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The reason the appalachians are full of backwoods people is because they settled here from europe100s and 100s of years ago before anyone (except for native american) knew there was a rocky mountains, anyway you colorado people would not understand, its an eastern thing , you have to understand the appalchians were the way the are now when mount elbert was merely a pebble , when the appalachians were standing at some 20,000ft there were no rocky mountains
Saying that i now live in a "mountain state" (new mexico) and grew up in north carolina part of my heart is still in the great smokies , it was on a tourbus in spain with a women from colorado we were talking about skiing then i said "north carolina has some big slopes" then she paused and looked at me like i was some baboon and said "oh really well im pretty sure we can beat you" nothing hurtful...........just cocky. I have heard that some people dont even know that there aaremountains in nm. Ps north carolina has the highest elevation east of the rockies not tn
Actually, Harney Peak in South Dakota is higher than Mount Mitchell.
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The Smokies certainly don't offer the kind of skiing the Rockies do...nor are the winters nearly as . brutal. The summers on the other hand, are very hot and humid, whereas in the Rockies, humidity ihe s dry. You are closer to more major cities in the Smokies though. Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Charlotte, etc. Not nearly as much poverty and rednecks in the Rockies as in the Smokies.
People, most of the Smokies are in NORTH CAROLINA, not Tennessee. I'd say that North Carolina has about 65% of the Smokies, while Tennessee has about 35%.
Just because Dolly Parton popularized the Smokies and Tennessee in the minds of Americans through her Dollywood commercials doesn't mean that most of the Smokies are in Tennessee. By the way, Pigeon Forge, TN is not in the Smokies. You have to drive about 10 miles east to Gatlinburg before you truly start to get into the Smokies.
even if the rockies dwarf the apps the andes dwarf the rockies, ive climbed them
Start an Andes vs. the Rockies thread then.
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The nicest people you will ever meet are in eastern tenessee/western north carolina
I met lots of nice people in Western North Carolina/the Great Smokies...but then there were also the self-entitled redneck neighbors who would constantly hunt dear illegally on my friend's property, who the local game wardens recommended NOT going straight to to work the problem out, as they might get a little...shall we say, "vindictive". Those people were not very nice. The game wardens were really nice though! The Appalachians have their ups, but they sure have their downs as well (poverty, and to someone from the west, the humidity can be a ***** as well).
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