• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Again, I’m not talking about a park because in the US there’s enormous amounts of public land. For example, I like camping in Manistee National Forest, which is about a million acres of almost completely undeveloped land. Its just not feasible to build a cable car route to the like 7000 trail heads throughout. Nor would I want that because that in itself would destroy so much more of the nature compared to the handful of small cars.

    Oh and Hannibal’s famous march took 5-6 months. And unfortunately I don’t have that kind of PTO ;)

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      11 hours ago

      @Lv_InSaNe_vL Lewis and Clark walked all the way to the west coast. My father hiked from Corpus Christie Texas to the Canadian border through the Rocky Mountains in the mid 1970s. If you want to visit remote areas of national parks your feet and a backpack are the best options. Horses are also an option. They can be rented and buying and maintaining a horse is cheaper than buying and maintaining a car. They also do less damage to nature.

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        10 hours ago

        my father hiked from corpus Christie Texas to the Canadian border

        Yeah and I’ve done the Pacific Crest Trail too, which is 2650 miles from the Mexican border to the Canadian one. It took me about 4 months almost entirely on foot. I’m not saying it’s not possible, it’s just really nice to be able to go backpacking for a weekend.

        If you want to visit remote parts of national parks

        Again, I am not talking about the national parks. I mentioned that in my first comment. I am talking about things like State forests and National Forests which are essentially just enormous forests. They aren’t “parks” in the same way a national park is. They don’t have big visitor centers or perfectly well maintained trails.

        Buying and maintaining a horse is cheaper than buying and maintaining a car

        Hahahahahahahaha hahahahaha oh wait are you serious? Hahahahaha. God that’s funny. My car cost me $3500 and about $1500/year after gas/insurance/maintenance. A horse is going to be significantly more than that. And I still need to get the horse to and from the various trail heads which is still going to require a vehicle. And a much larger one because my little car isn’t gonna tow a trailer lmao