>>2324869>you can really feel the geological age of the mountains, you know you're participating with something that is unimaginably ancient.I get that. I've been in the Apps and you do get a sense of their age...that you are in an old mt range. Its quaint.
>unimaginably ancient.Indeed...and yet when you are out West you are walking some of the oldest rocks in the World. Precambrian 3-4 billion year old rocks exposed on the surface in places. Literally billions of years of geologic processes on display for you...so yea unimagineably ancient. Indeed the landscape in the West is one giant reminder of how old the earth is and how young and fleeting humans are.