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    Darwin Roos
    Member

    @darwin310

    Locale: Great Lakes Area

    I'm looking to make a job change, but I want to work in a U.S. city that is in an area that has good backpacking (mountains) and kayaking (lakes and class 1-class 4 rivers). I realize this is just a backpacking website, but I thought I would throw in the kayaking part. Do you have any recommendations for such a city that has both in the area?

    Darwin
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    #1684003
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    Oregon and Washington are not good – rains too much – everyone is depressed

    #1684012
    Mark Verber
    BPL Member

    @verber

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    there are lots of other issues like cost of living, unemployment levels etc. In CA you could think about someplace like Sacramento. Not as costly as the SF bay area, has the American River not too far away which has some small class iv rapids and the SIERRAS!!

    What's your def. of mountains? Do the Appalachians count? If so, I am not sure what city, but the kayaking in WV is really hard to beat.

    –Mark

    #1684016
    David W.
    BPL Member

    @davidpcvsamoa

    Locale: East Bay, CA

    ^ Jerry is selling his state(s) short. It is beautiful in Oregon and Washington. Those Pacific Northwesterners are just trying to keep it all to themselves especially when it comes to keeping migrants out (I joke).

    #1684049
    Darwin Roos
    Member

    @darwin310

    Locale: Great Lakes Area

    I'm actually looking for any US city with a big university and any mountains for backpacking and good rivers and lakes for kayaking.

    #1684080
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    What do you mean by big university?

    University of Washington is in Seattle

    Portland has Portland State and Oregon Graduate Institute

    Eugene has University of Oregon

    Corvalis has Oregon State

    California has mountains and rivers and Universities – SanFrancisco area, Los Angeles, San Diego

    #1684095
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    "I'm actually looking for any US city with a big university and any mountains for backpacking and good rivers and lakes for kayaking."

    I hate to say it because we've got way too many people here already, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better match than Seattle for the criteria you specify.

    #1684104
    BER —
    BPL Member

    @ber

    Locale: Wisconsin

    Denver/Boulder. CU.
    Anchorage, AK. U of A.

    #1684120
    Chris Morgan
    BPL Member

    @chrismorgan

    Locale: Southern Oregon

    Boulder, CO
    Missoula, MT
    Boise, ID
    Albuquerque, NM
    Traverse City, MI
    Portland, ME
    Knoxville, TN
    Asheville, NC

    #1684857
    Darwin Roos
    Member

    @darwin310

    Locale: Great Lakes Area

    The Appalachians are fine. I'm looking for any mountains from 0-14,000 ft. near a large city with a major university.

    #1684859
    Darwin Roos
    Member

    @darwin310

    Locale: Great Lakes Area

    I'm looking for a university that has at least 20,000 students.

    #1684860
    Robert Cowman
    BPL Member

    @rcowman

    Locale: Canadian Rockies

    Vancouver, become Canadian…. we have jobs, funny looking money and lots to do, with no people around….

    requirements,

    Must love hockey, and you now drink Tim Horton's coffee…

    #1684869
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    "I'm looking for any mountains from 0-14,000 ft"

    I think you'e going to find pretty slim pickins' near the low end of that range. ;)

    #1684892
    . ..
    Member

    @dgowler

    I cant say anything bad about vancouver but I'm looking the relocate to calgary. 45 minutes and you've got anything you could ever ask for in the rocky mountains. Trails, rivers, and lakes in the summer. The winters aren't THAT bad, the chinooks take care of a lot of the snow and theres two world class snowboard/skiing mountains within an hour. They have the university of calgary with somewhere around 30 000 students.

    I'm actually more of baseball fan, but I second the tim hortons coffee thing. You may also have to get a cowboy hat and a diesel pick up truck with a 6" lift to obtain residency but I think its worth the trade off.

    #1684899
    James Marco
    BPL Member

    @jamesdmarco

    Locale: Finger Lakes

    Check out Syracuse, NY.

    #1687210
    Robert Cowman
    BPL Member

    @rcowman

    Locale: Canadian Rockies

    only in Edmonton and Calgary, for lifted trucks. some of the malls have adjusted the height markers to allow them in….

    #1687222
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    "some of the malls have adjusted the height markers to allow them in…."

    Were they clever enough to adjust the ceilings as well?

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