Any climbers/mountaineers?????

[Hazard]

I was doing some bouldering for a while..... loved it. I like difficult hiking and stuff like that but i've never done anything remotely close to what you do LOL - i'd love to tho!

~Haz~

[Justsayno]

I was doing some bouldering for a while..... loved it. I like difficult hiking and stuff like that but i've never done anything remotely close to what you do LOL - i'd love to tho!

~Haz~

Thats sweet, I used to compete in bouldering competitions a lot. You would be amazed at some of the bodies climbers have without touching a weight in the gym. You look like you're built for bouldering. High alititude mountaineering or extreme alpinism is mostly mental but it certainly doesn't hurt to be built like a dumptruck (you). On Denali we had 90lb gear packs and pulled 50 pound food sleds behind us uphill all day for 19 days. Squats, Squats and more squats. I lost 30 pounds in 3 weeks and I was eating prolly 5kcals, mostly fat. Its amazing what altitude acclimation can do you to, when we came down off the mountain I went for a run in town (I dropped from 21000 feet to 1000 feet in 3 days) and I was running so hard and barely evening breathing it felt so cool.

[lifeforce0019]

I have done Shasta and Whitney by the mountaineers route. Next up Mount Raineer. Denali is a dream of mine. But the weather is a crap shoot. Took a colleague three attempts before mother nature cooperated! Good luck!

[Justsayno]

I have done Shasta and Whitney by the mountaineers route. Next up Mount Raineer. Denali is a dream of mine. But the weather is a crap shoot. Took a colleague three attempts before mother nature cooperated! Good luck!

Haha yeah, Denali is notorious for the most horrible weather on the planet and from my experience it deserves that reputation, I sat at highcamp stuck in my tent for 4 days straight, the blizzard was so bad we had to dig our tent out all night every night every hour because it would collapse under the weight of the snow. Getting out of your sleeping bag when the windchill was -85f at night to put your cold wet shit on to go outside took massive willpower, I would sit there and try to pretend the tent wasn't collapsing. Altitude really zaps your motivation to move. I remember taking a long drink out of my nalgene would cause me to hyperventilate for 30 seconds trying to catch my breath. Mountaineering kicks ass, people who don't get it only see it as suffering