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I grew up hiking in Louisiana, then lived in South Carolina for 3 years before settling in Portland 8 years ago. The east coast forests are more interesting than desolate gray mountains in the west.
But what if I told you that there are forest covered mountains on the West Coast? In fact they’re pretty much everywhere. You think it’s all gray rocks because you’ve never actually been, and that’s what they show in pictures and YouRube vids. They show it because you can’t get that in other parts of the country. My brother in law is constantly posting pics of his swamp kayaking trips, but I know for a fact there’s more than just swamps in Louisiana (not much though lol). But where else can you go kayaking in a swamp besides near the gulf coast?
Best thing about the west coast is the landscape diversity, not the 14ers. But you can’t take a picture of the fact that I’m 3 or 4 hours from a snow capped mounting, tons of mountain forests (technically I’m sitting in one right now), grass plains, a volcano, a desert, and a rain forest. Meanwhile my apartment in South Carolina was hours away from... more forests. Beautiful forests, sure, but one forest in SC isn’t much different from the rest.
