I got unreasonably irritated watching streamers play PEAK.
They’ll have one teammate that’s hungry, injured, and has 8 diseases, and still be running/leaping ahead to the next obstacle with all ears/eyes turned firmly away from their friend. Their sum concern is to get midway up and spout “Where is Mike? OH NO I’LL SAVE YOU! Oh no, they’re dead, well I will get them at the revival statue! (and then immediately forget them again)”
Or just hike with naturalists and then you’ll always be the fastest
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.
Sure but every time you stop they’re going to have a new berry, leaf, or bit of bark for you to taste. (It’s me, I’m the one handing you forest treats)
uh, we use that word with a slightly different meaning out here. naturalist enclave is synonymous with nudist colony is synonymous with active adult community
Usually that’s “naturist”
I’m the fast one in great shape, I’m always at the end of the line of the people I take hiking because they’ll set the pace rather than me so that I can’t accidentally let them fall behind.
I also have a rule that if anyone on the trip says that we’re done and need to turn back, we do.
It is the way.
Smells like alpine divorce.
My ex did this to me. I got heat stroke and she left me behind on the mountain. Wanted to get back to the truck for cell service cuz addicted to phone and didn’t want to wait for me.
I spent hours sitting by an alpine stream filtering and drinking water and I ended up hiking out in the dark while occasionally projectile vomiting. It’s the first time and only time I thought about pressing my garmin SOS button.
And the only reason I got sick was because I was on new medication that killed my heat tolerance I was pushing myself too hard to keep up to her to fend off the incoming conflict. Was being called “out of shape” and “unhealthy” the entire ascent. If I was alone I would have taken it slow and never ended up in this situation.
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.
In the summer, we go running in the woods but my brother is faster than me and I don’t want to deprive him from a full run so we just set a time back at the car and I turn halftime. We end up slow jogging the last few hundred meters together.
Depending on the context of the hike you can split in 2 groups and do something similar.
nah, i carry the big purse. they’d be lost without me
And better bring bear spray
If they leave me alone in the woods, I become more terrifying than a bear.
„Ah shit, I thought you said beer spray”
