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Thoughts?

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 15:40:11 No.2524435 View View Reply Original Report

Please Note:
I know CT has the Quiet Corner.
I know DE has some fun marshlands.
I know NE, KS, and IA have more than cornfields

But I am ranking states relative to one another.

Oh, and the reason CA and CO are not higher because of all the very annoying people over-crowding the parks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 15:48:21 No.2524438 Report

Quoted By: >>2529396

>WV not a 10
this map is broken, anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 16:41:41 No.2524456 Report

Quoted By: >>2524471 >>2524573

>>2524435
OR/WA/ID should all be about the same, 9 is about right. so close
MI,WI,MN should all be higher as well

MO, what the fuck man? :) the ozarks are cute and totally valid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 17:15:42 No.2524471 Report

Quoted By: >>2524474

>>2524456
It's weird how he overrates Arkansas and underrates Missouri because those states are very similar. Take 2 points from Arkansas and give them to Missouri for more accurate ratings for both states.

Rating Nebraska a 1 has become its own meme at this point. If this perception keeps Californians and Chicagoans out I'm all for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 17:26:11 No.2524474 Report

Quoted By: >>2524529 >>2531978

>>2524471
and then texas as a 7.5?
i don't even know. i'm guessing he's from TX? but everything i've heard is that there's like 20 acres of public land there, the rest is owned by ranchers or the chinese.

so glad to live in OR.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 17:26:38 No.2524475 Report

Quoted By: >>2524476 >>2524579 >>2524902 >>2526316

Why do westoids hate the Appalachian mountains so much?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 17:28:42 No.2524476 Report

Quoted By: >>2524478 >>2526340

>>2524475
It's a good thing anon, trust me.
do you really want smarmy trash from CA infesting your comfy hollers and shitting things up with progressive, garbage politics?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 17:31:13 No.2524478 Report

Quoted By: >>2524527

>>2524476
Ah, you're right. Hahaha... y-yeah, it sucks out here! Deliverance is a documentary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 19:00:32 No.2524511 Report

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>>2524435
Fuck off with your gay ass 9.5 shit. I don't need more faggots coming here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 19:21:48 No.2524517 Report

Quoted By:

>>2524435
>Hawaii 6.5
Can’t swim anon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 19:38:58 No.2524521 Report

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>>2524435
Ayyy lived in 5 states long term, each of them 9 or above. Spend hours and hours outside. Life is truly good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 19:43:46 No.2524523 Report

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>>2524435
>because of all the very annoying people over-crowding the parks
exactly what the res of us in our states don't want, quit making these fuckin maps ugh

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 19:48:53 No.2524527 Report

Quoted By: >>2529900

>>2524478
This but unironically.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 19:49:45 No.2524529 Report

Quoted By: >>2524562 >>2524570 >>2524645 >>2526342 >>2528625 >>2529392

>>2524435
Finally a map that doesn’t underrate Texas. I believe New Mexico is a little low though.

>>2524474
Good, stay in your crowded and foggy shit weather containment zone coastie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 20:23:00 No.2524540 Report

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>>2524435
>Louisiana
>7
It's good for hunting in the colder months and there's good fishing, but it's hot, muggy, and mosquito infested 9 months out of the year. Not to mention the entire landscape is basically flat and swampy/marshy

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 20:28:03 No.2524544 Report

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>>2524435
NY is a 1, the Adirondacks are overly full. This is not even a joke, stop coming here.

sage

sage Fri 13 Jan 2023 20:29:48 No.2524545 Report

Quoted By: >>2524899

>>2524435
>IA 1
yeah, stay the fuck out, we don't want any coast faggots here

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 20:55:45 No.2524562 Report

Quoted By: >>2524570 >>2524665

>>2524529
>doesn’t understate texas
Texas should be understated. It’s the biggest state outside Alaska and there isn’t shit to do outside Big Bend. The coast is all tourist garbage, the cities are shit outside maybe San Antonio. Hill Country has some cool areas but again it’s the biggest state in the lower 48

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 20:58:42 No.2524564 Report

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>>2524435
>TX and LA rated higher than MI, WI, and MN
into the trash

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 21:16:33 No.2524570 Report

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>>2524529
>>2524562
Texas is fun as fuck if you do free walks in the desert

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 21:19:48 No.2524573 Report

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>>2524456
WA is brought down because the east side is boring and the west side /out/ shit is too close to the big cities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 21:24:01 No.2524579 Report

Quoted By: >>2524656

>>2524475
Your tallest mountain is base elevation in Colorado. If it doesn't have snow on it year round it's just a big hill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 23:03:22 No.2524622 Report

Quoted By: >>2524641

>>2524435
Trash map. Interesting attempt at objectivity, but rating Texas higher than Virginia or West Virginia (or really any state that forms a portion of Southern Appalachia) is patently ridiculous.

Texas' big problem, well known on /out/, is that rich, fat old cowboy LARPers or corporations own almost all of the land. There's significantly less publicly accessible land in Texas in absolute terms than exists in much smaller states. This torpedos it's score, which wouldn't even be 10 to begin with even if all the land weren't owned by Yosemite Sam Inc.

Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee have their problems, and Virginia has some of the biggest (NOVA is home to DC scum and their hangers-on; the entire Virginia coast is commercialized/militarized trash; etc), but West Coasters ignoring Appalachia and its beauty and biodiversity over much sandy/big rocks means that your opinions are discarded every time.

That being said, it sucks here and I recommend avoiding it. Try Montana, I hear it's one of the best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 23:40:07 No.2524641 Report

Quoted By: >>2524670

>>2524622
Pretty sure the amount of public land in Texas is actually higher in square miles than most of the Eastern states besides Maine. It just looks bad as % of total land. Also you cannot get nearly as remote in Virginia, WV, or Tennessee. You can get so remote in Texas that the closest human / settlement is 4+ hours away. The mountains in Texas are also higher and have more interesting terrain.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Jan 2023 23:46:34 No.2524645 Report

Quoted By: >>2524663

>>2524529
awww, don't be mad texas bro. we have a common enemy here, CA.

besides, not all of OR is the cloudy/foggy bullshit 8 months of the year that you're assuming. like pic related, oregon outback. the population density in eastern OR is probably on par with west texas to be honest (climate isn't too far off either)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 00:20:22 No.2524652 Report

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>>2524435
100% of Nebraska is nicer than 75% of Wyoming

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 00:38:12 No.2524656 Report

Quoted By: >>2529399

>>2524579
Who the fuck cares about tall desert rock? There's literally nothing to do there but walk, what's the point? I like hunting and fishing instead of jerking off to elevation numbers.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 00:51:54 No.2524663 Report

Quoted By: >>2524666

>>2524645
Just shit talking back Eastern OR looks nice. I vastly prefer West TX to Western OR though. I like finding ruins in the desert of old churches petroglyphs etc. whereas everything gets eaten away in the moist places.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 00:55:39 No.2524665 Report

Quoted By: >>2531881

>>2524562
If you think Big Bend is the only thing then you simply haven’t done any research. The great thing about Texas is that it’s empty because tourists get filtered so easily.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 00:57:00 No.2524666 Report

Quoted By: >>2524868

>>2524663
yeah i hear ya. i grew up in eastern OR, but wound up settling down in western OR after college.

as bad as the rain is, the people are far worse (we're about 30 miles from eugene). driving into town is just a brutal reminder of how badly progressives ruin everything they touch.
>hobos everywhere
>crazy schizos walking down sidewalk wearing nothing but their underwear and blankets screaming at cars
>trash/grafitti/littering
>shantytown tent cities in every public area

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 01:00:02 No.2524670 Report

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>>2524641
Elevation is good, and so is remoteness, but some of you value those things far too highly while ignoring factors such as biodiversity, foraging potential, and even the denseness of remote fishable waters (the latter is sky-high in GW/Jeff. Nat'l Forest).

For my druthers, there are steep (heh) diminishing returns on both elevation and remoteness, though they do continue to have value as they increase. For some of you, they gain exponentially more value with each additional 100 ft. of elevation/minute decrease in population density.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 04:39:49 No.2524759 Report

Quoted By: >>2524766

>>2524435
So you mark CA and CO down for having a ton of annoying leftists, and dislike of them is understandable, but did you also mark down Appalachian states for all the meth heads?
If you’re gonna take the state’s residents into account when making an /out/ map, you should at least be consistent and do that for all of them

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 04:55:07 No.2524766 Report

Quoted By: >>2524777

>>2524759
>but did you also mark down Appalachian states for all the meth heads?
No need, as OP wasn't referring to all residents taken as a whole, only those who frequent /out/ areas. They beshit cities, towns, and rural sprawl, and local fishing holes to a certain extent, but they by and large stay out of National and State Parks, National Forests, trailheads, the trails themselves, and certainly off-trail/in the backcountry.

It's fairly obvious you've never been to Appalachia. In your simplistic view, there's a homogeneous coating of rednecks and drug addicts evenly coating the entire region. In reality, the worst thing you'll find in Appalachian /out/ areas are obnoxious bear hunters who drive their trucks around access roads like assholes all season with their dogs crated in the bed or running loose, but you'll only find them near roads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 05:33:57 No.2524777 Report

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>>2524766
Nah I’m taking off 1.5 points off all of them for being chock full of toothless people in the rural areas and hills

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 08:17:59 No.2524814 Report

Quoted By: >>2524818 >>2524854

>>2524435
Believe it or not this is inside DC

I live nearby and I fucking hate DC but I like to explore the more hidden parts of it, the city is majority nigger now but luckily "10 foot of woods keeps out the hood"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 08:39:03 No.2524818 Report

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>>2524814
now all you have to do is teleport to june and out of this sub-freezing windy cold front...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 08:48:53 No.2524822 Report

Quoted By: >>2524852

>>2524435
WA is the best state in the lower 48

>Dense rainforest
>Extremely rugged glacier covered mountains
>Massive volcanoes
>Open desert in the east

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 11:38:37 No.2524852 Report

Quoted By: >>2524898

>>2524822
I visited WA for the first time last year (from Idaho), literally the most beautiful place I had ever seen. Maybe Montana has got it beat by a hair.
The population centers and people made it absolutely fucking unbearable though, even rural. I thought califags were the worst drivers but holy shit WA drivers must be doing a bump of coke and meth all at once every 5 god damn seconds while on the road.

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Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 11:49:34 No.2524854 Report

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>>2524814
Watch your back out there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 12:55:30 No.2524868 Report

Quoted By: >>2524898

>>2524666
Lived in eugene for a few years to fight forest fires

I moved back to Kentucky, I just couldn't handle those people. You can't trust anybody out west. I don't know how people live with such a derelict social contract.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 14:55:28 No.2524898 Report

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>>2524852
I’m from California. Suburban central. Washington drivers are the fucking worst. Whenever we’re in Oregon, and someone is driving like a nigger, it’s always wish Washington plates.

>>2524868
I’ve only ever lived out here. How do you mean?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 14:56:49 No.2524899 Report

Quoted By: >>2529886

>>2524545
IA is legit a 1 tho.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Jan 2023 15:07:42 No.2524902 Report

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>>2524475
appalachia is 4 times smaller and over 4 times more densely populated than just the mountain states, and it comes with the caveat that it is full of delusional retards and universally industrially polluted water ways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jan 2023 06:45:31 No.2526316 Report

Quoted By: >>2526339

>>2524475
I hiked the entire Appalachian Trail.
Didn't see a single mountain the entire time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jan 2023 07:00:49 No.2526321 Report

Quoted By:

Any Vegas anons here? Whats the cost of living like out there?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jan 2023 09:37:29 No.2526339 Report

Quoted By:

>>2526316
2 lies for the price of one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jan 2023 09:49:34 No.2526340 Report

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>>2524476
there's nothing comfy about a bunch of drunk appalachia mutant methbillies trying to rape you....nobody wants to see that shithole

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Jan 2023 09:54:42 No.2526342 Report

Quoted By: >>2529882

>>2524529
lol texass..their main source of air is inhaling cow shit fumes...no one even thinks about texas but California lives rent free in your head 24/7...californians don't even think about California as much as texans do...its like the cringe fat kid who can't stop thinking of the popular dude dating his crush what a nightmare existence texans must have

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2023 04:38:49 No.2528625 Report

Quoted By: >>2529302

>>2524529
That New Mexico rating is criminally low

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2023 04:51:54 No.2528630 Report

Quoted By: >>2529882

>>2524435
Texas is a solid 4 at best. 3.5 because it’s too hot to be outside

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2023 05:12:13 No.2528631 Report

Quoted By:

>Utah 9.5
>NV 6
>AZ 8
They all should be just about the same ranking. 8.5 for Utah, 8's for NV and AZ. All 3 have absolute gem destinations for different outdoor activities, some considered "meccas" in their respective hobbies, and all 3 have the same diversity of environment.

CA shouldn't be an 8.5, easily a 9. Western America in general is just too fucking good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 05:47:36 No.2529252 Report

Quoted By: >>2529311 >>2529398 >>2529846

>>2524435
A retard clearly made this, NH and VT lower than Louisiana? Wisconsin less than Minnesota?

Also the Quiet Corner isn't even the best /out/ in CT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 10:47:05 No.2529302 Report

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>>2528625
A good part of New Mexico is boring plains which hurts its overall rating

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 12:00:05 No.2529311 Report

Quoted By: >>2531289

>>2529252
What are some good spots in CT?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 16:11:20 No.2529392 Report

Quoted By: >>2529615 >>2529882

>>2524529
>Oregon bad!
Go back to /pol/

Texas ranks 24th in population density with 112 people per square mile. Oregon is 39th, with 44.1 people per square mile.

About a third of Oregon is desert, as it’s in the shadow of the Cascades. The “foggy weather” (I think you meant rainy) is only in the eastern part of the state. But really there’s no comparison; Texas is shit for outdoor recreation and the weather is garbage anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 16:30:33 No.2529396 Report

Quoted By: >>2529668

>>2524438
too many meth-addled hillbillys who have never left the holler and think its "wilderness"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 16:31:34 No.2529398 Report

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>>2529252
>Wisconsin less than Minnesota?
MN has the boundary waters...sconny doesnt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 16:33:05 No.2529399 Report

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>>2524656
>There's literally nothing to do there but walk,
>hurrdurrr there is no hunting or fishing in the Rockies.
you've never actually been /out in the West, have you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 23:43:33 No.2529608 Report

Quoted By: >>2529611 >>2529627

I live in Maryland and I think it’s not good but it’s not terrible. We have some nice mountains and the Chesapeake bayl. I think people rate us low because nobody knows anything about us. Maryland is a pretty state. It’s just little Virginia. I get that we’re liberal and we’re built around DC but I think we are a solid 4.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 23:45:39 No.2529611 Report

Quoted By: >>2529733

>>2529608
Like how the fuck is Massachusetts better than Maryland? The Chesapeake mogs their coast and were much more biodiverse.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jan 2023 23:55:11 No.2529615 Report

Quoted By: >>2529628

>>2529392
>is only in the eastern part of the state
he meant western.
i grew up in eastern oregon, it is a very sparsely populated area with everything from mountains to plains to high desert.
living in western oregon now and i can confirm, it's a rainy mess 8 months out of the year

obviously extremely biased, but if it weren't for the people in portland and about 60% of the population of eugene, it would be the best state in the US (well tied w/ washington. they have the same issue with retarded clown-shit crazy problem progressives that we do)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 00:43:00 No.2529627 Report

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>>2529608
I‘m an Allegany native and Garrett is some of the best winter mountains especially that I‘ve seen anywhere. The western part is solid all the way down to Frederick really.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 00:54:21 No.2529628 Report

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>>2529615
i grew up in lewis county, wa and this looks exactly like it. very cozy country.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 02:51:54 No.2529668 Report

Quoted By: >>2529700

>>2529396
If they don’t leave the holler why are they a problem? You’re not making sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 02:57:59 No.2529672 Report

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>>2524435
>NY only a 5
Why? I love New York. You've got the long path, the Adirondacks, the Catskills. Lots of great small towns all over WNY, CNY, Upstate and the north country with their own little parks. Lots of rivers and lakes. There's a lot of variety in New York. Great rock climbing as well. As far as outing goes, I feel comfortable saying New York is a 10.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 04:42:23 No.2529700 Report

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>>2529668
I am making sense. Your meth-addled brain is broken.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 06:28:43 No.2529724 Report

Quoted By:

>>2524435
pretty decent, a little harsh on NM and VT though I think.

NH deserves a 4, full of snowmobile rednecks

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 08:27:16 No.2529733 Report

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>>2529611
A lot of people think outdooring = hiking and forget that you can go /out/ on the water as well.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 08:37:20 No.2529735 Report

Quoted By: >>2529882

>Texas higher than Arkansas and Missouri

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 15:10:06 No.2529833 Report

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>>2524435
>KS is a 1
good, stay the fuck out

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Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 15:22:40 No.2529836 Report

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My thoughts: i hate you. I want to choke you. I wat you hit you in the head with a shovel

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 15:38:59 No.2529846 Report

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>>2529252
LA clearly wins for water and coastal activities. The Mississippi River delta is fucking Amazing. That said the weather sucks and is very unpleasant, particularly for out of staters. Hunting is good on both land and water/swamp (hog, nutria, whitetail, gator), fishing is amazing too, can go crabbing and crawfishing.

Definitely loses in hiking/biking/trail category though. Not any vistas to speak of unless you count looking at cypress swamps, they're pretty but hardly count.

Ultimately comes down to how much you weight certain activities relative to one another really.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 17:12:39 No.2529882 Report

Quoted By: >>2529888

>>2529735
Texas narrowly beats Arkansas but it sure beats the hell out of Missouri.
>>2528630
Doesn’t apply to high desert.
>>2529392
>>2526342
Take meds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 17:16:31 No.2529886 Report

Quoted By: >>2530178

>>2524899
>she doesnt know about the Driftless area

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Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 17:18:20 No.2529888 Report

Quoted By: >>2529976

>>2529882
For those struggling to understand why TX deserves a medium high rating, take a look at this light pollution map. This essentially tracks areas of true wilderness in the lower 48. The biggest continuous dark patch in the southwest is centered right on the Texas border with Mexico. Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, and Montana all have nice continuous patches as well. Commiefornia is dogshit on the other hand. The only place in the state as remote as the Texas backcountry is Death Valley, and even that is quite close to Las Vegas. There’s no real wilderness there when everything is that crowded. Doesn’t matter how high the mountains are. Remoteness > elevation

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 17:52:11 No.2529900 Report

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>>2524527
This but ironically.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 19:34:46 No.2529954 Report

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>>2524435
Terrible list bro. Your shit is all fucked up. You never been to the Midwest? You don’t know about the UP? Nigga thinks florida covered in golf courses and swamp is somehow higher than Nevada, Tennessee, or South Carolina. The 1s you gave out make literally no sense, WI and MN are far too underrated, bro doesn’t know about the north woods, hunting or fishing obviously. Try again after traveling more and not just guessing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 20:18:01 No.2529976 Report

Quoted By: >>2530065

>>2529888
the other component is land use, those swaths of low pop areas in west texas are mostly private range land right?
out here in the west those areas are state/fed forest.
i think it's a function of population density as you stated, but also public access to land.

corner crossing should be legal, and land holders shouldn't be able to encircle public lands with privately held parcels, then block access to the public land.
right to roam/cross private land to public should be a legal condition to owning such land =/

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 22:25:56 No.2530065 Report

Quoted By: >>2530083

>>2529976
A lot is private but the most remote areas are largely public. Green is hikeable land in this pic. Agree with you on the corner crossing thing. A lot of boomers sitting on amazing land that they turn into exotic wildlife ranches and other lame shit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 22:49:28 No.2530083 Report

Quoted By: >>2530087

>>2530065
it's not even a 'boomer' problem per se though anon (that retarded term is so horribly abused). But yeah, it's typically ranchers or outfitters who'll use their plot of land to basically block public access to the much larger swathes of public land behind theirs. like if you look at a map of BLM holdings, there's this fucky checkerboard pattern of public/private land that's 100% devised to fuck the peasants over.
pic related, the rancher here has de factor control over all of that land, but he'd gladly sell your party a weekend hunting pass for a grand or so. (and he'd go absolutely ballistic if you corner crossed to avoid his blockade)

(full disclosure, my property abuts BLM forest on 2 sides, there's no road access. i think i'd be more than a little upset at people traversing my property to get to the BLM forest. But there's a distinction between someone's private residence/smallholding and some rancher with fuckoff huge amounts of land who weaponizes gates and corner crossing prohibitions for economic benefit)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 22:55:41 No.2530087 Report

Quoted By: >>2530089

>>2530083
>100% devised to fuck the peasants over.
Checkerboard lands are a legacy of the railroad grants and not some sinister plot to keep you oppressed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 23:00:22 No.2530088 Report

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>>2524435
7 is pretty fucking high for Florida, it has nice parts of course like the springs and the not super touristy beaches and the Everglades are interesting if shit to actually be on foot in, but like 90% of the state is just flat endless expanses of saw palmettos too tall to see over and too short to provide shade.

It's not the worst state for /out/ by any stretch but it's pretty dismal outside of fishing and swimming.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 23:03:53 No.2530089 Report

Quoted By: >>2530100

>>2530087
can you explain away the corner crossing bullshit as well?
maybe it's a legacy from the railroads, but they're definitely being misused today

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Jan 2023 23:19:16 No.2530100 Report

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>>2530089
I wasnt "explaining" it away just pointed out the origin of it...and that it wasnt some sinister plot to persecute you. We have a lot of checkerboard where I live in MT.

Corner crossing is techincally illegal but people do it all the time. There are a couple of court cases here in MT that are bring the issue to a head.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Jan 2023 00:58:53 No.2530178 Report

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>>2529886
you mean the thing that is mostly in other states?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Jan 2023 21:53:28 No.2531289 Report

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>>2529311
The northwest Taconic hills are nice, especially Bear Mountain. Also the Quinnipiac Trail in central western CT is some of the best scrambling in the northeast.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 10:18:47 No.2531881 Report

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>>2524665
Where is this!?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 13:12:08 No.2531915 Report

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>>2531881
A mountain range in Texas. There are about 6 or 7 of them so if you spend like 15 minutes researching you can probably figure out which one this is just based on the flora and rock formations. That’s the minimum bar to pass for entry. I believe in you champ.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 14:46:29 No.2531942 Report

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>>2524435
>Texas rated higher than New Hampshire or Hawaii

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 15:23:59 No.2531970 Report

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>>2531942
I’ve hiked throughout New Hampshire and Texas, NH is better during those short few weeks in fall where the foliage makes everything look fantastic and the weather is crisp, but for all season hiking West Texas totally mogs NH. It’s much more remote and the views are way more expansive. Idk about Hawaii.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 15:39:21 No.2531978 Report

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>>2524474
100% agree. Lower the texas ranking, please.

t. Texas Ranching Anon

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 15:50:12 No.2531980 Report

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>>2531978
Ranchers are queers, ranking stays. Your kind is the only thing standing between Texas getting a 7.5 and Texas getting a 9.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 16:40:54 No.2532001 Report

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>>2531970
>but for all season hiking
casual detected

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 16:42:14 No.2532003 Report

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>>2524435
>>2524435
Hi guys, I did one for Canada based on my very limited experience. Maybe some of you can add to it or provide some feedback?

My justifications:
>Ontario (home): gets a 6 because while it does have some amazing outdoor spaces, like Algonquin Park, and of course the entire North-West of the Province, most of the Southern part, where people actually live, is pretty developed farmland and urban area.
>Quebec: gets a 7 because once you get out past the Saint Lawrence seaway and associated large cities it's basically nothing but hills and wilderness and taiga.
>New Brunswick: I give it a 7 too, it's small but it does have some pretty impressive natural monuments like the Bay of Fundy and associated areas.
>PEI: gets a 5 because although it's beautiful and has an incredible beach (PEI National Park) most of it is densely-developed farmland. It's actually Canada's most densely populated province.
>Nova Scotia: gets a 9 because of Cape Breton which is fucking incredible.
>Newfoundland: gets a ? because I've never been there, but from what I've heard it would probably get a high score.
>Manitoba: gets a ? because I've never been there. Churchill up north is a popular enough tourist destination, and most of the province is empty taiga.
>Saskatchewan: probably the least impressive province in terms of natural beauty, it was mostly prairie in the past, it's mostly farmland now.
>Alberta: gets a 9 because of Banff and Jasper alone, although the prairie is quite beautiful as well and Dinosaur Provincial Park is worth a visit.
>BC: gets a 9, maybe should even be a 10 because honestly Vancouver Island, the coastline, and the rainforest, are fucking beyond incredible. One of the most beautiful places in the world, in my opinion.
>Yukon: gets an 8 because it's basically Canada's Alaska minus the Coastline (that's in Northern BC).
>Nunavut and NWT get a ? because I've never been there. I'm sure the tundra is beautiful though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 17:57:32 No.2532041 Report

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>>2532001
piddling through the snow with snowshoes in negative windchill isn’t really hiking, nor is skiing.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 19:47:47 No.2532098 Report

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>>2524435
MO Bro here (STL area), it really does fucking suck. There are some nice areas nearby but most of them are just small parks with sub 5 mile hiking trails. I like guns and I don't really have any BLM or public land I can go be a retard on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 19:59:37 No.2532103 Report

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>>2532003
>putting Yukon below Alberta and FUCKING NOVA SCOTIA
>ranking Ontario as a 6 because of the tiny section around Toronto, even though the Bruce Peninsula, Blue Mountains, and Haliburton are all great /out/ spaces

god awful ranking, Alberta should be much lower esp since most of the /out/ is in the National Parks which nickle and dime you to death and are 100% packed with tourists the entire year

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Anonymous Tue 31 Jan 2023 02:21:26 No.2532691 Report

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>>2524435
Nevada as 6

But please keep thinking that, don't spoil my unmolested Nevada outback

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