I had no idea the US was voxel based - no wonder everyone seems so strange over there!
The north east mountains are beautiful, old, wilderness. So crazy in places you can’t even predict the weather. And if you’re bragging about size, maybe try remembering the US is not the world.
Why is mauna kea measure from the bottom of the ocean but non of the ofhers are. Specifically everest
The Sierra Nevadas are no joke. If you drive through them in wintertime you are absolutely taking a risk, not only because you’re driving on windy (if well-maintained) mountain highways, but you may get stuck in snow despite your chains and will freeze to death.
If you are lucky, a CHP or forest ranger may see you and help you out.
Heaven forbid you have engine trouble or run out of fuel.
I live in the Sierras and always keep a change of clothes, 72 hours of food and water (plus filter), a small pack, fishing gear and a radio in my car. You never know what could happen. I’ve had quick fishing trips turn into unplanned overnighters and had snow or fallen trees or wildfires block roads at all times of the year. We have exactly 2 roads into and out of our little valley.
May wanna add a camping saw or chainsaw to your kit.
DO NOT TAKE SHORTCUTS THROUGH THE SIERRAS!
STICK TO ESTABLISHED TRAILS!
But that Hastings guy said this route would save like 2 weeks!
Nah, me and my elephants will cross it, and they shall not expect it!
It’s so cute when Americans talk about mountains.
Ours are older and were taller.
The geographical feature that you have no control over is for losers.
What’s that? Can’t hear you, I’m a mile above sea level and breathing the freshest god damn air on Earth.
They’re both gorgeous. Why do we have to pit two queens against one another?
Because one is prettier and it’s not even close
Not everyone likes huge Mountains, smaller ones are perfectly fine, even preferred!
I love the ones that won’t hold a pencil under them.
Sure, the mature East Coast Lady wins…
whatever you do, just don’t live down there
No worries: those server chunks haven’t been explored yet. Give it time.
Gonna fall into the ocean
The thing about mountains is that they’re all big when you’re at the bottom of them
Mountains get so big because they have no natural predators.
- Ken M.
A decent number of the Appalachians have roads that go near the top.
So does Pikes Peak in Colorado, all the way up 14,000 feet.
That just means they have better engineers and braver drivers, or the mountains are older and they had more time
braver drivers,
I used to joke that there were no bad drivers in WV, you either learned how to drive or you fell twenty feet off the road and got impaled by a tree. Unfortunately, since I was a kid we’ve put guard rails on a lot of those places.
I love my Cascades and the Rockies are majestic and impressive, but the Appalachians are basically the wizened old crones of mountains. They’re weird and mysterious. They’re full of forests and traditions and stories. They demand respect.
Also, listen, folks from the eastern Midwest are barely used to hills then having to drive through them is scary.
I’m in Minnesota and I get super carsick just driving in Wisconsin. I’ve gone up the mountain on Orcas island in Washington and it was very beautiful but I actually thought I was gonna hurl. It feels just like those pirate ship carnival rides. I really don’t know how people ride those without getting sick.
However the small mountains (more like big hills tbh) along the north shore of Lake Superior are fine and don’t make sick at all for some reason.
Pallisade head! I love the north shore. Moved away and miss it quite a bit
Ah, yes. The Old Gods of Appalachia.
Don’t forget, they are older and LOCATED IN THE RIGHT SPOT! Fucking Rockies just decide to pop up wherever they feel like.
Edit: spelling is hard
I don’t know. The Appalachians technically span an ocean. Though, they have a different name on the other side.
Both span an ocean …?
I love love love listening to my Western friends complaining about how much more difficult Appalachian trails are. See this creek bed? That’s the trail. No pansy switchbacks to keep the grade nice. If there’s a headwall, we’re going straight to the lip.
A triple crowner once told me the hardest of the three trails physically is by far the AT, but it is the easiest logistically. The easiest physically is the CDT but is the most dangerous because of the logistical difficulties. The PCT is the nice middle ground
The real difference between them is the trees.
Thats cute.
Look at the danish mountains and despair!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelbjerget
Sky Mountain! a whopping peak height of 140m elevation. A hike so deadly that it is a time honored tradition to let our kindergarten aged children ‘climb’ it. Takes an afternoon (barely) and theres a small giftshop selling icecream and knick knacks on top of it.
Try and best that yanks! 😎
Sky Mountain? Then it’s basically the same as the Tian Shan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just love the first sentence
“Himmelbjerget (“The Sky Mountain” or “The Mountain of Heaven”) is a hill”
that whole country walks up for gatherings.
Sky mountains?
Oh wow even the Netherlands that is as flat as a pancake and half the country sits below sea level has a higher mountain
the dutch and the danish, united in having a flat as fuck country and a love for pastries ✊
And bicycles
My hometown has a “mountain” almost twice as tall as this. And it’s nowhere near the Alps or Rocky Mountains.
Mountains in East Coast are generally older while mountains in West Coast are generally taller
Appalanchians are over 500 million years old. They need to sit down and rest more.
I’ve lived in several places, all FLAT. Whenever I visit a mountainous place like Denver, it always seems so weird that there are these mountains always looming over me. At least you always know which way is west.
I grew up in hill country and I cannot for the life of me understand how people live in the flatlands. It makes me physically uncomfortable.
Same. It’s disorienting.
Oh god, same. I’m a mountain kid, the plains make me agoraphobic as hell. I tried living in the Midwest. I literally was slowly going insane, the landscape and the people were driving me crazy. I’m not kidding, I had to come home and restart my prescription.
Praire madness is so damn real. I thought it was made up. NO. I love my mountains, I can’t live without them.
Flat lands are like the liminal spaces of lands
They are the backrooms of geography
