Have you ever climbed a mountain?

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    Bentleyspop said:
    brianlux said:
    Me, 800 year ago seriously thinking about doing this chimney in a pair of worn out old hiking boots.  Who needs fancy shoes anyhow? :lol:




    Looks like you were into some offwidth crack climbing

    Yeah, lots of fun and, oh how I miss those days.  My biggest climbing challenges these days is climbing out of bed.  :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    Does Cadillac Mountain, Mt Washington and Rainer count? Rainer was brutal.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,635
    Get_Right said:
    Does Cadillac Mountain, Mt Washington and Rainer count? Rainer was brutal.
    Rainer is impressive!  Did you do the hike or the climb?  Both are pretty gnarly.  The climb is pretty crazy though.  Congrats.
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,146
    Get_Right said:
    Does Cadillac Mountain, Mt Washington and Rainer count? Rainer was brutal.
    Mount Washington in New Hampshire? I climbed that four times and it was tough.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Get_Right said:
    Does Cadillac Mountain, Mt Washington and Rainer count? Rainer was brutal.
    Rainer is impressive!  Did you do the hike or the climb?  Both are pretty gnarly.  The climb is pretty crazy though.  Congrats.

    The climb. First time with crampons.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,635
    Get_Right said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Get_Right said:
    Does Cadillac Mountain, Mt Washington and Rainer count? Rainer was brutal.
    Rainer is impressive!  Did you do the hike or the climb?  Both are pretty gnarly.  The climb is pretty crazy though.  Congrats.

    The climb. First time with crampons.
    I figured u always needed them up there, hike or climb.  The top is a glacier.

    Very cool.

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,635
    In another life we used to go down in the old mine shafts in cali, nevada and AZ.  We would buy topo maps of areas and go searching for them or if we were driving wed look for large tailings and go there.  We put ourselves in some crazy situations, albeit dumb ones, and are very lucky we lived.

    The shit I could tell you...
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,539
    Spiritual_Chaos said:


    you think any of these would do the job?
    All depends on what you're climbing and your comfort/skill level.
    The Adidas are essentially high top trail runners which can work just as well.
    A lot factors involved...
    Your experience 
    Your comfort level with different shoe types.
    Terrain
    Weather
    Amount of time to be wearing the shoes.
    Breaking in time
    Etc

    You also should look at when and where else you might wear the boots.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    edited March 2024
    tempo_n_groove said:
    In another life we used to go down in the old mine shafts in cali, nevada and AZ.  We would buy topo maps of areas and go searching for them or if we were driving wed look for large tailings and go there.  We put ourselves in some crazy situations, albeit dumb ones, and are very lucky we lived.

    The shit I could tell you...

    There's a mine shaft about 20 minutes south of where we live that has a sign that warns that entering too far into the mine can create asphyxiation and death.  Is that common?
    Back around 1974, a friend and co-worker and I went down to the Mojave desert and rode motor cycles out around this area where we were camping.  At one point, I saw an unmarked gaping hole right in from of me and managed to stop just in time.  I think it was probably an old mine shaft.  I tossed a rock down into it and never heard it hit bottom. Scarred the crap out of me.

    Caves can be risky as well. A buddy of back in around '72 was given directions to a cave in the Santa Cruz mountains.  It was hard to find and not close to the only small road nearby.  We went way the hell down into this cave through all kinds of twists and turns and then both of our flashlights became low on batteries.  Did we young idiots bring extras?  Noooo!  We reached this one spot that our dim lights showed us went straight downward.  Again, tossed a rock down there and never heard it hit bottom.  We turned around and we went different way.  After crawling for God know how long we eventually saw a speck of light and found out way out.   
    I also nearly fell off high cliffs on two occasions.  And I've had other close call in various situations.  I guess you could say I've been lucky. 

    EDIT:  I will say this though:  Writer James Bishop Jr. said, "Many of today's arm chair born-again environmentalists like to portray nature as a peaceful, idyllic experience in contrast to  the brutal harshness of urban America. ...[but] the natural order is not peaceful or safe, but independent and sometimes violent, with a rhythmic harmony of conflict and death..."   Sometimes getting out there in nature is dangerous and, yes, sometimes when I was young I did it in ways that were not the smartest, but getting out and doing it for me have been the most real moments of my life.  So much of the rest of life is necessary drudgery, or superfluous and amusing. 
    Post edited by brianlux on
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,862
    Old friend fell off a cliff in Utah. Some reason I always thought he jumped. Unfairly. He prob just slipped. I stay the f away from situations like that.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    Loujoe said:
    Old friend fell off a cliff in Utah. Some reason I always thought he jumped. Unfairly. He prob just slipped. I stay the f away from situations like that.

    Yeah, I knew a kid in high school had the same thing happen.  Hugely sad to lose someone that way, especially that young.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,593
    Someone tripping and falling back in 2002, is why they put up the "via ferrata" at the peak I'm going up to (if you are going up the route that demands some light "climbing)"


    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,862
    Yes. I'm sure you will be careful and have a great time. Looks fantastic. Thx for sharing.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,392
    Darby Allin, AEW wrestler, was suppose to climb Mt. Everest in a week but had to postpone his climb cause he broke his foot on Wednesday during a wrestling match.


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  • go pre
    go pre Posts: 671
    I didn’t make it to the top, but I hiked up Mt. Rainier to Camp Muir on the off day between the Home Shows. Living in Wisconsin, I don’t get a lot of opportunities to do hikes like that. It was pretty awesome.
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,635
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    In another life we used to go down in the old mine shafts in cali, nevada and AZ.  We would buy topo maps of areas and go searching for them or if we were driving wed look for large tailings and go there.  We put ourselves in some crazy situations, albeit dumb ones, and are very lucky we lived.

    The shit I could tell you...

    There's a mine shaft about 20 minutes south of where we live that has a sign that warns that entering too far into the mine can create asphyxiation and death.  Is that common?
    Back around 1974, a friend and co-worker and I went down to the Mojave desert and rode motor cycles out around this area where we were camping.  At one point, I saw an unmarked gaping hole right in from of me and managed to stop just in time.  I think it was probably an old mine shaft.  I tossed a rock down into it and never heard it hit bottom. Scarred the crap out of me.

    Caves can be risky as well. A buddy of back in around '72 was given directions to a cave in the Santa Cruz mountains.  It was hard to find and not close to the only small road nearby.  We went way the hell down into this cave through all kinds of twists and turns and then both of our flashlights became low on batteries.  Did we young idiots bring extras?  Noooo!  We reached this one spot that our dim lights showed us went straight downward.  Again, tossed a rock down there and never heard it hit bottom.  We turned around and we went different way.  After crawling for God know how long we eventually saw a speck of light and found out way out.   
    I also nearly fell off high cliffs on two occasions.  And I've had other close call in various situations.  I guess you could say I've been lucky. 

    EDIT:  I will say this though:  Writer James Bishop Jr. said, "Many of today's arm chair born-again environmentalists like to portray nature as a peaceful, idyllic experience in contrast to  the brutal harshness of urban America. ...[but] the natural order is not peaceful or safe, but independent and sometimes violent, with a rhythmic harmony of conflict and death..."   Sometimes getting out there in nature is dangerous and, yes, sometimes when I was young I did it in ways that were not the smartest, but getting out and doing it for me have been the most real moments of my life.  So much of the rest of life is necessary drudgery, or superfluous and amusing. 
    So yeah that was stupid Brian!  lol  You were lucky to get out of there.  Once u have your flashlights gone there is no way to see.  I'm surprised you both got out without falling or getting hurt.  

    We always had a group of 2 and if your flashlight was going you got out. We would rip the sleeve off our shirts and use it as a mask for breathing as we would kick up silt and dust sometimes.  

    So asphyxiation?  Not that I know of and I'm still here.  We have had professional tunnel diggers/miners and park rangers tell us the dangers of the mine shafts but never listened.  We were very experienced but if there was ever a cave in or what not, we would have been toast.

    We went to one huge mine shaft in Nevada and in one area there was a nasty chemical smell.  That was the one time we were ever worried that we might lose air.  We went into gold and silver mines so we weren't worried about gasses and lack of oxygen that was common in coal mines.

    One thing we would look for also is the harder to get in the more cool things were left in them.  Easy mines are just that, easy.  Everyone could walk in them so nothing good was ever in them.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,862
    What'd you find?
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,635
    Loujoe said:
    What'd you find?
    Dynamite crates, dynamite sticks, what was left of it.  It wasn't "sweating" like the movies it was dried out and disappeared, old bottles, blasting cap tins, old levis, cigarette tins, ore carts, model T ford(that's a good story) and sometimes bits of newspapers.  We found a paper that mentioned Lincoln and a bunch that had sports scores w Ruth and Gherig.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    Cool stories. I envy those of you that live in beautiful places and have the opportunities to get outside. I am in New York about 30 miles north of the city. It has great schools for the kids and is beautiful in its own way, think of a Ralph Lauren ad or where all the people drive Range Rovers, wear Barbour quilted jackets, and Hunter boots September to May. We have the Adirondacks and New England but its not like out West.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,635
    edited March 2024
    Get_Right said:
    Cool stories. I envy those of you that live in beautiful places and have the opportunities to get outside. I am in New York about 30 miles north of the city. It has great schools for the kids and is beautiful in its own way, think of a Ralph Lauren ad or where all the people drive Range Rovers, wear Barbour quilted jackets, and Hunter boots September to May. We have the Adirondacks and New England but its not like out West.
    West chester or The Commons??

    Edit: Have you ever tried Harriman State Park?  Some pretty damn good hiking trails up there.
    Post edited by tempo_n_groove on

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