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

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

Its not the height, it's the age. Thar be eldritch monsters in the Appalachians. Rockies is just aliens and (Gay) Bigfoot

Western trails: Ascend on nicely-graded switchbacks.

Eastern trails: Ascend straight up a seasonal creek bed.

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! 😎

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

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.

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

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

We get it, people from the west coast, you're better than us, we fucking get it.

Y'all can find something else to jack off about now.

whatever you do, just don't live down there

Sometimes it's not the moutains that get you, it's the smaller hills and valleys surrounding them because there are actually people and roads there.

Sometimes if you make a wrong turn in Pittsburgh, you are not just going the wrong direction but are also at the wrong elevation or on the wrong layer, and there's no looping around the block to get back to where you started.

Disclaimer: This thread led me to read the Wikipedia article about Appalachia. Some definitions of the region do not include Pittsburgh or even parts of Pennsylvania, but at the same time there's a photo of downtown Pittsburgh at the top of the article, so I went with it.

The highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth until 1996 was on Mt. Washington, NH. That's gotta count for some cool points.

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

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.....

The Nepalese: Oh you Americans are so cute.

Can we get a map of mountain deaths? Mt Washington would run up the scoreboard.