h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not being one of amazing Geographic talent (the blue category of Trivial Pursuit was always my worst), I'm curious as to what happens in Denver when it's foggy?

Do lots of people get lost because they can't see the mountains anymore?

Or are the mountains so close that even when visibility is drastically reduced their presence is still discernable?

L.

Once you've been in Denver a while, you tend to associate other landmarks with the location of the mountains.......for example, if your house faces south and you walk out of your front door, you expect the mountains to be on your right. So you eventually get a sixth sense of where the mountains are without having to actually see them. Of course, if you are in an unfamiliar part of town, and you can't see the mountains, you tend to walk around in circles mumbling to yourself...........

Or at night when you can not see the mountains you just drive around aimlessly lost and the you realise even if you knew the direction you were heading you are still lost because noting seems to make sense.

Try this - live in Denver for at least 10 years, then move to Albuquerque, where the mountains are to the east. Confusing!

Navigation is made easy by the (mostly) North-South, East-West grid layout of Denver and its surrounding area. There is, however, a small section of down town Denver that is a grid at a 45 degree angle to everywhere else. It gets very confusing when you're going up 15th street and suddenly find yourself at 28th street.

Downtown isn't too bad as long as you are within the 45 degree grid. But the edges of the grid can be quite confusing - especially with all the one-way streets, where it is real easy to go the wrong way if you aren't paying attention. (various intersections along Broadway come to mind)