Going back rural.... Can't wait, where to look?

[buckeyefarmer]

The peaks in the Black Hills of SD are taller than anything in the Appalachian 'mountains '.

The Rockies' peaks are double that.

You can keep your cute eastern hills. Heck, even in Texas we have a peak higher than those.

Are the hills higher, or just a higher elevation?

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Don't come to Oklahoma. We have 110 degree Summers; tornados, rednecks, indigenous people who will scalp you, outlaws who will hold up your stagecoach, rattle snakes and lots of horse and cow poop...and you can't see any of it because of the waving wheat! We do have an AM station where you can listen to Glen Beck and Shawn Hannity though...

Jeepers... You just scared me straight. Thanks!

 

[hugo454]

Florida sucks too!

 

[Torvy]

Are the hills higher, or just a higher elevation?

Well, by definition, the hills are higher because the peaks are at a higher elevation. All the relief nonsense is just about the fact that the base of the Appalachian hills are narrower. The Appalachians seem like a longer range until you realize that the Black Hills are considered by geologists to be part of the Rockies range. The biggest claim the Appalachians can make is that they are older.

The people who named the Appalachians had not seen actual mountains yet, so they didn't know any better, bless their hearts. By the time white folks saw the Black Hills they had already seen the Rockies, so in comparison, they seemed like hills. East coast bias has been here since the Pilgrims landed.

 

[MoKelly]

Well, by definition, the hills are higher because the peaks are at a higher elevation. All the relief nonsense is just about the fact that the base of the Appalachian hills are narrower. The Appalachians seem like a longer range until you realize that the Black Hills are considered by geologists to be part of the Rockies range. The biggest claim the Appalachians can make is that they are older.

The people who named the Appalachians had not seen actual mountains yet, so they didn't know any better, bless their hearts. By the time white folks saw the Black Hills they had already seen the Rockies, so in comparison, they seemed like hills. East coast bias has been here since the Pilgrims landed.

Yep. There really is no comparison if you’ve seen them both.

It’s kind of like the western and eastern continental divides. No comparisons.

MoKelly

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Good try.

But, you are going to the SEC where football - as they say - just means more!

MoKelly

Should be good for all of us...???

 

[MoKelly]

Should be good for all of us...???

Well - if Missouri ends up in the same division/quad/whatever with OK and TX, it may not be exactly good for us. Plus, we lose a rather meaningful recruiting advantage.

But the $$$ distribution will create unbelievable facilities.

MoKelly

 

[Frankenkubota]

We in idaho are sick and tired of a good majority of California imports bringing their ideas of how to live with them. They leave California because of their dumb laws, then try to have those same rules instituted here.

again...lone of my favorite bumper stickers....can be modified to fit other regions

WE DONT CARE HOW YOU DID IT IN NEW YORK

 

[Frankenkubota]

Too few people seem to know that.

term limits!

 

[deezler]

Well, by definition, the hills are higher because the peaks are at a higher elevation. All the relief nonsense is just about the fact that the base of the Appalachian hills are narrower. The Appalachians seem like a longer range until you realize that the Black Hills are considered by geologists to be part of the Rockies range. The biggest claim the Appalachians can make is that they are older.

The people who named the Appalachians had not seen actual mountains yet, so they didn't know any better, bless their hearts. By the time white folks saw the Black Hills they had already seen the Rockies, so in comparison, they seemed like hills. East coast bias has been here since the Pilgrims landed.

Not to harp on this, but from a pure geographical basis, you simply aren't correct.

There is only a single mountain in Colorado with more elevation gain (prominence) than Mt Washington in New Hampshire. Starting from a lower elevation just means that the New England Appalachian range gets to have nice pretty tree cover almost up to the top. Rocky mountains being barren rock slabs up top doesn't make them actually taller.

The truly impressive mountains are the Volcanic ones on the far west coast, rising many thousands of feet above the surrounding terrain. Mt Hood, Mt Rainer, Mt Adams, etc. Whitney and Shasta in California.

USA Lower 48 Top 100 Peaks by Prominence - Peakbagger.com

www.peakbagger.com