Dude I'm on the cusp, I drafted an insta story earlier today to ask everyone I know if they'd be interested in learning mountaineering with me to tackle some mountains in the Cascades
I'm afraid to press send bc I'm scared this is a slippery slope to dying in a bad fall
Start reading Accidents in North American Climbing. They publish annually. See how you feel after reading it. I wouldn't recommend being a "travel" mountaineer - it's something you do continually or not. Skills and fitness get rusty quick. The risk of death is real. I have almost died in the mountains on two separate occasions.
Appalachia is good too, Asheville/Brevard are right in the mountains and like 10 minutes from Pisgah Forest, DuPont Forest, the AT, the Mountain to Sea, and Art Loeb.
All those trails are more forest heavy and the traversal isn't that bad. I know people who will just go out for a week and come back.
move to Seattle and take up mountaineering
Dude I'm on the cusp, I drafted an insta story earlier today to ask everyone I know if they'd be interested in learning mountaineering with me to tackle some mountains in the Cascades
I'm afraid to press send bc I'm scared this is a slippery slope to dying in a bad fall
Start reading Accidents in North American Climbing. They publish annually. See how you feel after reading it. I wouldn't recommend being a "travel" mountaineer - it's something you do continually or not. Skills and fitness get rusty quick. The risk of death is real. I have almost died in the mountains on two separate occasions.
Appalachia is good too, Asheville/Brevard are right in the mountains and like 10 minutes from Pisgah Forest, DuPont Forest, the AT, the Mountain to Sea, and Art Loeb.
All those trails are more forest heavy and the traversal isn't that bad. I know people who will just go out for a week and come back.
Most people don't die and the ones that fall don't usually regret it for very long
Obviously there are things you can do to reduce the risks