>>2446750>>2447340>>2446866>>2446988Not really. The people that are out there the most, are the ones that have the time and money to do it. In my experience it's mostly business owners, and people in a similar financial position, where they will retire at 50 with a passive income that allows them to travel frequently and barely work. My climbing partner owned an automotive import shop. In my experience, the broke people are usually the guides and helpers. Those are the ones making pennies for a wage, the ones that gave up everything so they could live five to a ski shack but spend all of their days on the mountain doing what they love. The myth that there's some broke guy living in his car in the trailhead parking lot, isn't a thing. I've met several of those. Their dad is a surgeon, their mom is a director of engineering for GE, and as soon as they come home, mommy and daddy will replenish their bank account, resume paying for their school, and they'll get a job at Starbucks because they have no real obligations and no real expenses. If you work 9-5 like I said here
>>2446751, chances are your vacation time goes to other things, or is split over major climbs and you just don't have the time to travel to every spot that you want to hit in a given year. Mountaineering eventually turns into a game of time management, and the reality is that blue collar Bob doesn't actually have that kind of time, or money.
