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Those moutains are so quaint (media.piefed.world)
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[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago

They're both gorgeous. Why do we have to pit two queens against one another?

[-] uriel238 15 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] lgmjon64@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

May wanna add a camping saw or chainsaw to your kit.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

DO NOT TAKE SHORTCUTS THROUGH THE SIERRAS!

STICK TO ESTABLISHED TRAILS!

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Nah, me and my elephants will cross it, and they shall not expect it!

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But that Hastings guy said this route would save like 2 weeks!

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] redditmodssucks@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Ours are older and were taller.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

The thing about mountains is that they're all big when you're at the bottom of them

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

Mountains get so big because they have no natural predators.

  • Ken M.
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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago

whatever you do, just don't live down there

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

No worries: those server chunks haven't been explored yet. Give it time.

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[-] DonorTissue@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago

The geographical feature that you have no control over is for losers.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What's that? Can't hear you, I'm a mile above sea level and breathing the freshest god damn air on Earth.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Up? Where all my smog goes?

Nice try, skylanders. I'm going underground, where the real fresh air is hiding.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How do you know our Deep Anthems?! Reveal your treasonous source, skylander!

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 154 points 3 days ago

Man in a few million years that tweet is gonna look hella dumb

[-] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I had no idea the US was voxel based - no wonder everyone seems so strange over there!

[-] platypode@sh.itjust.works 124 points 3 days ago

The Appalachians have been mountains longer than North America has been a continent

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 days ago

To the extent that a portion of the mountain chain that formed the Appalachian Mountains is in Europe. The Appalachians were a part of the Central Pangean mountain system, which makes them older than the Atlantic Ocean.

They’ve seen some shit.

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[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And prominence of many is still impressive. And there's Mount Washington, where it's so crazy you can't predict the weather 15 minutes out.

[-] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

They're older than Saturn's rings

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[-] tutter 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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! 😎

[-] wieson@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Sky Mountain? Then it's basically the same as the Tian Shan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Logarrhythmia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Just love the first sentence

Himmelbjerget ("The Sky Mountain" or "The Mountain of Heaven") is a hill

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Sky mountains?

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[-] Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

It's so cute when Americans talk about mountains.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

The real difference between them is the trees.

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

It's true, got no mountains here. Go vacation somewhere else.

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[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

The Nepalese: Oh you Americans are so cute.

[-] DwellerVortex@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Mountains in East Coast are generally older while mountains in West Coast are generally taller

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

Appalanchians are over 500 million years old. They need to sit down and rest more.

[-] garth@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago

Western trails: Ascend on nicely-graded switchbacks.

Eastern trails: Ascend straight up a seasonal creek bed.

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[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 days ago

if "my mountains can beat up your mountains" is some element of the conversation, i'm not talking at all, i'm walking the other direction

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[-] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

As someone from the west coast and now living on the east coast, the number one thing I can say is.... the food sucks. All of it.

East coast food culture sucks.

Its either bland or some unholy pairing of bullshit (that also sucks). And I also think they go out of their way to make things wrong.

Try to order a "California Burrito" (if you dont know, Google it, pretty common), so what does Virginia think goes in it? Chicken, steak and shrimp and beans... thats not "choice of meat", that all 3 together. None of which is what is a California Burrito is...

Here in Viriginia they just fuck up everything. Order a Philly Cheesesteak... what do they put in it? Fucking lettuce and tomatoes.... what's not in it, fucking cheese. You get more authentic subs from big chains like Subway. Like these people dont have the internet to search.

Oh, and sit down at a Mexican restaurant, theyll bring you chips with white sauce. Everyone else is thinking "oh cool queso". No, not queso.... its mayo with some onion powder.... these mf serve tortilla chips with mayonnaise.....

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