I've seen the South and it is very thick cover down there, but it is a different kind than we have out West. My definition of thick cover is if you can't see through it, can't bull doze yourself through it, can't see more than a foot infront of your face, and it's dark because light has a hard time showing through, then it's thick cover. Now take that thick cover, add an extremely steep pitch that never seems to top out, and no roads, cell or gps service for miles, then you'll know what I have 30 minutes from my front door. If you desire even more of an adventure we can go an hour and a half from my door and have the same dark, thick environment, but add grizzly bears, wolves, black bears, and mountain lions to the mix. Where I live we only have to deal mostly with black bears and mt. lions. Which btw, is fine by me as I don't much care for wolves or grizzly bears. In the summer time you can add mosquitos, black flies, gnats, and rattle snakes as well.