RE: Straight Outta The Holler
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Have you ever seen an ugly mountain?
Yes, two of them in fact, but only because humans made them ugly.
1 - Mt Evans - these motherfuckers decided to put in a paved road to the top. Now everyone with four wheels and a tiktok can drive up there and show the world how good they are at harassing goats and how bad they are at driving mountain roads. Hell, I could probably run up that road faster than most of the fucking flatlanders who lose their minds while trying to drive it.
2 - Pikes Peak - same story as Evans, except Pikes has an actual tourist shop at the top. People literally drive up there to eat donuts and drink coffee and make pissworthy small talk about an incredible view they don't deserve to witness. If it were up to me I'd burn the whole place down.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about those. I've been to the summit of Pike's Peak but I don't count it because of all that. You forgot the cog railway there too...
One of the ways they mine coal in eastern Kentucky is the euphemistically named "mountaintop removal" where they just blow the fucking mountain up and into the valley below. When we were kids our dad took us to see what it looked like when they were done and had 'reclaimed' the land. Anger and rage are insufficient terms for the feelings seeing that incited. Enough to make you want to take thermite to everything...
It's sad what people do to the earth for financial gain. There's a famous mine just north of Leadville called Climax. They are literally carving the mountain down into nothing.