Comments on: Updating laxness? https://www.davidandjustine.net/?p=204 Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David https://www.davidandjustine.net/?p=204&cpage=1#comment-28 David Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:00:25 +0000 http://www.davidandjustine.net/?p=204#comment-28 Is it not hiking if you're going through a desert? How about a tropical rainforest? Those places are different to the NW as well. Hike: 'a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time."' It's hiking whether you like it or not dear. It could be through the city and still be hiking :p I'd also add something that I've realised after giving it some thought... England is misleading. When we were hiking near Mt Raineer, it seemed to me that there wasn't much going up and down. Most of the trails were either uphill, downhill or pretty flat. The thing about the UK is that we have "rolling hills", which means you go up a bit, down a bit, up a bit, back and forth, which is not only tiring but pretty demoralising. The hike we did together in the UK wasn't really very much like that, but a lot of hikes are. I was on a trail like that at the weekend, and any 4 mile stretch of it would have been harder than what we did near Mt Raineer, even though I wasn't walking on snow. In the end, unless you're an ultra-fit mountaineer, the UK has more than enough hills for anyone. I don't think you can call them "scrawny little hills" when you'd struggle to get to the top of a lot of them. :p Is it not hiking if you’re going through a desert? How about a tropical rainforest? Those places are different to the NW as well.

Hike: ‘a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; “she enjoys a hike in her spare time.”‘

It’s hiking whether you like it or not dear. It could be through the city and still be hiking :p

I’d also add something that I’ve realised after giving it some thought… England is misleading. When we were hiking near Mt Raineer, it seemed to me that there wasn’t much going up and down. Most of the trails were either uphill, downhill or pretty flat. The thing about the UK is that we have “rolling hills”, which means you go up a bit, down a bit, up a bit, back and forth, which is not only tiring but pretty demoralising. The hike we did together in the UK wasn’t really very much like that, but a lot of hikes are. I was on a trail like that at the weekend, and any 4 mile stretch of it would have been harder than what we did near Mt Raineer, even though I wasn’t walking on snow. In the end, unless you’re an ultra-fit mountaineer, the UK has more than enough hills for anyone.

I don’t think you can call them “scrawny little hills” when you’d struggle to get to the top of a lot of them. :p

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