At the end of "1969" we see where the gate was. It was in a warehouse way on the other side of the country. If they'd emerged there, then the entire episode would have had to be different, because there wouldn't be a need for a long cross-country road trip, and young Hammond would have had to be something like a guard at the warehouse facility in order for them to meet him, etc. I agree that having it pop them out into the mountain was bizarre, but then again, even given what we know from later in the series, do the in-series physics allow for a gate to connect to itself through time? I suspect there's really no good way to make that episode consistent with the internal science of the rest of the series... and yet it is a good episode if you can overlook that particular bit.
(Note that this is an interesting subtopic for me, because I'm currently writing a fanfic that does involve time travel via a Stargate.)
(Note that this is an interesting subtopic for me, because I'm currently writing a fanfic that does involve time travel via a Stargate.)
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