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>the picture that destroys PrepHole

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Couch and leather boots at 16000 feet

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >PrepHole doesn't know how mountaineering works
      I can tell. I've seen the multitude of "crampons????!!1!" failed threads and all the goofy advice on here, coupled with the fact that, miraculously, nobody outside of the climbing general seems to ever post about climbing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/AOkY4vU.jpg

        Couch and leather boots at 16000 feet

        how do you prevent slipping on solid ice

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          melt it first

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            so systematically heat the earth by releasing green house gases as much as possible?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              let me guess
              you need more?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    giwtwm

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    my buddy's done mt adams in checkerboard pattern vans slip ons multiple times
    some redditor did mt hood in a denim tuxedo
    >After WWII Joe Brown (English climber and climbing partner of Don Whillans) and many other climbers began to use Plimsoll shoes to climb harder routes.
    https://prezi.com/42zfl1c8f_6z/history-of-the-rock-climbing-harness-and-shoe/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      theres a fricking fire lookout on top of mt adams, its not the hardest climb even for an ultra

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >even for an ultra
        ultra homosexual that is

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah but im saying you can go up mountains in vans no prob

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hood is kinda famous in the mountaineering community but this really only applies to one side of the mount, the other side is basically a staircase and can be done in a day/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >old school hard-shell plastic mountaineering boots
      This is like the worst possible combination of equipment possible.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        anon, it's just ski boots, almost definitely for the luls and nothing else

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Anon it's Hood. It's a ski resort.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          How dare you try to derail an obvious b8 thread with that logical-bullshit-attitude.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            How are you supposed to solve this without knowing the area of the water in A?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Holy frick you autist. Just draw the fricking line!
              ...its a psychology test, not a math test. Print it and give it to some girls and tell them to solve it independently... than prepared to be...amused.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              then just measure the area of water in A

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No matter how much you tilt glass B, the water stays in glass A.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Snake climbed a tree grabbed a squirrel fell out the tree with the squirrel. Ate it. Snaked away. 2 days later got caught in my A/C unit and was shredded to bits. Life man.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because you need to be cool you killed a snake?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you killed ur dick on my fence, am I the one to blame? fkn moron

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Good thing that even my dreams are also painful

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Real life becomes even more unpleasant without my help thanks to clown world accelerations.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >NOOOO YOU CAN'T DREAM
      kys

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >>anon, you need to stop jerking off 20 times a day, you've turned your dick into a craggy knot of scar tissue!
        >RREEE!!! how dare you tell me to Never Ever Ever jerk off!!11
        Your inability, or outright refusal, to tell the difference between unhealthy avoidant coping and natural healthy speculation and daydreaming is hurting you deeply.
        get help.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'll never understand mountaineering. On an intellectual level, I comprehend wanting to summit a peak "because it's there," even though most been already been summited by many others in previous decades. I realize that charting a new route to climb, achieving something a little better or faster than most, or just reaching personal goals can provide motivation.

    It's just that tall mountains aren't the only things that are "out there." There are a lot of other things "out there" and, in my view, most of those things seem much more interesting than going up and down various large, lifeless rocks featuring only smaller chunks of themselves, ice, and snowpack.

    Take SCUBA, for example. There are fish, molluscs, crustaceans, and reefs and shit to explore, and studying oceanic biomes can be useful, even profitable. If mountaineers were chipping out fossils then that might be slightly interesting, but that would probably ruin the precious routes used by mountaineers to go up big rock and down again.

    In some ways this argument can apply to most PrepHole activities to some extent. For example, non-fishermen believe fishing is boring and that all you do is sit motionless holding a pole, which isn't true at all in practice. At least with fishing, though, you might see a turtle, you'll spot some interesting birds, there are trees, you'll get to talk to other fishermen, you might get lucky and find a nice lost lure, you can have fun paddling a boat around... mountaineering is just rocks, snow, and the company only of other mountaineers.

    I do respect it, because of the expertise and skill needed. I know you derive great enjoyment from it. But then, a severely autistic person derives great enjoyment from stacking his anime plushies in a highly specific way, and it may even require great concentration and skill to pull off.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You're on to something with the fishing comparison. It's not "just" snow and rocks and ice. When climbing up a mountain you absolute do see lots of animals. On one day on Mt. Rainier I saw chipmunks, grouse, pipits, marmots, squirrels, mountain goats - the mountains are very much alive. You are also actively and physically exploring, even if it's in a different way from how you would explore a forest or a reef. Strange ice formations, interesting rocks, alien and exciting escarpments, and of course the majesty of the mountain itself. Finally the change in view as you ascend is extremely rewarding just from the beauty of it. I guess it's impossible in some sense to explain an interest to someone who doesn't enjoy the same things you do unfortunately but my answer to "why not explore a more vibrant biome like a coral reef" is, why not both? Every part of nature has something of its own to enjoy beyond simply being there.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i just fricking hate those peakbaggers man

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's not a thing outside of PrepHole's fantasies.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You act like every person who climbs mountains doesn't ever do anything else in the outdoors. That's false. I've gone up more mountains than most people on this board, including the animeposters, and still find time for other activities like regular hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, fishing, swimming, and yes, diving. In fact, I'll be flying down to the tropics 24 hours from now like I do every January/February (save 2021) to break up the winter. I've probably done more diving than you, both in tropical locations in the winter and all over the Great Lakes in the summer.
      Have you even climbed a mountain before? If not, you should give it a try and maybe you'll discover why it's so popular.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Peak baggers love bragging about summiting even when they have other outdoor interests. You people are insufferable. I know ADK 46ers who have other interests yet they think their shit doesn't stink because they climbed all those hills. Nobody cares though because so many tourists have done it too. Thankfully ADK tourism only focuses on climbing moronation so I get all the awesome bogs mostly to myself.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I agree to an extent. Becoming a 46er doesn't make you special because nearly 14,000 people have done it. It does have some good scrambles though and exposes you to different weather and trail conditions. Many serious mountaineers cut their teeth on 4-6k peaks in the Adirondacks and New England before moving on to bigger climbs out west and internationally. It's a good place to train if you live in the northeastern part of the country, esp in winter.
          I'm also glad that the High Peaks serve as a containment zone for normies because it leaves most of the ADK's 6M acres free of crowds. I've had complete solitude in some really scenic areas of the park, even at the peak of fall foliage, because most people were concentrated on the highly-trafficked trails.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I only climb to snowboard down. If the snow is shit I don't care. I'll admit the views are nice

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >On an intellectual level,
      >I'll never understand mountaineering.
      That's because you don't go outside

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I'll never understand mountaineering
      It must be tough to be black.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >on an intellectual level
      >it doesn't let me consoom novelty
      mountains are interesting because they let you get away from the herds of bugmen that dwell near the coasts and valleys

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >even though most been already been summited by many others in previous decades
      Everything has been done by someone else, unless you plan to land on Pluton, your point?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I enjoy the physical exertion, views, and isolation from other human beings.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      have you ever been on a mountain before? wth are u talking about lol.
      theres animals all over the place, creeks, lakes, cliffs, amazing views, in snow pack you can skin up and ski down.
      theres nothing quit like getting up at 8,000 feet, looking over world, drinking ur coffee in the morning crisp

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      are u moronic? the height man

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Any of you guys like Mt Jefferson? The caps are pretty fun. That medium exposure right?

        >he swung twice and missed
        Sit down. You're embarrassing yourselves.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I comprehend wanting to summit a peak "because it's there," even though most been already been summited by many others in previous decades.
      fricking kek, the way you phrased it made it sound like, heh, someone else already popped her cherry
      fricking mountains are all used goods

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I'll never understand
      stopped reading right there.
      someone tell me if he waffles about something he has no understanding of for the whole post.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They have gay sex there.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i feel bad you can't understand that feel when you can see out forever and you're on top of some desolate rock. it's all about that feeling, not because you're the first to do it or because there's cool life to see. it's hard to explain but it's a very specific feeling to me, like a lightness in my core and a buzz in my head. i feel "selflessness" or an ego death-ish feeling momentarily and the sound of wind and nothing else envelopes me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like to pretend I'm Ötzi in an alternate reality in which he (I) escaped his (my) killers and is making his way back home.

      Sometimes I wonder what happened to the people he was travelling with, was he even travelling with anyone? Why did they kill him? Were there people on the other side of the mountain waiting for him, people who never knew what happened to him? I miss Ötzi.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >muscular arms
        >zero pec development
        Do paleo gays even lift?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          More than you.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            ...Not them but damn you're moronic

            >muscular arms
            >zero pec development
            Do paleo gays even lift?

            That one was from one of the vegan tribes. They were the first ones to make cave paintings depicting their superiority to the meat eaters.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              heh, y'know the word vegan is derived from the Navajo meaning "poor hunter"

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This photo always brings back a terrible memory I have. I haven't ever told anyone but my family this story but here goes.

    A decade ago while solo hiking in snow for the first time (blue mountains australia) I fricked up stepped into a pile of snow which I thought was solid and slipped down a slope ending up in an ice stream in full gear, maybe a 40lb pack on. I went in head first straight under. The stream was only 3 foot wide but it was a 3 foot drop to actually get into it. I didn't even know it was there and only slid 20m to get into it, it was hidden by its snow capped edges. I quickly threw my body around and when my feet couldn't touch the bottom I started to panic. It was moving fast and I was immediately carried away, it felt like I was in that stream for 2 minutes but I think it was only 10 seconds. Some how I managed to drop my pack and kick up off something back onto the edge and dragged myself back up. After I got out I tore all of my clothes off to my underwear, which took all of my energy
    and ran for the road which was about 1km away and I was very lucky that there were cars there with people pulled over having snow ball fights with their children. So I came bolting over in my underwear and the people had seen what happened to me got me in their car and wedged me between two adult men in the backseat. I remember sitting there and I felt so pleasant and at peace with everything, kind of zoning in and out of the pleasant feelings, then back into the reality that I was almost naked between two men who were rubbing my body and sandwiching me. I lost like 2k worth of gear and have never been back snow hiking.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bullshit the blue mountains ever gets that much snow wtf

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >wedged me between two adult men in the backseat. I remember sitting there and I felt so pleasant and at peace with everything
      dats so gay man

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >then back into the reality that I was almost naked between two men who were rubbing my body and sandwiching me
      kek, nice story anon, sorry for your lost gear, best of luck if you eventually decide to try snow hiking again
      >I remember sitting there and I felt so pleasant and at peace with everything, kind of zoning in and out of the pleasant feelings
      I think this is quite common with both controlled and accidental dangerous cold exposure. Some people have had intense mystical and near-death experiences after falling into icy water.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And you didnt have an iceaxe and practice saving yourself from a slide?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any of you guys like Mt Jefferson? The caps are pretty fun. That medium exposure right?

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That was a nasty mog. Shame shit happens on the Andes and Himalayan too with tourists decked out with all kinds of high end gear and suffering while locals chill casually with an alpaca coat kek.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Frickin easy for them they were born in it, molded by it, they didn't descend past the tree line until they were already men.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    To be fair, whenever you hear about someone getting lost and dying they inevitably look more like the left than the right. And anyone who does winter hiking knows boots and gaiters aren't necessary often but still make things a lot more comfortable and fun. But anyway it's not a competition. I'm outside to appreciate nature, the effort/exercise/challenge is a side effect.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    wtf latoya

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can walk up a glacier with no gear in good conditions.

    That does not mean it is not a moronic thing to do.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. But more importantly that line of people are finishing a longer trek and the woman is just walking a few minutes up the trail to take a picture.

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