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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 128 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I would like to point out that the image of the cowboy and wild west being the hot and dry southern states isn't that accurate.

The wild west was also Oregon country, now Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska.

In the latter four, even now, if you go too far into the wild unprepared they won't find you.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're not called the goodlands.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's just called wilderness, looks beautiful, arguably more deadly.

Parks in AZ on the border of Phoenix(for example) don't have notices that cars left in the lot will have immediate search and rescue operations started to find them at dusk. Parks on the northern edge of Vancouver do.

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

cars left in the lot will have immediate search and rescue

Why do they have a lot, if parking there is considered an emergency?

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

You're supposed to bring your car with you portage style. It's all part of leaving no trace.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Android deleted the word overnight. Specifically at dusk.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Into the wild

I see what you did there

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Exactly, there's a whole bunch of "winter" cowboys in Montana and Wyoming, lol

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

props for RDR2 for outright beginning with cowboys in hip-deep snow

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

You can have that weather in northern Arizona though.

The closest thing we've had in a game to the temperate rainforests of the pacific northwest that a lot of the cowboys of the region had to fave would be the thick tropical jungles of Crysis and Far Cry.