is also called "The Long Trail." I tell ya, for all that it's not that long, it is looooong. Some rough, cruddy hiking, parts of it actually straddling a narrow stone stream bed full of coooold water. And that's in the summer. At least the skeeters take a pint or so of yer blood away each day, so yer load gits lighter as you travel.
Cool thread, ms. helen.
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Whoops! North Georgia Mountains, Helen.  I trust everyone here has read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods? Not his best, but still hilarious (and you learn a lot from it, too).
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...the backbone of Horseblock and Cheaha Mountains, the southern most extension of the Appalachian mountain range, to Alabama’s highest peak at 2,407 feet elevation. Southern hospitality abounds. - internet
Not all true. The piedmont region represents the earliest, and metamorphic, appalachian uplift and folding. The later sedimentary orogeny extends through Birmingham and then dips one mile deep beneath Tuscaloosa. In Alabama this two hundred mile long ridge is called Red Mountain.
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hyla, do you have a 50 mile badge? (or badges) NY trailwalkers (and other organizations,) offer badges to add to your pack for every 50 mile (and no, i haven't done 50 miles,) but i have walked some of the tail,(no more than 10 miles) where it passes through Bear Mountain State Park (Hi Rubrick!)and i've walked abit up in the white mountains (NH)-- but walk isn't the word to use with the White mountains!
there are some nice simple caves (been spelunking too) along the train in Bear Mountain park.
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Here in Kentucky I have heard both "Appa-LAY-sha" and "Appa-LATCH-a." I'm not really sure what I would call the "main pronunciation." Most people that I know who live in what would be called Appalachia tend to simply say "I live in Eastern Kentucky."
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