Replying to Rockies compared to Appalachians.

I was running today in my town and I was thinking about my trip to Colorado a couple weeks ago and looked around. Then it hit me that even in my town, stuck in the middle of the Appalachians, there was some pretty amazing beauty in it all. To think that many ice coast skiers have taken this for granted just awes me now. In the rockies there are jagged snow covered peaks which is amazing to see something different than what your used to but I bet that west coast skiers could almost be the same way that we are; taking for granted what is really there. They might come east and say wow, this is really cool and vice versa. Just look around and have you taken for granted what is really there?