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greenonion wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:26 pm
Your spouse is more patient and understanding than you’ll ever really realize
Alternatively, even your most distant relatives finally quit asking when you’re going to bring someone home for the holidays after your repeated explanations that you’re already married to the mountains and have neither the time nor the inclination for an affair.
Or when you open first dates with a disclaimer that the mountains will always come first, working out for the mountains will always come second, and weekends are all already booked from May through October, non-flexible.
Wonder why there aren't many second dates...
The days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.
…hiking in jeans and a cotton shirt is reckless and stupid, but scrambling unprotected up a rock face where you're one slip away from injury/death is just considered "exposure" (bonus points if there's snow and you're wearing crampons/trusting your life to a few tiny steel points).
...you sneak out of happy hour cuz you have to climb in the morning.
...you prefer parking at Auraria campus for a Rockies game.
...and you take the stairs instead of the escalators.
...you bring nothing on a hike with friends because its ONLY a few miles.
...you think you can beat your coworkers down from the 12th floor by taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
...women in makeup look really weird.
- I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was blaming you.
...your toilet paper flushing mechanism is a Bic lighter (above treeline only of course!)
...a top priority on mountain trips becomes figuring out where and how the restroom occurs above 11k feet in broad daylight
(Maybe this should be its own thread. I’ve either rid myself completely of any future 14er.com hiking partners or endeared them due to sympathetic reasons)
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susanjoypaul wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 10:34 am
All the trails are closed due to a pandemic and you don't even care 'cause where you're going, you don't need trails.
