Sorry if I've just insulted your favorite /out/ location but a few months ago I made a thread with mountains captioned as Appalachian locations and nobody could tell something is wrong, even though one of the pics was from Czechia, others were from Poland and none was actually from Appalachia. To make things even worse, I had to stop myself from using the highest parts of Carpathians cause they just look too stunning to be Appalachia. Basically Appalachia looks like one of these mountain locations I visit because they're cheaper than ones with more dramatic landscape and if I wanted to go on holyday by plane, I certainly wouldn't choose Georgia (Appalachia) over Yosemite or Georgia (Caucasus).But maybe I'm wrong and someone who actually visited Appalachia can tell me why are they truly special?
>>2867132They aren't. The people who think they are great have just never been anywhere else.
>>2867134Eh, I haven't spent a lot of time outside the eastern US, but I have visited the western US and Europe, and Austria was very pretty, don't get me wrong, and Oregon had some nice parts, but Appalachia has nice canyons and rivers and you can get above them looking down. I had a nice hike last week where you sort of meander around a mini-gorge (you can take steps to the bottom if you wish but the waterfall was mostly dry), and eventually get to an overlook of the main river it flows into. The trail was in crappy shape (overgrown/narrow) but it was still a nice experience. I assume trails are probably in better shape in Europe and western America.
>>2867134Tbh I see a lot of that on this board. They've never gone anywhere so they think that the Appalachians are the only /out/ place in existence. It's kind of sad but that's their life I guess. Personally my top states are Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana.
>>286713299.9% of /out/ has been outside less than 10 times this year so take a wild guess at how many went outside AND abroad
I agree there are plenty of nicer places in the world in terms of grand views and pure mountains. But I'll never not love Appalachia. Such variety of habitat even if it's shades of the same greater ecosystem you can feel the differences as you go north southThere isn't that much temperate deciduous forest in the world let alone much where you can still (while difficult) find true old growth trees. Would have loved to see her in her prime though before the chestnut blight and fauna removal
>>2867175there's a decent amount of old growth left, but, much of it is on private land, OR, is hard to access, if they left the trees, it's probably because they were difficult to get to so it will be difficult for you to get to those trees toobut you do get a neat effect where if you have a 200-300 ft deep gorge you can have old growth trees growing out of the bottom and reaching the upper rim of the gorge which looks pretty neat irl
