Hiking at altitude = "dude is this what getting old feels like?"
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe look for a ridge trail that would give you great views but not too much intense up/down?
― tehresa, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
afaik ppls adverse responses to high altitude are pretty unpredictable if youre talking about real problems like altitude sickness (headaches or pulmonary edema). the cure of going down is pretty reliable. as far as the increased difficulty of exertion, yeah, it just IS. you can try to acclimate for a day or two which may help avoid altitude sickness, but it wont help you make red blood cells in time for your hike. you'll get fatigued faster than youre used to.
theres a bazillion hikes well below 14000 ft, which is as high as you can go here, right?
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
when you say go big, do you mean a 14er, or just, hiking in rmnp? cause the 14er in rmnp is not really considered the easiest. the easiest one is quandary peak right next to breckenridge. the east ridge is a long gradual walkup.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
By big I kinda just mean being surrounded by a bunch of really tall mountains--not that I necessarily have to climb one all the way to the tippy-top. I'm a view (and food)-driven hiker, so a smaller and or shorter hike with a great view is perfectly fine by me. However I do like to avoid crowds and that has sometimes meant choosing a longer but less-travelled route.
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
what the fuck am I doing with my life― how rad bandit (gbx), Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― how rad bandit (gbx), Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ahahaha, otm
― spergliacci (cankles), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Def take it eeeeasy for a while.
― how rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I mean usually I make fun of mountains with roads leading to summit (see: Whiteface in Adirondacks, Cadillac in Acadia NP) but in this case it might be kind of handy for the swamp dwellers.
― quincie, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i want a car i want to go hike RIGHT NOW
― ms. thighs (tehresa), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah but you'll still feel shitty at the top. IMO I'd stay away from the heights until just normal activity feels ok
I drove up to 11k outside Santa fe after being there for only a day and just walking across the parking lot was like damn
went skiin at Taos four days later tho and it was ok
― how rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah my colca ridge hike was somehting i'd normally consider a walk but it definitely winded us! and that was after a few days in arequipa and then a night at higher elevation.
― ms. thighs (tehresa), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i walked up whiteface by myself, didn't see anyone all the way up and when you get to the top there's like *a crowd*. it is pretty funny.
― Peepoop Patel (harbl), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
well, i mean you can drive trail ridge road in rmnp up to 12k, so that will be nice too. you will not lack for options...
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funniest automobile "summit" imo: clingman's dome, srsly.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
guys i went hiking on wednesday and nothing went as planned and i ended up camping in the freezing backwoods at 6,000ft+ and was probably the highest up sleeping person in East Tennessee afaict! my face is really red today. vvvvv close encounter with a young bear who did not give an F about us, also all water was frozen and could not be drunk. hung out on this which made everything worth it:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_VMkLA7HBHmA/R56FWRRU0II/AAAAAAAACyE/DazPUpT5ppg/CIMG1432.JPG
that's charlie's bunion. kickass hike if you ever make it out here, but do it in apr-oct!
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
(nb that's where i've been and why ayovember has not been up to snuff the past 2 days, haw)
that picture is A++++
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds scary. I am glad you're OK and yeah, that pic is beautiful.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit that looks awesome but ugh cold and dehydrated not so good.
― quincie, Friday, 6 November 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome, em!
i'm doing little si tomorrow morning. only a short hike, but at least i am going somewhere!
― tehresa, Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
beautiful. in tn i hiked ramsay cascades in gsmnp on a midweek 95deg/95%humid day with my pops and some family. very few people that day, fantastic falls at the top.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ive never been to ramsay cascades, amazingly.
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
did you plan to camp there, or was it an emergency thing because it got too dark to finish the hike?
― I Endorse He-Horse (ytth), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
no, we planned to camp further up actually (on Mount LeConte!), but it got too dark to go up the really rocky parts. we had no idea how cold it would be.
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
the weirdly memorable thing about our hike to ramsay cascades was that it was maybe a coupla days after all of the rhododendrons had dropped their blossoms. it seemed like the we walked half the way on this runner of flowers.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Saturday, 7 November 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
any hiking in the rain tips? i suppose i'll take a dry shirt or something in a plastic bag inside my pack?is this going to be a terrible disaster? i don't think rain is avoidable at all tomorrow, but i have lots of layers...
― tehresa, Saturday, 7 November 2009 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link
take lots of clean socks in a ziploc! you will love yourself. and wear a poncho over your pack
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
ended up not going at all bc of thunderstorms :(rain i can deal with but lightning is ehhhhh.i'm a wimp.
― tehresa, Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
no you are smart
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Sunday, 8 November 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, mr. que. feeling kinda frustrated at not getting any mountains. i went back to bed at 6:15 and when i got up again the weather was really nice (here) so i don't know, maybe i freaked out for nothing :(
― tehresa, Sunday, 8 November 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i was trying to post "no, you are just smart" to this thread 100x and it wouldnt let me
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
we sound so retarded here, blame hypothermia, but here is the bear i met
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nogDb2z1YGg
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 November 2009 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ me saying its just like a dog
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Monday, 9 November 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
haha awesome. what is he eating anyways?
― George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 9 November 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
omg!
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Monday, 9 November 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
justine was watching that video this morning, and i thought it was from the "oh shit a bear" thread - eg: two people with a digital camera get mauled by bear, etc. knowing that it was roxy and friend doing the filming, i'm glad that's not the case.
― I Endorse He-Horse (ytth), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i think he might be foraging for bugs
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Friday, 13 November 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
video captures the wtf-ness of wildlife encounters really well, so great
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Friday, 13 November 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
were you really that close or was the camera zoomed in?
― tehresa, Friday, 13 November 2009 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It was zoomed in, but we were quite close. I could not have reached out and touched him, but I could have taken one step and done so.
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Friday, 13 November 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
damn. i would not do that. dont wanna end up like chimp lady
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Friday, 13 November 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
planning a toadtrip next week from knoxville to nyc and considering hiking the highest mountains in each state on the way there and back -- kind of a cool idea imo
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
imHo
awesome idea!
― tehresa, Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
even new york?????
― harbl, Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
mount marcy? child's play
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
will u do mitchell?
― tehresa, Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.carolinamtnclub.com/SB6K/SB6K%20Index.html
The South Beyond 6000 is an organized program to encourage hikers to climb the 40 peaks over 6000 feet in the Southern Appalachians. The privilege of belonging is earned and can only be shared among those who have pushed onward and upward on foot to the tops of these peaks. The Tennessee Eastman Hiking and Canoeing Club started this program after they had studied similar concepts used in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the Adirondack Mountains in New York.
you should get in on this imo
― tehresa, Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i will have done 12 of those by the end of this year iirc!!
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
2. Climb all 40 peaks by routes involving hiking at least 5 miles with an ascent of at least 500 feet. In many cases, roads come close to the summits, and the return trip may be made by auto. However, where descent by trail is specified, return trip must be made on foot.
weak sauce
― tehresa, Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
so that's why clingman's dome isn't included
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link