negativenull@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 天前Those moutains are so quaintmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square309linkfedilinkarrow-up1613arrow-down136 cross-posted to: 2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1577arrow-down1imageThose moutains are so quaintmedia.piefed.worldnegativenull@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 天前message-square309linkfedilink cross-posted to: 2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·21 天前The thing about mountains is that they’re all big when you’re at the bottom of them
minus-squareAdolfSchmitler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·21 天前Mountains get so big because they have no natural predators. Ken M.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·21 天前A decent number of the Appalachians have roads that go near the top.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 天前So does Pikes Peak in Colorado, all the way up 14,000 feet.
minus-squareSpeltrong@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 天前That just means they have better engineers and braver drivers, or the mountains are older and they had more time
minus-squareSchadrachlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·21 天前 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.
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.
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
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.