Hill walking and mountain climbing.Follow

I start at the bottom.

I walk or climb until I get to the top.

Then I walk, climb or fall back down to the bottom.

After almost half a century of doing this, I'm beginning to think it's stupid and a total fUcking waste of time.

So why do I do it?

Answers, you bastards - answers now!

Because you like to waste your fUcking time, obviously.

Get a car.

then you're not going to the proper mountains. Duh.
I drove up the mountain by my house yesterday for a picnic. Saved myself 3 hours and no sore muscles.

Same reason I got up this mornin in the dark at 5 am. and drove to the beach.

When I got there, I got into a freezing cold, wet rubber suit, and paddled 300 metres out into a frigid ocean, and spent the the next 3 hours either getting pounded, or catching beautiful peeling left handers into the beach.

And then paddling backout again, and again....until my arms were like spaghetti, and I was frozen stiff..

Answer?

because there arn't any wimminz there. /grin

Edited, Jun 16th 2007 9:03am by paulsol

Because the view, usually, is breathtaking at the top. There are a lot of great vistas of the Hudson River Valley (forgetting the existence of the manufacturing plants perched along the banks of the river itself).

The scenery along the way can also be nice. An open forest is very peaceful.

Some fresh air and exercise never killed anyone. sorry Jim Without these constitutionals your chicken legs might not keep you going up the stairs, or riding some lass till morning.

Or, a good way to get away from all the Shit and have a nice puff.

You do it because you enjoy the experience. Even though you aren't doing any hard alpine or technical climbing, there is still a challenge in it. It's not just a walking in the park where the going is easy, the scenery doesn't change much and all you have to do is blindly follow a trail. At the end you have a sense of accomplishment. Maybe you pushed your limits a bit. Maybe you didn't.

Then again, you climb on gritstone. You aren't stupid or wasting your time. You're crazy.

You definitely have the falling down part right, tee hee hee

/concur

What?! More fun than chasing cheese??

Thats commonly known to be the best way down.

Tho I'm pretty sure that the guy with his head stuck up the other fellas **** would probably disagree..

Because England doesn't have proper mountains.

If you were in France, you'd helicopter your way to the top of the Alpine mountain, and slide down the slope on some shiny snowboard, before being greeted at the bottom by two golden-haired-plump-breasted Savoyardes waiting for you with hot wine and raclette.

Just sayin'