negativenull@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThose moutains are so quaintmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square309linkfedilinkarrow-up1623arrow-down136
arrow-up1587arrow-down1imageThose moutains are so quaintmedia.piefed.worldnegativenull@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square309linkfedilink
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 months agoThe thing about mountains is that they’re all big when you’re at the bottom of them
minus-squareAdolfSchmitler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down1·2 months agoMountains get so big because they have no natural predators. Ken M.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoA decent number of the Appalachians have roads that go near the top.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoSo does Pikes Peak in Colorado, all the way up 14,000 feet.
minus-squareSpeltrong@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThat just means they have better engineers and braver drivers, or the mountains are older and they had more time
minus-squareSchadrach@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months ago 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.