For the many unnamed mountain-ranges, this is what they might be like:
It’s a video of two hiking on the Great Basin Ranges around Nevada and Utah.
This definitely would resemble Athas, as this is the area used by the creators to base their original map. To the southeast of this area (Ipabah Peak/Red Mountain) you can see the lake that becomes Makla and Castle Dale (Urik) and just south of that you can see the Dragons Bowl depression.
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Yeah … I’ve always thought a lot of Athas’ deserts and mountains are strongly inspired by the US Southwest. That might just be my bias since I’ve never been to the Sahara or Australian Outback, but I think there are some real connections, like the abundance of cactus (which is pretty much a Western Hemisphere thing) and the Forest Ridge/White Mountains as “sky islands” of forest above the desert below.
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