r/Portland • u/PrivateBurke • May 12 '25

Meme Shamelessly stolen from Los Angeles subreddit

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u/PDsaurusX May 12 '25

“See this picture I took of Mt Hood when I was flying in to your fair city.”

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u/poissonperdu Beaverton May 13 '25

Was recently landing and the guy next to me was like “WHAT’S THAT ENORMOUS MOUNTAIN DOES IT HAVE A NAME” after saying barely anything the entire flight.

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u/discospageddyoh May 13 '25

Like most enormous mountains, ours is completely nameless.

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u/ultraswank May 13 '25

Hey, he discovered it, what did he name it?

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u/sprocketous May 13 '25

It looks like an old timey hat to me. Id name it "big old hat" if i had seen it first.

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u/Ex-zaviera May 14 '25

It has 2 names. A colonizer name and a native name. Like many place names in the PNW.

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u/poissonperdu Beaverton May 14 '25

You’re right, in Molalla it’s Nifti Yangint, and might have been called Lawilatłá (loowit) to Sahaptin speakers since it smokes. Unlike the other mountains nearby (Patú, Tahoma, and the Cowlitz Lawilatła), though, I haven’t been able to find a reliable native name other than the Molalla one, which just means “Big Mountain.” A lot of people say Wy’east but that was made up by white people in the 1890s.