My point was mainly to have some fun with sarcasm and stirring the pot over a subject I thought was interesting, which worked. As explanation of the OP, I would say that I come a across a lot of sentiments here and elsewhere to the effect of "I am super cool because I did something or another," and often I do say similar things myself. I wanted this to be sort of a reminder that while it is good to set achievable goals for oneself and be proud of one's accomplishments, it helps to have perspective, and one is rarely near the top of any given activity on a global scale. Instead of trying to one-up with "my event was more adventurous," I guess I wanted to point out that when taking our, or at least my, accomplishments in light of the greatest feats in the mountains, it becomes apparent that the only good course is to lighten up and have fun instead of fighting for some image.Brian C wrote:I thought I was with you, but after reading this again I'm not quite sure I understand your point. I get that you think that Colorado stuff can't be classified as an "adventure", but I'm not sure I get what you consider to be a modern-day adventure. Are you thinking just high-altitude technical FAs? Do you personally care about experiencing a true mountain adventure, and if you do what would an example of that be?
As for what I would say a modern adventure is, I associate it mostly with the kind of peak that looks really cool in photos and has a wikipedia page that either only mentions its elevation or has only some cryptic info about trekking circuits around the peak. Rola Kangri is an example of an adventure I dream of going on.
Perhaps adventure was too broad a word, as many have pointed out, and the perspective focuses more on mountain climbing accomplishment solely.
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Re: others:
It was a light-hearted troll post with a dab of my personal thoughts, something that some picked up on and others didn't. It's the internet, I didn't make you read it.