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Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social |
I mean, national parks in Europe are mostly like "we ringfenced this bit, it was pretty. You can walk for an hour or so in that direction and then walk back" and national parks in America are more like "this is a region the size of Belgium. It's neat, but don't get lost. We can't find you if you do"
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David Marshall
@funmandave.bsky.social
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“And if we find you, we’ll bill you for our expenses while looking. “If we don’t find you, we can bill your estate at our discretion.”
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Megan E. Zombi
@zombiscribe.bsky.social
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Living in the American Southwest I love that people come here to explore and stuff but the stress we have to put on "bring more water" and the terrifying consequences of people not listening... If you think you have enough water to hike in the desert you don't, bring more
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ph00tbag
@ph00tbag.bsky.social
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I took a trip out to the big five in Utah, and it's wild how often, "you shouldn't go past this point, but if you do, have fun," is an actual policy out there.
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Semi-feral Post Monger
@dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social
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I once encountered Belgian tourists in Canyonlands. I gave them directions. They commented that the park was as big as their country
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CJ Lemire
@cjlemire.bsky.social
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THIS
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Tim Shea
@gingerjet.bsky.social
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A colleague from Japan thought he could drive from SF to Denver and BACK in a weekend ... while ... technically ... true ... once I plugged in the route for him in google maps - he bought a plane ticket.
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Claire Gilder
@clarbar.bsky.social
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I completely broke some Europeans’ brains last summer when I told them my state is about the size of Germany, but has 1.2million people instead of 80million. The idea of “you can be hundreds of miles from another human” about did them in.
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RainaThrownAway
@rainathrownaway.bsky.social
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"It's a big-ass hole in the ground, in fact it is *the biggest*-ass hole in the ground, if you fall in we'll have to scrape you into a bag."
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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Unless you're Ben Kuo (I agree broadly I just think this was bad ass and like to bring it up whenever humanly possible)
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
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Molotovsky
@grifftheimpaler.bsky.social
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We also have bears on cocaine.
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Snitty
@clofsnitville.bsky.social
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I'm laughing because this is absolutely true, but my first visit to a big national park came after a lot of visits to national forest areas in Vermont and NH which have trails, sorta, that might be marked, sorta, and pretty much no services. So I was amazed at how safe and cozy and groomed!
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Alaskan Weeb
@alaskanweeb.bsky.social
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Things like this are why I honestly love this country and will have to be chased out at gunpoint before I leave it. Massive, beautiful landscapes. (Don’t read a history textbook, spoils the beauty)
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John Sisino
@smarmyeod.bsky.social
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Years ago my ex & I went camping at the Petrified Forrest (highly recommend, BTW). We had to pick a general area to camp, inform the park which one, provide our license plate, planned departure date, & color of our tent. Y’know, so if the car stayed parked too long, they could look for our bodies.
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Mark Finch
@katzenfinch.bsky.social
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When I was on the Appalachian Trail in Maine a hiker broke his leg and had to be evacuated. It took a helicopter a while to find him because the tree canopy is so dense, then a seaplane had to land on a lake near his location to get him out.
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Passing Strange At Present
@chimaera.bsky.social
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Also funny that US is filled with "you stupid people should stay away from the edge, REALLY" but Europe doesn't have a million lawyers so fewer warning signs.
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Toast Conger
@toastfloats.bsky.social
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DrC and I used to say: "In the US, we think 100 years is a long time. In the EU, they think 100k is a long distance."
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Sarah
@sosomanysarahs.bsky.social
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The exception is Iceland, where you can definitely walk an hour in that direction and then walk back, but there are also dryly funny signs next to the geysers informing you of how many km it is to the nearest hospital.
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Nicholas Weaver
@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com
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"We have entire books how people have died out here in amazingly inventive and stupid ways. They are in the gift shop."
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Sean Kozma
@seankozma.bsky.social
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“And this national park is the massive mountain chain that literally divides our country in half north to south…”
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Concoloris
@concoloris.bsky.social
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DO NOT TRY TO PET THE FUZZY COW
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Lordkeynes does the monster mash
@lordkeynes42.bsky.social
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The only national park anything like europe is Cuyahoga valley national Park, and like mammoth cave minus the Backcountry area.
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mado 🌺🌱
@matteoalberghini.com
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I think you don't understand how big Europe is, and how small Belgium is
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Dr. Benway
@docbenway.bsky.social
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The trails up the mountain do not have signs that in anyway describe the difficulty of the hike. There is literally nothing to stop you from beginning what you thought was a gentle nature walk which is in reality a four hour round trip with scrambles up bare rock, where a slip could mean death.
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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i know you killed off all the megafauna and apex predators centuries ago, but the thing that looks like bullwinkle is ill-tempered and will trample you if you look at it funny. it will sometimes visit this parking lot, especially during mating season. it may attempt to breed with your rental car.
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Stephen Webb
@stephenwebb.bsky.social
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oh you mean denali national park
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Steve T PhD
@thelasttheorist.bsky.social
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Never mind the actual *people* who might kill you in a national park, due to the favorable jurisdictional conditions.
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Storlom 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸
@storlom.bsky.social
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Norway has areas like Finnskogen, which aren't national parks but they're pretty sparsely populated. I often went for day long hikes there during which I barely met anyone and was miles away from the nearest human settlement.
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Ashton
@ashtonk.bsky.social
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Which is why a surprising number of foreign tourists die in American parks. They’re not prepared for “park” to mean “hey it’s filled with unprotected drops and bears. Also, there are no services, have fun!”
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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
@aesonique.bsky.social
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National parks in Oz are like "you're more than 100m from the road. You were probably eaten by a Grue."
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Dan of La Mancha
@knitdan.bsky.social
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I went to look up how big our parks are and it turns out there’s one in Alaska that’s bigger than Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Switzerland -combined-.
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Jason Luthor
@jasonluthor.com
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Of all things America do right, our national parks may be the greatest of those things.
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E-man
@leftcoastracing.bsky.social
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Facts. Also, there are parts of the mountains north of Vancouver where you can be hopelessly lost and about to die of exposure while having a clear view of the lights of downtown.
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Queen Gwenevere
@queengwenevere.bsky.social
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“Huge dangerous animals will just Be There. In the middle of the path. In the middle of the road. In the middle of the town. Eating your picnic lunch. Doing whatever they want. Wherever they want to be. Do not try to pet them or argue with them about your picnic lunch, they will destroy you.”
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T GO NEAR THE COLORFUL MUD
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Moe Juggs
@joemuggs.bsky.social
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Weird thing is Germany has mountains, wolves, boar and - I think - bears. They ought to get it.
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Andrea
@andrea.tryste.ro
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...and then there's the ZONE OF DEATH, where it might accidentally be legal to commit murder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of...
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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“the helicopter doesn’t work real well in that part so even if we do find you we’re gonna have to get you out of there on a donkey”
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Lisa
@footenotes.bsky.social
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Toured Chichén Itzá in group including 2 Germans, Claus and Claudia Heat index was so high that I constantly sipped water and never needed to pee Saw Claudia mid-afternoon in a shelter; her skin dry Had to explain how dehydrated she was; persuaded her to sit and sip water for an hour
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Beate
@beate.bsky.social
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In Norway the problem with tourists is not that the places to go are huge, but that people think they can go like they would for a stroll in a park or a man made track, when what they need to do climb a mountain for maybe 10 hours or prepare to get lost in a blizzard.
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Eric
@proggyboog.bsky.social
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Some national parks are definitely closer to the outback than a "park".
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@weedramatic.bsky.social
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Otoh some northern European countries you can just keep on walking as long as you're not going into somebody's building. Not in a park, and presumably more dangerous for it
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@helchose.bsky.social
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I can recall a GC ranger telling us kids at the rim that Europeans are accustomed to hiking in the Alps where food and water are available at regular intervals, and they are often surprised to learn that there is NOTHING between the rim and Phantom Ranch and that's how they get into so much trouble.
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