More Words, Deeper Hole

There are these places in the U.S. called "the Adirondacks", "the Alleghenies", "the North Woods" (yes I know), "the Mojave", "West Virginia" and so forth.

Perhaps visiting a small mountain which has had its top half sheared off by coal mining (causing its local aboriginal Celt population to seek solace in crystal meth) is not quite the same as visiting Hydro-Quebec installations or Mennonite farms in muskeg country. But it's pretty close.