>>1134930A prime example of why shortcuts are almost never a good idea when hiking. I got one for myself too
>Hiking with my Dad up in Washington>We reach the summit of our mountain and see that there's a rock slide that if we went down would cut our trail time in half>Me being the fool young man that I am I convince my 56yo Dad to come down it with me>Mfw literally sliding down rock cliffs with almost no handholds and a considerable drop beneath us>Nothing that would kill us but you could easily fuck up your leg or angle and have to make a humiliating call to search and rescue>My poor Dad makes it down, we each nearly fall 3 times>Once we're past the cliff it's loose rock for another kilometer>Making mini rockslides every time we move and having rocks slip out from under us>Rocks are slippery from snow as well so we have to go down on our hands and knees>Total time down ends up being the exact same because of how slow we had to take it going downOn the bright side we found a massive rock with beautiful (what we think is) jade deposits running through it. Pic related
