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re: Map of the lower 48 by elevation
Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:40 pm to upgrade
Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:40 pm to upgrade
Most early settlers in the West took circuitous routs around the Rockies, mostly through Arizona(often parts of Mexico), occasionally through Southern Idaho into Washington and Oregon, more rarely via the Salt Lake Valley. Don’t let the map fool you, there are plenty of flat spaces and valleys amongst those jumbled ridges.
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Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:41 pm to OBReb6
I’m sure California is beautiful, BUT just think how nice it would be without 5 straight years of wildfires sprawling every where?????? The state is on the coast of the largest ocean in the world and has drought and fire problems?????? I realize to an extent we can blame Mother Nature for this but come on.....
Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:44 pm to upgrade
The Appalachians also were covered with dense forest and the paths through were Indian or Buffalo caused. With no horses, the Indian trails were one man wide, and some went up slopes that were foot friendly, but not horse, mule or oxen friendly. The National Park at Harrogate TN/Middlesboro KY is the gap used by. most of the settlers bound for Nashville.
Out west you could see where the rivers were on the Great Plains-that's where the water was. The passes through Wyoming were flat part of the way, and going south after the canyons had be avoided in west Texas, you had flat and dry in NM and AZ. Dry versus mud. Hard decisions to make.
Out west you could see where the rivers were on the Great Plains-that's where the water was. The passes through Wyoming were flat part of the way, and going south after the canyons had be avoided in west Texas, you had flat and dry in NM and AZ. Dry versus mud. Hard decisions to make.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:46 pm to dukke v
Wildfires are natural and needed and have been occurring for thousands of years. Just don’t go to a place that’s on fire
Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:54 pm to Sao
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I know this place hates Cali but Lord the Sierra Nevadas and that vicinity is incredible. Has everything within a drive imaginable.
Must be why they say California is wasted on Californians
Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:56 pm to tgrbaitn08
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I was shocked to see how flat and swampy minnesota is.
I was shocked to see how flat and windy south Texas was when I lived there for a year for work.
I grew up 20 mins from My Cheaha which is the highest point in AL at just over 2400 ft.
I was even more shocked when I went to Big Sky skiing the first time. It's 3 times as high as where I grew up. I can't imagine some of those peaks in the southern rockies that are 14,000+. That's simply crazy to me.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:06 pm to Tigris
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:08 pm to MorbidTheClown
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La. is flatter than taylor swift.
And people are confused and angry when flash flooding floods their yard south of I-10.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:18 pm to Sao
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I know this place hates Cali but Lord the Sierra Nevadas and that vicinity is incredible. Has everything within a drive imaginable.
Ironically enough I am from California and have lived and still have family in the Southern Sierra Nevadas. More specifically in Squirrel Valley close to Lake Isabella. I moved to East TN a long time ago and have bounced back and forth between the two for a long time. Completely different mountain ranges and environments, but both beautiful in their own ways.
This is a photo from my family's property in the Sierras that I took last summer from the back porch with Lake Isabella in the background
This post was edited on 5/5/21 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:23 pm to TRUERockyTop
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:45 pm to TRUERockyTop
I want to see elevational equity. Now!
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:50 pm to GEAUXT
What parts of Tallahassee are hilly?
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:56 pm to carhartt
quote:My people kept going until they hit the coast. It blows my mind to think about the first few years of settlers when I drive through these mountain passes or hike the mountains out here. My Great (times several) grandmother pulled a handcart over that shite. With a young child. It would be unbelievable to me if so many hadn't have done it.
You can definitely see why the wagon train stopped and decided to setup camp near Denver.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 2:49 pm to TRUERockyTop
Map is crap! Can’t even see Monkey Hill in New Orleans
Posted on 5/5/21 at 2:54 pm to TRUERockyTop
I drove through Albuquerque going west, and seemed like I was going downhill for 7 straight miles.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 3:56 pm to TRUERockyTop
Damn, the Ozarks look like a little speed bump in comparison to the Rockies and Appalachian Mountains.
I had no idea Maine through New York and New Hampshire were so mountainous.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 5:33 pm to TRUERockyTop
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forget how mountainous parts of New York, New Hampshire and Maine are by East of the MS standards.
The vast majority of upstate NY is mountains. And its gorgeous!
Posted on 5/5/21 at 5:43 pm to RazorBroncs
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I had no idea Maine through New York and New Hampshire were so mountainous.
It’s beautiful country up there
Posted on 5/5/21 at 5:46 pm to TRUERockyTop
That graphic really demonstrates the majesty and wonder of the Ozarks.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 5:59 pm to upgrade
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I saw a show on the history channel a few years ago that said people going west in wagons in the pioneer days had a harder time crossing the Appalachians than they did the Rockies. They claimed that the Appalachians were steeper even though obviously not as high.
People confuse mountain height with vertical rise.
Mountain height is from sea level. Those mountains in the rockies aren't rising 13,000 feet from the land around it. They're rising 6-7,000 feet because the land elevation is already 6,000 feet or so.
The higher Appalachian mountains have a pretty substantial rise. They're just starting from a much lower position.
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