>>2842841The more I've traveled the US, the more I've started to see California as the stereotypical "jack of all trades, master of none" state. It has deserts, but it doesn't have the best deserts. In fact... California's deserts are pretty awful. It has alpine mountains, but it doesn't have the best alpine mountains and other states have more unrestricted, more accessible, more diverse, more plentiful mountainous areas. It has several national parks... but so do other states. It has a coast, but Oregon and Washington have the better coast. It has the redwoods, but the rainforest in Washington is just better than that. It has Lassen, which is like a poor man's version of Yellowstone. It has Death Valley, which is just a more populated version of the Virgin Valley. Yeah, you can ski at multiple hills in California but the quality of skiing in Wyoming, Vermont, Utah, and Washington is just better.
The biggest claim to fame I've heard from Californian outdoorsmen is that you can surf and ski in the same day but... you can do that in Washington, Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Hawaii. California desperately wants to be the best /out/ state but it just isn't quite there.
