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Post by thunderhawk on Aug 22, 2019 14:45:10 GMT -6
So I'm on top of a 14er last week and this dude pulls out an IPA. Good idea bro. A super hoppy brew at 14K ft is just gonna do wonders for your impending altitude sickness. This wasn't a terribly dangerous summit, relatively speaking, but it was a taxing climb, and the descent is when most people get fucked up, as you've got gravity exacerbating the situation. On another more exposed summit (we're talking thousand foot dropoffs if you wander off the edge,) I get to chatting with this dude who informs me that maybe this isn't such a good idea, as he's terrified of heights. Well, just focus on the next step, I told him. I assume he made it down safely. I mean more power to him for the immersion therapy, but Christ Almighty. Climbing mountains and exposing yourself to all of the variables of an alpine environment is dangerous enough when you're not fucking around or irrationally terrified. I'm never surprised when I read of people falling to their deaths taking selfies. Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. I have no idea how the hell you do that. I hike out here, but the Blue Ridge and Smokies are way eroded, trails are wide and the horrifying drop-offs are few and far between. I hiked some island summit at Crater Lake and the thing was only like 750 feet up from the lakeshore where we started, but the damned trail was maybe 2 feet wide in a lot of parts with 100+ foot dropoffs. I got horrible vertigo, but then I got vertigo at Arrowhead as well. We Iowa folk are not built of the stock to climb that sort of shit. Your ancestors must have been elites from near the Alps and not lowland dirt farmers. I've been doing this shit for over 20 years and I still feel like I'm getting sucked off the side of the mountain when negotiating a route with vertical drop-offs. It's some evolutionary self-preservation nugget buried deep in the reptilian brain. Sharpens the senses for sure. I suppose over time muscle memory or something of the kind takes over and you kind of block out the situations that are less treacherous. I've been on some "you fuck up, you die" terrain and I see that shit in my dreams sometimes.
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Post by egadsto on Aug 23, 2019 9:13:45 GMT -6
I have no idea how the hell you do that. I hike out here, but the Blue Ridge and Smokies are way eroded, trails are wide and the horrifying drop-offs are few and far between. I hiked some island summit at Crater Lake and the thing was only like 750 feet up from the lakeshore where we started, but the damned trail was maybe 2 feet wide in a lot of parts with 100+ foot dropoffs. I got horrible vertigo, but then I got vertigo at Arrowhead as well. We Iowa folk are not built of the stock to climb that sort of shit. Your ancestors must have been elites from near the Alps and not lowland dirt farmers. I've been doing this shit for over 20 years and I still feel like I'm getting sucked off the side of the mountain when negotiating a route with vertical drop-offs. It's some evolutionary self-preservation nugget buried deep in the reptilian brain. Sharpens the senses for sure. I suppose over time muscle memory or something of the kind takes over and you kind of block out the situations that are less treacherous. I've been on some "you fuck up, you die" terrain and I see that shit in my dreams sometimes.
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Post by Stan's Field on Sept 7, 2019 19:18:47 GMT -6
I just got back from a quick run out to Buffalo/Sheridan just for the fuck of it. Weather was nicer than Iowa. Just fucked off and went to places we like.
I'm going to start a cult out there some day....
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Post by Presidential Immunity Cock on Sept 7, 2019 20:02:18 GMT -6
Just got back from a fun family vacation on Mexico. Good news is that nobody searches a 3 year old diaper for weed. Otherwise we would have had to smoke shit weed in Mexico and fuck that shit.
But kids did good on the flights and played a bunch and we got drunk.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Sept 9, 2019 9:48:36 GMT -6
Just got back from a fun family vacation on Mexico. Good news is that nobody searches a 3 year old diaper for weed. Otherwise we would have had to smoke shit weed in Mexico and fuck that shit. But kids did good on the flights and played a bunch and we got drunk. This dude from Oregon who I took to the stock car race last weekend brought some edibles. He was shocked when I drank a dozen and a half Busch Lights and ate three of his candies and was totally functional.
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Post by Ginger on Sept 9, 2019 11:31:51 GMT -6
Just got back from a fun family vacation on Mexico. Good news is that nobody searches a 3 year old diaper for weed. Otherwise we would have had to smoke shit weed in Mexico and fuck that shit. But kids did good on the flights and played a bunch and we got drunk. This dude from Oregon who I took to the stock car race last weekend brought some edibles. He was shocked when I drank a dozen and a half Busch Lights and ate three of his candies and was totally functional. Explain “functional”. Two stoners and one thinking the other is doing pretty good? And Busch lights? Come on man! How many white claws would that be?
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Post by Stan's Field on Sept 9, 2019 17:36:50 GMT -6
It doesn't count if you pass out before they take hold..
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Sept 10, 2019 11:39:10 GMT -6
This dude from Oregon who I took to the stock car race last weekend brought some edibles. He was shocked when I drank a dozen and a half Busch Lights and ate three of his candies and was totally functional. Explain “functional”. Two stoners and one thinking the other is doing pretty good? And Busch lights? Come on man! How many white claws would that be? 18 Busch Lights = 5 White Claws
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Post by A boy named Sioux on Sept 10, 2019 11:45:56 GMT -6
Explain “functional”. Two stoners and one thinking the other is doing pretty good? And Busch lights? Come on man! How many white claws would that be? 18 Busch Lights = 5 White Claws I assume that is the exchange rate due to the current white claw shortage?
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Post by thunderhawk on Sept 12, 2019 11:51:25 GMT -6
18 Busch Lights = 5 White Claws I assume that is the exchange rate due to the current white claw shortage? BLEXIT
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