Comment on Those moutains are so quaint

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mountains get so big because they have no natural predators.

  • Ken M.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A decent number of the Appalachians have roads that go near the top.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So does Pikes Peak in Colorado, all the way up 14,000 feet.

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  • Speltrong@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That just means they have better engineers and braver drivers, or the mountains are older and they had more time

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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