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White People Can You Explain Hiking?

  • I have been asked by many of my caucasian friends to go hiking, I dont get why they would invite me. I don't like nature, Im a man of cosmopolitan entertainment, and I enjoy the concrete jungle as opposed to the real jungle. Can one of you melanin deficient folks explain to me the purpose of hiking? is it exploration? If so Im sure youre not the first person to discover anything you may find hiking. Is it exercise? I can think of better workouts? Shits & Giggles? I know you white folks have hobbies just because, you can. One of the benefits of being the dominant race.

    Mr Tiffles7673

  • Oh, you mean gallivanting in the woods?

    RandomTerp

  • It's challenging.

    naegeleterp ●

  • we used to 'hike' when we didn't have our own home/apartment

    winterps

  • God lives in nature. I go to visit with Him.

    Tonight I'll try to post some pictures of why I hike.

    TheColfax

  • Going Saturday!

    It's good mental exercise.

    multiple awards ●

  • the reason you're invited is so we have a story to tell the next time somebody runs out that joke about one of the shortest books being; "Negroes I met while yachting and hiking."

    cjterps98 ●

  • I consider hiking and camping to be a complete negation of everything humankind has worked for thousands of years to develop: comfortable shelter from the elements, climate control, indoor plumbing, electricity and all of its fruits, advanced cooking facilities. It makes a mockery of the Renaissance and scientific reasoning.

    sgii ●

  • I can only assume you are referring to hiking taxes, and that occurs because we make too much money so we have to pay it back to the poor to ensure stability in said concrete jungle.

    Sincerely,

    White People

    7erps

  • Heading out for a 9-mile loop at Antietam Battlefield right now. For me it's exercise, nature, and giving my brain unconnected time to process and reshuffle information.

    interpid ●

  • As an avid hiker, no, I cannot explain why anyone would want you on a hike with them.

    I see relatively high numbers of black people hiking, and even more camping, which is a new phenomenon of the last couple of years. None of them are fat or musclebound and unable to effectively summit peaks though.

    TortugaGrande

  • Toogs I have more friends than you...lets be honest nobody on the board would rather hang out with you than me.

    Mr Tiffles7673

  • sgii said...

    I consider hiking and camping to be a complete negation of everything humankind has worked for thousands of years to develop: comfortable shelter from the elements, climate control, indoor plumbing, electricity and all of its fruits, advanced cooking facilities. It makes a mockery of the Renaissance and scientific reasoning.

    Don't you guys want to get off the grid every now and again? I go fishing with some buddies up in Algonquin every summer for a week. We probably encounter fewer than 10 people the whole time. I love city life but I also love a complete break every now and again.

    cjterps98 ●

  • I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion

    terpsfan22 ●

  • sgii said...

    I consider hiking and camping to be a complete negation of everything humankind has worked for thousands of years to develop: comfortable shelter from the elements, climate control, indoor plumbing, electricity and all of its fruits, advanced cooking facilities. It makes a mockery of the Renaissance and scientific reasoning.

    That pretty much sums it up. We did a lot of hiking and camping when I was a kid because my dad grew up on a farm and we were kind of poor. Now that I am a grownassman and not poor, I really see no point in walking around for longer than about 45 minutes and sleeping on the ground. I like air conditioning and walls that I did not erect myself. Showers are good, too. Mosquitos suck-- they can have the outdoors, I'll stay indoors where I belong.

    My wife still romanticizes hiking and camping and wants our son to experience it. That will be awesome for the two of them. I'll just find a hotel and watch movies on my laptop/ipad or some shit. If he wants to be a boy scout, he can have an awesome time with his friends and their poor dads who can't afford air conditioning.

    We also took a lot of road trips when I was a kid. Similarly, I have enough money to fly anywhere that I go that is further than about a 4 hour drive. If I can't fly there, I just won't go. There's nowhere I really need to be.

    MisterSmiley ●

  • Mr. Tiffles said...

    Toogs I have more friends than you...lets be honest nobody on the board would rather hang out with you than me.

    I'm sure your first point is true, I value quality over quantity. I count zero douchebags among those I call "friend." I doubt you can say the same, and I also doubt but don't care about your second point.

    TortugaGrande

  • Smiley, my thoughts exactly...

    Mr Tiffles7673

  • The grid is underrated. I enjoy being on the grid.

    MisterSmiley ●

  • I don’t think most people hike to explore or exercise – it’s not a means to an end because there isn’t a purpose of achievement. The most directive it gets is going up and then down again, and often it’s a twisting loop within which you don’t know where you are.

    I like hiking because the activity has only the loosest of boundaries; because I like moving better than beginning or ending, but I also like being able to stop at a new vantage every once in a while; because the sun and breeze feel better than room temperature and birds sound better than 60 Hz noise; because you don’t see carpet and wallpaper on postcards.

    As Colfax alludes to, it catches the very spirit of some people who believe in the idea of spirit. People guided by a sense of wonder and who don’t wish that to change. I would never guess you would appreciate hiking, Tiffles, but you get more out of cities than I do.

    schmidy online

  • I used to be really into hiking and want to get back into it this summer. I have a good pair of boots and a camelback. What should I be looking into in terms of hiking attire, are all these new-fangled moisture wicking fabrics the way to go? Socks, underwear, shorts, shirts?

    neal990 ●

  • just this past weekend my bro in law was trying to convince me how great hiking is. ive done a little and was never a big fan. the only scenarios i think i would enjoy is if at the end of it i was somewhere high up and had a great view or if it ended in somewhere exotic like a waterfall/secluded beach.

    AlphaOmega ●

  • neal990 said...

    I used to be really into hiking and want to get back into it this summer. I have a good pair of boots and a camelback. What should I be looking into in terms of hiking attire, are all these new-fangled moisture wicking fabrics the way to go? Socks, underwear, shorts, shirts?

    I like thin hiking pants so I don't have to wear shorts. the ticks are outrageous this year. Bright colors supposedly ward them off too. I wear REI quick drying button down shirts and smartwool socks. Hiking pants are convertible so if it's too too hot they can come off. Have been unable to surpass Ex Officio wicking underwear

    TortugaGrande

  • OMG "I have more friends than you"

    strOterp

  • terpsfan22 said...

    I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion

    Yeah, you think he'd have written that if he'd lived in an age with television and internet and fresh-delivered pizza summoned with a quick phone call?

    sgii ●

  • Sure, there are still people like that, the world just isn't as great for them. Read "A Year in the Maine Woods." Actually never mind, don't.

    TortugaGrande

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