{"id":3395,"date":"2015-11-15T08:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2015-11-15T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T15:57:36","slug":"regional-roundup-6-the-mountain-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"Regional Roundup 6: The Mountain West"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Mountain West<\/a>\u00a0is a region that\u00a0I almost\u00a0feel like I’m making up, but when we asked people in Utah, Idaho and Montana where they thought they were regionally, this is what they said. Wikipedia does acknowledge it as the Rocky Mountain region basically, but it also includes the South West, which is definitely different, though similar in some positive ways.\u00a0We are going to include most of Idaho, Montana, Northern Utah, Colorado, Northern Nevada and Wyoming in this region which is characterized by mountains and low humidity.<\/p>\n

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Some of it is what is called high desert<\/a>. This was one of our favorite regions as it was also just epic. We are not people who throw around words like epic, but it looked fantastic. The mountains are amazing. Even the flat parts were exotic and strange and beautiful. Idaho was the most surprisingly gorgeous place. The canyons, rivers and lakes were some of the most beautiful in the country. This region was also full of people who were extremely open and friendly. It was very easy to talk to them. It might be a little colder than we want, but if we change our minds about a hot desert, we may consider some of these high desert mountain states.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video:<\/p>\n