What’s the most annoying “popular” mod

It's actually a trick question, because there's no single way to define "most mountainous." Hawaii has the tallest mountain, Colorado has the highest average altitude, and surprisingly Nevada has the most named ranges. But the award for most mountainous by definition of percent terrain is actually...

West Virginia.




... and yet the opposite of every single one of those metrics, is still Florida.

 

Guessing Colorado, damn mountains everywhere....can't imagine why people keep moving here.

 

Denali would like to have a word with you

 

Don't confuse tallest with highest. The base to peak is not the same as sea-level to peak.

 

Does this pose make my butt look big?

 

.. This is fun. If only we were at a bar, I would have annoyed y'all endlessly with geography trivia.



Drink!

 

Lol what are you some kind of trivia lawyer?
I guess being technically correct is the best kind of correct. I should have guessed semantics would be involved by the post I quoted...
Touché

 

The same reply works for both of you... "Just waiting to pass the bar."

 

Shackles.

If those aren’t earrings, throw ‘em in a box with the other recovery gear.

 

"I crank them down tight so nobody steals them. Then I can't get them removed when I actually need to hook up for a pull."

 

Alaska

Edit: I read on in the thread. Still say Alaska, I'm pretty sure we have mountain ranges with more land area than West Virginia.

 

Careful bro, this guy is a ringer. He knows his geology trivia...
I was trying to stick up for the frigid north too, but that Hawaiian island is technically the tallest, even though the amount above sea level that’s climbable is 5k feet shorter than Denali.
He got me with semantics! He’s coming for you next!

 

Semantics were the point of the question! "Most mountainous" is so vaguely defined that any number of states can claim it, hence, whatever answer you pick, I can be an argumentative dick against you!

Here's what honestly surprised me though, because admittedly Alaska was my first guess too. But by almost every way you define it, Alaska never places higher than silver medal:



And I still say little ol' WV. Despite having no peak that touches even a measly 4500', It has almost none of that wide open flatland that every other state has. It's the ratio of terrain per sq mile that gives it the edge.

 

I agree. Semantics can lead to odd conclusions and while fun can paint one in a corner if consistency is thrown to the wind. The Alaska Range is the 3rd tallest mountain range in the world (the Himalaya and Andies being 1st and 2nd respectively). If we are talking elevation above sea level (the reference point for saying Colorado has more peaks) then Colorado smashes West Virginia as West Virginia's highest peak is only 1,546 feet higher than Colorado's lowest depression. If we are talking about base relief, the metric used to say Hawaii has the tallest mountain and to determine the hight of mountain ranges, Colorado does not have very tall mountains.

The key is that both metrics give useful information, above 5,000 ft both base relief and elevation above sea level are important from a human perspective. West Virgina has some decent base relief, but nothing that can be meaningfully considered altitude. Similarly, the base relief of Maunakea is not significant as most of it is below sea level. The recent "acsent" of Maunakea is a semantic joke that fails on the semantics. If I take a helicopter to the top of a mountain, no one would give me credit for climbing it. The use of a submersible to ascend the lower portion invalidates it as an ascent, and calling it an ascent masks the fact that the only technically difficult portion was descending to the base. This is why base relief cannt be the only measure.

Considering that Hawaii is exclusively composed of mountains, using percent of land area and base relief it beats West Virginia. Adding highest elevation above sea level Hawaii also wins. Even adding the metric of mean elevation above sea level Hawaii beats West Virginia roundly (and not because of high plateau which could be used agains Colorado).

Buy every metric that matters to a mountaineer, Alaska wins. It has the tallest mountain range, the most mountain ranges, the most inaccessible mountains, the most glaciated peaks, the highest point above sea level, due to atmospheric thinning at the poles is has a physiologic higher elevation. But, it has large flat areas to with a land mass 2.5 times larger than Texas. If holding flat ground against a state though, then percentage of land mass that is effectively level (say less than 2 percent grade) and not mountains is what one is really talking about, to be semantically correct. This calculation would have to include plateaus at the top of ridge lines. Though as even the plains in Colorado have topography, using this metric Colorado might be nearly entirely mountainous as every undulation automatically creats a summit more than 3,000 feet above sea level (demonstrating why base relief should be considered).

I hate typing long replies like this on my phone, but I'm trapped under a sleeping toddler. Forgive typos please and always have fun with semantics.

 

Can we get back to reading posts by people who complain about what others do with their trucks?

 

I despise people who do this. They are a special kind of dreadful mouth-breather.

 

Dangerous practice.

 

Somebody needs to do this with a TRD Pro and put light bars on it.

 

excessive emblems, or any chrome trim.

 

The snorkel. Has anyone actually ever tested it?