Smells like alpine divorce.
When hiking you always go at the slowest hikers pace.
Nah, you go your own pace and then stop at every fork, intersection, and overlook, and let everybody catch up before moving on.
Pet peeve of mine. Almost everyone who does this is like “oh hey you finally caught up!” and then immediately starts walking again. Leading to a situation where the people who are in good shape are constantly taking breaks, and the people who are out of shape never get a break and get more and more tired and slow all day
They can rest at the next overlook
Then you are keeping to their pace.
Ah, I see. We’re normalizing it over the course of time spent hiking. I was thinking too simplistically, in an atomized moment-by-moment sort of way
Then they’re out of breath when they catch you and you’ve rested up
but yes I do this too
So pop a squat and let them breathe for a moment. That’s what overlooks are for. Snack time.
Or just hike with naturalists and then you’ll always be the fastest
Yes.
lol. My sister is a botanist. She tells the story of a team that went out on a study hike. At noon they stopped and one of them gasped, “Oh, no. I left my lunch in the car.” They turned around and laughed when they saw they were only 100 meters away.
I really don’t get this. I’ve never been on a hiking trip where someone thinks they are participating in Tour de France or some shit.
The unacknowledged competition so many people express when walking with other people. I fucking hate that. If you want to walk with me walk with me and don’t be a dick when I’m a bit slower. You can control your speed, you just don’t want to, or don’t respect me enough to do so. Fine, go on ahead, and I’ll go home.
Bitch I’m the one out front AND I got the car keys AND the only charged phone, better keep up.
It doesn’t seem like you want company, I’ll go with someone else.
What I want is to get to the top of this next hill and nothing, not even my creaking knees, is gonna stop me. I’ll see you huffing and puffing up 15 minutes later and let you rest for 5 before continuing the relentless pursuit of a mind numbed by pain and motion.
This is also fanfiction written by a puma.
And better bring bear spray
