I envey you Alberta Steve living near the Rockies. I am on the east coast and there is a lot. White Mountains in NH, Berkshires in Ma, and the Andarondacks in NY. There is a lot of veriety but nothing very high. The highest is Mt Washington which is only 6200 feet high with a relativley low vertical rise. To make up for it MT Washington has some of the worst weather in the world and we dont have switchbacks. Our trails go straight up the mountain. I would trade it all to climb a mountain over ten thousand feet.