Adirondack Park vs The West

When most people think of High Wilderness Adventure they think of out west. They know little about a place in their own backyard the Adirondack Park.

Here is a comparison of what the west has & what we have

What's out west	What's here
El Capitan	Big Slide
Crater Lake	Avalanche Lake
Pike's Peak	Whiteface Mt
Devil's Tower	Firetowers
Eastern Montana's "The Big Empty"	The Park's Northwest Frontier
Avalanches of Ice & Snow	Slides of Rock & Mud
Towns with elevations Higher than 1 mile	Oxygen
Donner's Pass	Calamity Mt. & Pond
Bigfoot	Champ
Silver & Gold mining Ghost towns	Iron mining Ghost towns
Whitewater Rafting on the Snake River	Whitewater Rafting on the Raqutte River
The Grand Canyon	The Gulf
Arches National Park	Natural Stone Bridge & Caves
Forest of Redwoods	Forest of White Birches
Condors	Blackflies
Salmon that swim upstream then mate & die	Salmon that swim upstream then mate but live
Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002 if nobody goes to jail	Olympics in Lake Placid 1932 & 1980 and maybe 2026
Crazy Horse Monument	Indian Head
Glacier National Park	Glacier erratics
Police that pull over "Outta Staters"	Police that pull over everyone
The Forty year flood	The Forty year Blowdown
Cactus	Cripplebush
Clear, dark skies with no light pollution	Clear, dark skies with no light pollution
Death Valley	Pleasant Valley
Mountains named after Politicians who never been there (such as Mt. Mckinley)	Mountains named after Politicians who never been there (such as Mt. Marcy)
Yerts	Lean-tos
Rt. 66	Rt. 30
Locals armed to the teeth	Locals armed to the teeth
The Alamo	Fort Ticonderoga
Indian Reservations where you can buy cheap cigarettes	Indian Reservations where you can buy cheap cigarettes
The Isolated & rarely visited Sawtooth Range	The Isolated & rarely visited Sawtooth Range
Timber Companies that come into an area and for many years after they are gone they leave huge scars in the earth	Timber Companies that come into an area and after they are gone leave little trace in the earth that they were actually there.
The Cascades	The Cascade on Cascade.
The Bad Lands	The Flowed Lands
Northwest Passage	Indian Pass
Snow on  mountain peaks into the summer	Snow on mountain peaks into the summer
Kennedyaphobia - Fear of East Coast Liberals Controlling their way of Life	Cuomoaphobia -Fear of New York City Liberals controlling their way Life
Hell's Canyon	Panther Gorge
Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes	Eastern Timber Rattlesnakes
Coors Beer made in Richmond Va.	Saranac Beer made in Utica
The Oregon Trail	Northville-Placid Trail
Fear and Hatred of the Jack Booted Thugs of the ATF	Fear and Hatred of the Pencil Pushing Thugs of the APA
Lewis & Clark	Colvin & Clark
Crowds jamming into Yellowstone & Yosemite	Crowds jamming into the High Peaks & Lake George

All the Adirondacks need now are Wolves & Elk and the West Coast will have nothing on us!

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