I love hiking to alpine lakes surrounded by white glaciers and jagged mountain peaks. After dark, I look up and feel awed by the glowing Milky Way and billions of sparkling stars. We all need more low-level ecstasy in our lives.

Beach every time. Mountains are for hillbillies.

That's enough "beach" for me.

I love both but a beautiful Hawaiian beach will always be my first choice.

I'm going to have to say mountains. I am palest of the pale, and on the beach there is very little shade. I have about 3 minutes of exposure before sunburn. Being pigment challenged is a pain in more ways than one.

No vote but I am a sailor... a mountain may take me high but only the blue ocean is going to do it for me. And no better view than pulling into a port and you see the city from a distance in the high seas getting closer, league by league, waves smashing in sand, the smell of salt in the air, seagulls pointing toward a distant spot and you realize it is a nude beach!!! ...and no trees to fuck your view. Sleep tighly mountain people, sleep tightly!

As much as I LOVE being in and around water, I voted mountains. I just think they possess more natural beauty. Also, I hate sand.

A mountain lake is my pick!

I’d find a beach in the mountains.

Mountains only in case of tsunami.

A cabin or cottage in the woods for me, please.

I say beach but I preferred ocean. The ocean at night with no light pollution revels a sky like none other.

I grew up in a beach town was in the coast guard and spent most of my life living near a beach. Today I live In the Shenandoah Valley surrounded by mountains and I love every minute of it

Mountains nearly every time. But I'll take the beach when the waves are crashing and the wind is howling and there's no one else there.

You never hear anyone saying "You got a purty mouth" on the beach.

I burn to a crisp in the sun, so the mountains are always friendlier to me...with sunscreen.

I like the mountains but the beach is for me.

I am surrounded by both. I ask what can one do at the beach, besides launch a kayak. I much prefer a hike in the mountains.

Mountains. For pretty much exactly the same reason HippieChick gave.

Where the water meets the sand is one-dimensional; mountains are three-D.

Mountains of course !

Mountains over beach. Definatley more of an earth than water person. I feel more connected to the mountains.

Mountains , cabins and fire pits are where it is at.

I enjoy both but since I live near the beach. There is nothing like the beach air and sound of the waves. Now a log cabin in the mountains is not a bad thing either.

Both. Mountains for riding and scenery. Beach for swimming and perving.