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I will concede for purposes of semantic peace that the eastern Appalachians are in fact but hills, but I still claim they are far superior to the barren, rocky, lifeless coniferous slopes of the west.
There's nothing quite like the moist, densely-packed verdant environment that much of the Appalachians can offer - especially on the good side of the rain shadow.
The West is, in general, a harsher dryer climate that produces less useful and beautiful land. Sure, you can see further because trees don't grow in arid conditions as well, but the rest of it is objectively worse.
