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Neurodivergents argue over whether or not it's dangerous to hike in jeans

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There are people arguing that it is absolutely IDIOTIC that someone would hike in jeans when doing so could KILL you.

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if you show up to my 140 km multi day trip in jeans you get left at the car and not permitted to come to another one. If it's a long day hike you get left at the car but a second chance. If it's a short day hike (but still worthy of a guide) you put on the spare pants in my car.

Lmao I'm just going to follow. What are you going to do?

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:marseyraging: I told you to stay in the car! What are you doing?

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:#marseydisconcerting: *sips tea*

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Great thread. Rich in autism! :marseylickinglips:

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If you wear jeans, you'll fall over and die while walking around a mountain!

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>So uh I actually went outside and noticed that none of this true. OP is indeed a cute twink. :marseywise:

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@J can we have a bot to ping orange site neurodivergents?

@holden_commodore thinks that trans women are women.

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@holden_commodore thinks that trans women are women

@holden_commodore, do you really? :marseysmughips:

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ur a valid queen bb

i'll respect ur pronouns (conditional for others)


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Maybe, how do they do their usernames, b-word? We would need a fricking standard way so i can pick it out

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Never mind, they don't have a messaging system.

@holden_commodore thinks that trans women are women.

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black lives matter and so does looking cute at the trail head

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Reminds me of this old Polish copypasta:

It is terrible how people go to the mountains! They don't realize the danger! I climbed Giewont last year, July, sweltering heat, everyone in shorts, flip flops, small children - a nightmare! I was the only one who was prepared: two ice axes, crampons, professional clothing, a special heavily flattened tent (to resist the winds), oxygen bottles - the worst were those mocking looks of ignorant people. And after all, this is the MOUNTAINS and everything can change in a second! I divided the ascent into 4 days, with a camp every few hundred meters, acclimatization, of course, fixed-rope at each stage and on the last day an attack on the summit. Every morning I found Coke cans and chip wrappers in the vestibule of my tent! Darn those amateurs! I finally reached the summit, I left the spent oxygen bottles under the cross in the death zone, where - to my horror! - I met a grandmother with her two grandchildren! I descended another 4 days, but I survived this test of skill and character. At the end of August I plan to climb Kościuszko Mound, alpine style - but if I see tourists with children and cotton candy, I'll call the police.

~A real mountain man, alpinist, professional

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Kościuszko Mound

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Nice mound!

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I don't get it :marseysad:

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Why would they get rid of the kittyhair like that

Trans lives matter

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Because its fricking disgusting :#marseyserioushatfact:

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They're smurfs, they don't have powercowtools

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1. collect :marseystamp2: pubes

2. ???

3. profit

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hallways from prison exterior section going straight into the middle of the hill

maaan.. I bet they get up to some nasty, nasty shit under that hill.

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and on the last day an attack on the summit.

Oh shut the frick up.

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Black Cloud Thunder

by Twark Might

It is eleven PM. Thirty feet of snow has fallen in the last twenty minutes. My fingers are frozen solid. The wind is pounding our ropes and our determination. Our belay consists of one piton hammer stuck three millimeters into a rotting hunk of moss. Harry Hampered is vomiting green and brown spew and bleeds copiously from his rock-fall-broken nose as I get ready for the final pitch of our new route on Les Grands Tombés in Chamonix. Worst of all, I think I'm out of batteries and can't listen to my Discman.

I got the call three weeks ago in Boulder. I was sitting at the Airy Green Fairy café with--let's call her--Amy.

"Twark," she pressed, sensing doubt perhaps by the way I held my pinky on my espresso-cup hand, "now is when I need you. I'm starting my organic community garden for underprivileged Latinx youth with cerebral palsy and autism, and I need your support. I want you here with me and those kids, being a role model and helping."

Away off in the distance, September snows dusted the Rockies. Her voice drifted away into the clear empty air as icy couloirs, sheer granite cracks and ripping winds filled my mind with the usual NWA soundtrack: "You think I give a darn about a b-word? I ain't a sucker!"

"I've got stuff to do," I told her, throwing a fiver on the table and standing up. Idly, I wondered if she was good for another round in the sack, and then forgot about it as I saw the Big Bad Bodies Gym sign down the street. Time for pain.

Climbing will go faster, I realize, now that I have cut Leif Trailer free from the rope and he has fallen to the death that suits wussy people who refuse to lead dangerous pitches. His screaming is nearly gone from my mind as I start up the pitch. I find a tenuous placement for my left tool. An enormous chunk of ice slams my right shoulder, breaking my arm. I now have only one arm to climb with. As the pitch begins to overhang by 45 degrees, I have to do one-armed dynos with my left tool to ever smaller holds with no feet. I move up thirty feet on no gear, then grab my tool with my teeth so I can use my arm to put in a screw. "Eat my butt, Will Gadd, Raphael Slawinski and Stevie Haston," I mutter through a mouthful of tool. "THIS is mixed climbing."

Alpine climbing is brute amazing pain, punctuated with moments of elation that only the few and the proud—the hard alpinists—will (and should) ever be able to savor. I begin my training routine with six hundred one-armed pull-ups per arm off of my Stubai straight-shafts. Bent cowtools are for posers. I follow this with six marathons and two thousand push-ups. In the weeks that follow, the frequency of Amy's phone messages drops to around one per day. I get into the Zone, crank up the Joy Division and the Rancid, and get hard. Nights, I rent Masters of Stone videos and wonder at all the losers working boulder problems, prominently displaying their Patagucci and Horse Race clothing. The only way you could get farther from Real Climbing is to sit on a beach and imagine a mountain. And then float up it.

"Secure," I scream at Harry. Towers of black cloud thunder over us as Harry jugs the pitch. He arrives, and I look deep into his eyes, and want to kiss him when he says "You are one crazy motherlover." This is why I climb in the alpine—to feel so close to both death and another man that kissing him and watching him die become equivalent sensations and equal possibilities. We are close, Harry and I, as we posthole toward the summit up the final snow slope. Then I hear the rumble of the avalanche.

I want to go light. We pack two screws, one nut, three small cams and one two-millimeter rope. Weight is for gumbies. I am naked under my Gore-Tex suit. The harness feels delicious on my scrotum as I test my gear in the privacy of my apartment. We will bring only water, energy bars and caffeine pills, and we will climb for 80 hours non-stop in order to finish the route. Boulder is full of girls with 'biners holding coffee mugs to their backpacks and morons in SUVs with Petzl stickers as I head to the airport. Maybe the hardest moment of the climb is persevering through the dangerous approach slopes of sport, trad rock, bouldering, aid and gym climbing that threaten to avalanche safe idiocy onto me as I work toward The Real Thing.

Hanging with one heel spur, the avalanche roars over me. I vaguely hear Harry screaming as I take his full weight and he dangles in space. Something jogs my Discman, and suddenly the music returns. "Don't call, don't call me white," sings Pennywise, something I can identify with. Who wants to be a member of the lame loser class that dominates? I get energy, and use my arm to haul Harry up. We continue to the top, blink twice, and stumble down toward bed.

The next morning, we discuss the route name and grade over coffee. We agree on "Frick the Entire Universe, Who Are Losers but Don't Know It," and grade the route at Grade VIII, WI7 A5+ 5.15c M22X. Harry, after this experience, will never climb with me again. And so, at the end of the climb, I am only really beginning up the lonely mountain of total alpinist commitment.

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This is a really long way of saying you don't frick.

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Me on Mt Hood, dabbing on the haters

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In order of priority for a maximum experience.

Rule 1 - Look Cool

Rule 2 - Have Fun

Rule 3 - Safety

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For single day hikes it literally is superior because you don't have to worry about ivy or snakes nipping at you. If you have a first aid kit falls aren't a concern, especially if you condition yourself to fall correctly.

Elitist likes these are usually fat fricks who bought the most expensive gear but only go like once a month, at talk down to normal hike-bros who go a couple times a week lmao

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If you are skinny you can get good leg movement in jeans. Only fatties cant step up in jeans

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That's just being stupid counter jerking.

Jeans are shit in the rain, spend any time reasonable amount of time outside somewhere that's got changeable weather and you wouldn't say that.

Don't have to be wearing Patagonia technical pants but even back in the day folk did not wear denim jeans, they wore wool trousers or moleskin stuff cos it sucks as to get caught in a light shower and have jeans stick to you for the next hour with the wind cutting right through the fabric.

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Why are you hiking in the rain, r-slur?

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Well most normal people don't hike in the rain lol

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2 dollar poncho that fits in your pocket r-slur

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FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!


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>you don't have to worry about ivy or snakes nipping at you

Neighbor just hike in the winter when that shits covered in snow

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Taking a first aid kit on a hike is a loser move. If you fall you take it like a man and bleed a little.

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EXCUSE ME were you trying to WALK without CONSOOMING?

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My friend, avid backpacker/camper, and I did a 10 mile loop in Mt. Rainier Park in the summer and for some we both thought that there won't be any snow, since it was a heat wave peak at the time :marseybrainlet:.

There was a frickload of snow a mile up from parking despite the heat and blazing sun, due to the elevation. My friend walked the most of those 10 miles in the fricking sandals :marseygrilling2: on that snow. Nothing happened to him at all, even though we had to stop a few times to warm up his feet in the sun. :marseyfeet:

He did consider this situation fun, but it was our tactical frickup. My point is: day hiking in US on the established trails is one of the safest fricking activities and you can wear whatever the frick you want, as long as you're ok with sweating through it. The worst thing you can get is cold. You need to frick up pretty spectacularly for there to be an actual danger to your life.

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When it comes to backpacking, cotton is rotten.

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it is pretty idiotic tho. heavy. trash when wet. takes forever to dry. and the robustness of denim isn't particularly useful.

we have invented better fabrics for hiking that aren't even expensive.

yes u can do things in a less than ideal manner, but they are certainly less than ideal.

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I hiked up and down Mt Washington (9 miles round trip) wearing jeans and Mt Mansfield like 20 times and never had a single issue. I don't even know what these idiots are talking about. Hiking is not serious business unless you're on big mountains with a pickaxe or some shit.

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In january?

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No one in their right mind would hike to the summit of Mt Washington in January at all. I wore snowboard pants when I hiked mansfield in the winter I guess.

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Shoulda worn jeans

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fricking trail jannies

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I wonder why people like this even enjoy hiking. Clearly they have no sense of adventure.

It reminds of women who go out on vacation and then create a whole itinerary and stress themselves out over it. What's even the point if you're going to be so stiff and joyless?

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It can be dangerous to hike in cotton but mainly it's just uncomfortable. You are almost guaranteed to be chafing and sweating or wet and cold and probably still chafing after a long day hiking.


Putting the :e: in spookie turkey merry new year donkey

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The two immutable laws of software forking:

1. They will attempt to incorporate rust

2. The solution to the problem is not rust

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