Hiking blasphemy

Jon Zucco wrote: Please don't reference my thread. .

Yeah, that was the winner of the century fella. Do you beat off to yourself in the mirror?

'scrambling' is another Brit term I've heard used for any 3rd class rock hike/climb effort. Some equate it to real rock climbing as we know it. Depends I guess on what side of the pond you live.

Randy W. wrote: Yeah, that was the winner of the century fella. Do you beat off to yourself in the mirror?

aw, come on now. I don't mean to make bad blood. It's just that your original post (before you edited it) made this thread seem like one of those pre-designed hate threads. Like you're in some exclusive club because you rock climb and therefore, too cool for hikers.

Look, we're all climbers. And I think we generally all do this for the same reason. So, why not be communal and supportive about it instead of trying to outcast people?

Climbing is climbing, whether it's mountaineering, ice, trad, bouldering, big wall, sport, aid, hiking, tree climbing, radio tower climbing... etc.

Let's not forget the actual definition:

climb-er:
1. A person or animal that climbs.
2. A mountaineer.

Notice it doesn't necessarily specify rock climbing but does in fact make a point to say mountaineering?

here, why don't we see what others have already said in this thread...

Woodchuck ATC wrote:'scrambling' is another Brit term I've heard used for any 3rd class rock hike/climb effort. Some equate it to real rock climbing as we know it. Depends I guess on what side of the pond you live.

Hill walking is basically what most people in the US would call hiking. Sometimes it is strenuous, but most of the time it is just a walk in the woods (or on a "mountain").

Scrambling involves using your hands and depending on the difficulty of the "scramble" it may involve some 4th and easy 5th class moves. There are different grades of scrambles and some are serious. I think it's more popular in the UK because the terrain lends itself very well to this type of thing. It's actually a lot of fun if it's raining too much to climb and you don't have enough money to drink ale all day.

Then we have this thing called "fell running" where people who are tired of doing triathlons and whatnot decide to go and run up and down muddy hills in the mountains in the worst weather they can tolerate. That is not so much fun.

Comversations with sports nuts:

"So what do you do?"
"Sprint triathlons"
"Oh my you're so hard core. I want you"

"What do you do?"
"Mountaineering"
"Oh that's cute." Meh. Public perceptions...

Medic741 wrote:Comversations with sports nuts: "So what do you do?" "Sprint triathlons" "Oh my you're so hard core. I want you" "What do you do?" "Mountaineering" "Oh that's cute." Meh. Public perceptions...

Conversations with climbers:

"What do you do?"
"I'm a doctor."
"Meh."

"What do you do?"
"I live in a van and steel food."
"You're so cool. I want to be you."

Stupid climbers.

ever hang out with a bunch of docs?
holy cow, they all want "the van by the river"

Ryan Williams wrote: Hill walking is basically what most people in the US would call hiking. Sometimes it is strenuous, but most of the time it is just a walk in the woods (or on a "mountain"). Scrambling involves using your hands and depending on the difficulty of the "scramble" it may involve some 4th and easy 5th class moves. There are different grades of scrambles and some are serious. I think it's more popular in the UK because the terrain lends itself very well to this type of thing. It's actually a lot of fun if it's raining too much to climb and you don't have enough money to drink ale all day. Then we have this thing called "fell running" where people who are tired of doing triathlons and whatnot decide to go and run up and down muddy hills in the mountains in the worst weather they can tolerate. That is not so much fun.

And let's not forget that great event where they race a huge wheel of cheese down a steep hill. That's an olympic quality event! Yeaah.