>>2552125Came across my first “peak bagger” camping in a saddle (6200ft) the other week, honestly it saddened me. I’ve met plenty of other climbers out and about, but none have been so vigorously gotta catch’em all about their hikes.
All they talked about was “defeating the mountain,” as if a trillion tons of billion year old metamorphic rock really could be bested by an ant. Dude couldn’t see the beauty being in the outdoors isn’t inextricably tied to some adversarial relationship with elevation.
