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

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

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

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.

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

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.

whatever you do, just don't live down there

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! 😎

Ours are older and were taller.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It's so cute when Americans talk about mountains.

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

The real difference between them is the trees.

The Nepalese: Oh you Americans are so cute.

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.