OTOH, much of the lack of vegetation has to do with height

Jun 11, 2021
11:17:39pm

CougarVeteran Future Former User

The height, the steep incline on the mountains, the "tree line," and even the mountains themselves have a fair amount to do with the lack of "vegetation."

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Most Utah mountains aren't that much taller than much of the Appalachians.

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:02pm

RE: Most Utah mountains aren't that much taller than much of the Appalachians.

Zedhead

6/11/21 3:04pm

I charge $2

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:04pm

Also, this should be common knowledge to anyone who read Centennial by Michner

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:09pm

Also, if you're a cross-country cyclist.

squidmark

6/11/21 3:13pm

What was that? I couldn't hear you standing on your little hill while I am up

RH84025

6/11/21 3:08pm

Rocky Mountains are much more steep than the Appalachians. You talk about prominence but not

CSoul

6/11/21 3:11pm

Go deer hunting at the top of the Wellsvilles and you will feel it.

CSoul

6/11/21 3:13pm

Valid point. The eastern mountains are older and more weathered

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:13pm

They think the Appalachians are 4 times older than the Rocky Mountains.

CSoul

6/11/21 3:13pm

They think?

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:15pm

"Geologists believe." That better? Being pedantic on message boards is fun!

CSoul

6/11/21 3:17pm

You know you can just state it as fact, right?

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:17pm

Well, sure, but if he said "you are pedantic", that would be a personal attack.

jdub

6/11/21 3:20pm

Touche, lol

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:22pm

Well my mountain can beat up your mountain.

Superman21

6/11/21 3:22pm

Is there any photo like this in the Appalachians?

777

6/11/21 3:14pm

No, because the eastern mountains are not in a desert and are lower elevations

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 3:21pm

Why does the skiing suck back East (generally speaking)?

Carnac

6/11/21 3:24pm

So their smaller mountains?

Superman21

6/11/21 3:24pm

I used to drive a shuttle from the airport and anyone that had never been to SLC

777

6/11/21 3:26pm

What does vegetation have to do with your argument of size?

stoils

6/11/21 3:49pm

RE: What does vegetation have to do with your argument of size?

Breaded Hamster

6/11/21 3:59pm

Cutting back the vegetation can give the illusion of more prominence

Mike Honcho

6/11/21 6:22pm

OTOH, much of the lack of vegetation has to do with height

CougarVeteran

6/11/21 11:17pm

Fair point but 1) I don’t want humidity 2) I want skiing 3) app state > Michigan

runitup590

6/11/21 3:15pm

There are not as much but still ski slopes in the Appalachains.

FieroCoug

6/11/21 3:53pm

The height of nearby mountains often meddles with other large mountains having higher prominence. For example,

Probable Sacko

6/11/21 3:15pm

High elevation is part of the draw to me when I think of mountains. I like

SUAVO

6/11/21 3:16pm

You don't like palm trees at the peak either?

Carnac

6/11/21 3:27pm

Only in my drink

SUAVO

6/11/21 8:18pm

Find me a mountain as dramatic as Timp in all of Appalachia. I'll wait

Hotlanta

6/11/21 3:17pm

Dramatic? That's a new metric for mountains I've never heard of...

whirl

6/11/21 3:21pm

Piton des nieges. It sits at the center of reunion island. 0 ft to over 10,000ft

MrClark

6/12/21 12:00pm

Not in Appalachia...

Hotlanta

6/12/21 12:22pm

Okay Boomer

I'mYourHuckleberry

6/11/21 3:23pm

Spent some summer p-days hiking in the Presidential Range of northern NH. Some great mountains to climb.

SierraCoug

6/11/21 3:25pm

I am not sure how prominence is measured but I basically live at the base of

Charles Darwin

6/11/21 3:27pm

It is because Timp is surrounded by other very tall mountains.

Carnac

6/11/21 3:28pm

If you really want to talk about prominence of US ranges, California probably has the biggest ones

SingleStrapBackpack

6/11/21 3:32pm

The Cougarboarder Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain

zonacougar

6/11/21 3:48pm

Your definition of prominence is not correct. It has nothing to do with base to

chrisrenrut

6/11/21 3:55pm

I didn't realize that. I learned something new on CB today. Thanks Mizzou!

Hoosier77

6/11/21 3:55pm

Yeah, to the near meat 10 miles both round to zero

TomPetty

6/11/21 3:56pm

I went to the great Smokey's last month. Utahs mountains are significantly

LiveCoug

6/11/21 4:37pm

That said, the Smokey's are beautiful for sure

LiveCoug

6/11/21 4:40pm

Utah is very much a desert. Other parts of the country are more green for sure.

TomPetty

6/11/21 4:43pm

No clue what that has to do with my post, but obviously the east is more green

LiveCoug

6/11/21 4:59pm

I think the impressive part of the smokeys is the extent of forest

TomPetty

6/11/21 5:03pm

Yes, but the amount of vegetation also makes them more hill like.

LiveCoug

6/11/21 5:04pm

Canadian Rockies are even more impressive. Majestic like Utah w/ lots more green

WDaddy

6/11/21 8:52pm

Even the Tetons are like that

SingleStrapBackpack

6/11/21 10:48pm

You Utah guys need to spend some time in Colorado. Let's talk fourteeners!

Hoosier77

6/11/21 4:41pm

Appalachians. Mounds of dirt covered with gross deciduous trees

Backcountry

6/11/21 4:50pm

Board name ain't "Backeastcountry"

TomPetty

6/11/21 4:54pm

RE: Board name ain't "Backeastcountry"

Backcountry

6/11/21 4:55pm

Yahtzee!

BYUMizzou

6/11/21 10:39pm

Utah has 12 Mts. with 4500+' of "Prominence", the Eastern U.S. has only 4

slatecoug

6/11/21 11:25pm

What you miss is that one of those two is in NH, the other in NC

CougarVeteran

6/11/21 11:08pm

Utah has 12 Mts. with 4500+' of "Prominence", the Eastern U.S. has only 4

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