#covid hikes

[sealbuffed]

hikin' in tha beautiful coloradie mount'uns

#south park #south park post covid #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #stan x kyle #south park style #i love red rocks colorado #it's been getting warmer here (well sometimes i live in buffalo ny so its 70 one day and snowing the next) #but it's making me think about when i visited denver for a NIN show and gaawwwddd oh my god #i wanna hike there so bad. RIGHT NOW!

[lowwasteorbustanut]

Just remembered an important point about the low waste community.

Don’t forget disabled people.

I am disabled, and so will never truly be 100% zero waste. My pill bottles aren’t recyclable in the everyday containers, I have to wait for a special recycle event that the county puts on.

One of my meds is a biological self injection. Obvs that goes in a sharps container to be disposed of safely. The single use alcohol wipes I have to use before injecting myself are also trash.

And I wear glasses! Which means as I wear a (washable fabric) mask, as an immunocompromised person to help protect me from covid, I need to use single use anti fog wipes.

But all of these things are necessary for my survival! I literally cannot survive without these things.

So remember to include disabled people in your talks about the zero waste lifestyle. And that some people can NEVER completely eliminate their waste, and that’s ok!

Because human life matters above all else. And there is nothing an individual can do to reverse climate change.

There need to be laws to regulate the companies that got us here. So remember to vote! And communicate with your representatives about what you want to see! And to treat people with kindness!

#disabled #literally I need my meds to survive #and it’s not like I’m thriving with them #my meds just get me to ‘ok’ #and ‘not actively dying’ #not like I can go on a 5 mile hike #or lift weights #please be kind #spoonie #sustainability #low waste #zero waste #climate change #climate action #covid #and wear a mask

[writhe]

jumped into a freezing lake today with friends

#i was the last one in bc i almost didn’t go bc i’m feeling Bad #and i made everyone laugh! #and then i bought my housemate sushi and ice cream bc she’s in the throes of finals #and she and my other housemate sent out their wedding invited today and it was joyous #i got up at 5 did a delivery shift tried to get vaxxed (no walk ins on weekends) #got groceries and then napped and then went to the lake #went home dried off and hiked with frank #and now i am at franks house and we’ll have dinner and take it easy #i wish i could go out but feeling too nervous about covid and too weird for the big world right now #i walked 6 miles again today!

[veradune]

I randomly saw your post about covid hikers and I feel it. I don't do climbing, I do desert/scrubland backpacking in Texas, but a lot of new outdoors people don't respect that you can literally die. They don't take it seriously enough. It drives me fucking crazy

Right?? I've been hiking, scrambling and backpacking since 2011, I'm also a terrible (indoor) climber and aware of it lmao.

It took me over a decade to gradually get to the level where i can do moderate scrambles and I find it buckwild that many of the COVID hikers are doing difficult 'fall and die' routes after 2-3 years. There's one group I know that's especially bad, their first winter they were packing avalanche beacons (with zero training) back into narrow valleys under slide slopes on snowshoe trips. They follow a guy who read online how to build a rope anchor and from what I have seen on easy trails, he will blindly follow an AllTrails track even it's clearly wrong. He goes on and on about how his slings can hold up a truck but I'm going DUDE WHAT ARE YOU ATTACHING THE SLING TO???

I'm trying to pinpoint what happened and I think there's always been stupid hikers (heck I've absolutely been one) but there were an abnormal number of sociable type A personalities who got into hiking when they were forced to sit still during the lockdowns and they're now all wildly enabling one another. It seems like in the before times, the hikers were more likely to be oddballs and introverted types which somewhat limited the mania and competition I'm now seeing.

#anyways rant over #BIG MOOD ANON thanks for the msg #the COVID boom in the backcountry ain't sustainable and I wish people would chill #yyc #alberta #i'm lucky my stupid hikes didn't involve cliffs #the craziest dude i knew circa 2016 who had a reputation in my club for risky behavior was pushing it with moderate s5/s6 scrambles

[anglerflsh]

NO OFFENSE BUT IM GONNA KILL YOUR PARENTS. I DONT MEAN THIS IN A THREATENING WAY I MEAN THIS IN A "WOW THESE PEOPLE ARE SHITTY TO YOU" -🧠

could be worse! I could have to walk more instead of just sleeping on some rocks until they come get me 👍

#worry not im pretty sure the danger of dogs was a joke. And if it isnt its not the first time I have to run from sheep dogs #my father likes to cut through pastures often when he hike so I am quite good at spotting a dog and running far #[.asks] #anonymous #my nose /is/ bleeding but thtas unrelated to me probably having covid #girl i need on god to learn to type on a phonr i cannot keep doing this

[swear2g-d]

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#going back to arizona would fix me #i'm not built for heat but i would suffer gladly if it meant i could stay forever and hike with my friends #it was so beautiful there #every day i wake up and miss sedona #i travelled so much pre-covid. i just want my life back. i feel so stuck here

[plexippusangel]

I either need to accept that I am just a way stronger person than this friend and can handle way more while still being able to engage with the world as a person, or recognize excuses as excuses, accept that I am not valued and be done or. Maybe both. Idk. It might be somewhere between the two. I am just sick of regular life stuff rendering him unable to spend any time with me, and of him being unable to bear any of the details of my life, when I would move mountains to rekindle our friendship. Though I'm starting to wonder if I still would.

#faer personal files #i just. really didn't want officiating his wedding to be our last hurrah of friendship even though i did kind of feel it coming #also i'm really sick of being infantilized for my chronic fatigue i am a grown adult and i know what i'm capable of #ugh. maybe i'm just being awful and not understanding in which case i'm too much of a rancid person to be his friend i guess #but i don't think that's the case #idk i'll never forget when i couldn't see this dude for a year even masked up outside for covid but when another of our old friends came up #from her job doing COVID RELATED CROWD CONTROL FOR THE FUCKING ARMY he went on a hike with her mask off #and i think that says a lot about what our friendship's been for years honestly. if he can't bear my company idk why i try #if i'm just an interesting prop for conversations and occasions but not a friend. i can't accept that #i am an interesting prop for conversations. the disabled genderfluid bisexual genius who lost everything bc of said disability #but i didn't lose everything i just have to fucking rebuild on new ground. and i am doing that. i whine on occasion but i am so strong #and i do know how to interact with people without traumadumping i haven't on him in YEARS but his concept of me crystalized at age 21 #or something like that i guess. idk it just breaks my heart #bc for a long time he was my person. he was the only person who knew the authentic me. more even than my sisters at times. #and yeah that was a little unhealthy but at the time he craved that!!! #and then i grew up and stopped needing him like that around the same time he stopped wanting that and it should have been fucking fine #but like. even senior year of college when i was sick it was already starting to fall apart #like i remember being on a small hike once being exhausted and jokingly being like you gotta carry me back and then being like #no really i might actually need an arm to lean on by the end of this walk if i'm gonna make it back to the car i really don't know if i can #and he said no bc he didn't want to look straight. who the fuck CARES??? i could barely walk i was stumbling my way back annoying him going #too slow. fuck. and that really has been what our friendship has been for years. the minute my house wasn't the most convenient place it wa #more or less dead idk why i keep dragging this horse around #idk why i keep letting him break my heart like this it's so stupid he's never gonna care about me like he did when i was quick and brillian #but never quite as smart as him in his view. fuck him. i'm smarter. just bc i was a little gullible or paranoid at times bc of the #FUCKING CPTSD doesn't mean i was dumber than him. the fuck??? there's something wrong with me i swear idk why i hang on #anyway i'm irritated. but i'm also reluctant to throw away somebody who's seen me through key points in my life. so.

[freddyfreeman]

Feel like I’ve reached the final level of chronic illness gaslighting since my mother told me that maybe my 150-170 HR was due to chronic wasting, because and I quote “you don’t move”

#like that is not normal for me and what’s she’s saying is not even true #i went on a hike yesterday. but yk tell yourself whatever the fuck you want to believe #to absolve yourself of the fact that maybe you gave me covid #i’m so done lmfao #personal #dude i gotta get out of here

[pierog]

so i applied for a DREAM JOB and out of 6000 applicants!!! I ended up in the final 15 😟

…and I did SOOOOO soooooo well til the very last round 😔 i accidentally became privy to some scathing information from the judging panel. ouuuuuuuchhhh lol my insecurities.

proud of myself for being true to myself and getting far as i did, though.

#also i got covid so feeling a bit self pitying at the moment #i honestly have massive beef with their criticisms #i left this country when i was 5 and have ended up with a lot of cultural differences #sorry English ppl reading this but i feel like the UK is very caught up on appearances. for example: #it’s an outdoorsy job and the panel were unimpressed i didn’t come in my hiking boots + wet weather gear #umm…. yeah because we are SITTING INSIDE ON A SUMMER’S DAY??? #it felt like posing to me? i grew up in rural NZ so I’ve spent majority of my life in the bush #PS most of the hiking boots i did see were obviously pristine and never taken on an actual hike 🙄 #yes i own that stuff. no im not gonna wear it just to prove a point. i wore jeans and the same shoes ive been wearing while hiking across #europe these last 2 months. #also the NZ wilderness is so much more rugged like these hikes in UK/europe would barely count as a casual day walk to me #so our standards are very different #and we both left feeling quite unimpressed with each other I think #i’ll provide one more rant: one of the exercises involved wiring up a plug. i did it successfully but failed cos I didn’t plug it in after #well um. my mama is a scientist and taught me not to fuck with electricity unless i’m 100% sure #yes I did all the wiring right but it was still my first time so I’m being cautious. apparently that’s a bad thing 🤷‍♀️ #enough rants from me but basically yeah lots of little things like that which I disagree with

[avoiltaire]

all crimson hands on the dreamer's red deck

flower after flower, spray after spray, a faceful of blood, things he would never, ever be able to wash off his slate.

even in his dreams, he never stopped to forget.

number five, the umbrella academy, aggie.io, chromebook + stylus, 2 weeks?

#the umbrella academy #STOP I FINISHED THIS WHILE COUHHING MY HEAD OFF WITH COVID #i actually kinda like it #his face is a little wonky but thats fine #blood is so fun to paint?? #look i know we've never seen hm with sleeves hiked up but i just wanted to draw it LOLL #his jacket's a cloak here #would make a good print aint it #i need a new phone #tua five #five hargreeves

[jouster-ari]

:')

#i had the shittiest tea latte at like 3:30 ! #and i have. not slept. at all. #its 5am #i have to get up by like 8-9 for a covid shot #im still not tired in a way that would let me fall asleep #im miserable #the latte in question was a jasmine/oatmilk/coconut sugar deal #when you first sip it its not so bad but then the midtaste and aftertaste are so unbelievably bitter #also its a travesty how expensive little beverages are becoming. this shitshow was 6.75 #i feel very irritated. #i also recently got an oolong that sucked absolute shite #but thats quickly for you #heres praying i can get any rest at all. #maybe i will indulge in a nice donut but its a bit of a hike. ill figure it out #the nearby tea place (replacement little beverage) doesnt open til 6:30 ! #and the donut place is 24hr #ill wait and get my tea and then my donut(s). #its still dark here at 6:30 ! #and im not at home so i wanna be safe #unintentional all-nighter crew cry with meeee #:'|

[six-of-ravens]

wooooo okay booked my flu and covid vaccines! they let me do em on the same day which is convenient.

booked them for the day my aunt and I are hiking bc there's no appointments available before that, but the appt is in the evening and the next day is my last full day off work with no plans, so if I feel sick at least I can just chill at home.

#oh i could've booked it for the morning of my final day off i guess #ah well. I'll just slam a bunch of gatorades to make up for the post-hiking dehydration lmao #a covid shot hasn't really taken me out yet (just minor symptoms and then unfortunate dual-periods-for-3-months shenaniganry) #so im hoping I'll be ok

[cosmicrhetoric]

ow lol

#why do i feel like someone STEPPED on me and its not even covid #fr i know what this is ive been here before tell me why im having muscle pain like two days AFTER my big hiking wknd #didnt even have the nerve to hit me right after #and im sick sick but its really mainly the muscle pain #and its my bday tomorrow.....this shouldnt be allowed. they said mid 20s pain be upon ye

[veradune]

Mist 2.0 or woohoo this place hasn't been totally trashed by social media. The springs are kinda busy though and I wandered into some weird photoshoots.

#there was a nude photoshoot a woman posing with a rifle at the springs and my buddy's music video #yyc #alberta #kananaskis #jacques the hiking furb #furby buddy #this was one of my most perfect hikes back in the day #glad it wasnt jarring going back #although it felt smaller (but we didnt summit nor could i have summitted post-COVID) #ive already lost muscle after a month off from the insane 30km+ hikes ;___;

[sodrippy]

getting all these hiking vids on my feed rmring how i planned a big national parks hiking trip and how fucking different my body was four years ago. ok 2am mental breakdown

#no im fine im just a bit sad like. it was totally feasible for me to do that hiking trip back then. what the fuck #i could not even fucking THINK about smth like that now #also rmring how i had just moved up to the medium side of the box jump when covid lockdowns started...jesus #now my knees pop when i Think about a box jump #i mentioned to my folks how my body has gotten noticably worse the past couple years and they were like #no youre not even 30 we never had these problems until we got old #MF I KNOW. IM AWARE. #im TELLING you i have chronic physical ailments you know i have! hello!!! #actually this is really depressing me ummmm 2am sudoku session save me from this please

[cassphos]

getting back into hobbies on my time off has been so healing for my soul. i just wish i wasn't feeling so sick right now

#i forgot how much i enjoyed scrapbooking #i want to go hiking but i woke up so stuffy (not covid) #and also my miniature dollhouse #i got a doodle prompt journal yesterday too #personal