Man in a few million years that tweet is gonna look hella dumb
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The Appalachians have been mountains longer than North America has been a continent
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Its not the height, it's the age. Thar be eldritch monsters in the Appalachians. Rockies is just aliens and (Gay) Bigfoot
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Western trails: Ascend on nicely-graded switchbacks.
Eastern trails: Ascend straight up a seasonal creek bed.
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I love my Cascades and the Rockies are majestic and impressive, but the Appalachians are basically the wizened old crones of mountains. They're weird and mysterious. They're full of forests and traditions and stories. They demand respect.
Also, listen, folks from the eastern Midwest are barely used to hills then having to drive through them is scary.
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Thats cute.
Look at the danish mountains and despair!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelbjerget
Sky Mountain! a whopping peak height of 140m elevation. A hike so deadly that it is a time honored tradition to let our kindergarten aged children 'climb' it. Takes an afternoon (barely) and theres a small giftshop selling icecream and knick knacks on top of it.
Try and best that yanks! 😎
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They're both gorgeous. Why do we have to pit two queens against one another?
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The thing about mountains is that they're all big when you're at the bottom of them
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whatever you do, just don't live down there 
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if "my mountains can beat up your mountains" is some element of the conversation, i'm not talking at all, i'm walking the other direction
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Sometimes it's not the moutains that get you, it's the smaller hills and valleys surrounding them because there are actually people and roads there.
Sometimes if you make a wrong turn in Pittsburgh, you are not just going the wrong direction but are also at the wrong elevation or on the wrong layer, and there's no looping around the block to get back to where you started.
Disclaimer: This thread led me to read the Wikipedia article about Appalachia. Some definitions of the region do not include Pittsburgh or even parts of Pennsylvania, but at the same time there's a photo of downtown Pittsburgh at the top of the article, so I went with it.
The geographical feature that you have no control over is for losers.
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Ours are older and were taller.
The highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth until 1996 was on Mt. Washington, NH. That's gotta count for some cool points.
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The Nepalese: Oh you Americans are so cute.
Can we get a map of mountain deaths? Mt Washington would run up the scoreboard.
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The Sierra Nevadas are no joke. If you drive through them in wintertime you are absolutely taking a risk, not only because you're driving on windy (if well-maintained) mountain highways, but you may get stuck in snow despite your chains and will freeze to death.
If you are lucky, a CHP or forest ranger may see you and help you out.
Heaven forbid you have engine trouble or run out of fuel.
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I've lived in several places, all FLAT. Whenever I visit a mountainous place like Denver, it always seems so weird that there are these mountains always looming over me. At least you always know which way is west.
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