What is with that weird elevation map, though? The Sierras are 4 miles above sea level, not 300 miles.
“Older than bones” is gonna be rattling around in my brain for the next couple of decades
I love Vermont.
Once mightier than the Rockies
Reinforces how I was taught about the Sierra Nevadas. They are really just a jagged shard sticking into the sky from plates colliding. Like shrapnel from a car collision.
West Virginia is one of my favorite states because it’s nothing but old mountain.
I cried when I went to Scotland. Here were the mountains so close to the Adirondacks that I love, only devoid of trees. A desolate beauty. I wanted to walk around spreading seeds.
I've seen this one! It sent me down a rabbit hole, staying up one night reading charts of how much taller the tallest Himalaya is than the tallest Alp is than the tallest Rocky etc. Changed how I see the whole world.
The Appalachians are real mountains. The Poconos are not.