• @bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      Absolutely. You’d be able to see Colorado from most of the country if the elevation was to the same scale as the horizonal distance.

      Run Google Earth (the app or in the browser) and you can see how relatively flat it all is.

      • @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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        First, it’s not zero. Denver is 5000ft ASL and it’s in a valley (towns around it are higher). There’s a slow elevation change across the Midwest to the Rockies.

        Second, Passes are a thing.

        Still, wagons crossing the Rockies is an amazing thing.