In bc? the amount of climbing is insane, Most is non 4x4. But also depends what you mean by 4x4 accesses. Some better tires and then maybe a lift kit covers 99%.
Researching, travelling to and from the mountain, buying and maintaining equipment, and getting training for mountain climbing all cost time and money. Techbros have at least the latter in great abundance.
As someone who also enjoys time in the mountains, how do you find yourself balancing work with your hobbies? In those 4 years you quadrupled your salary, were you also climbing? I feel like it's hard to do both well.
Yeah, I'm in BC, and not having 4x4 limits you a lot. I got stuck trying to get up Mt. Maxwell (the climbing area on Salt spring) in a civic. Bottomed out a lot / damaged my car a lot on Vancouver island / Sunshine Coast, and just can't get somewhere remote like Eldred Valley in Powell River.
Of course, most of Squamish is accessible, and Skaha, so yes, there's tons of climbing, but the "well-traveled" areas are realistically <50% of all potential climbing, and not the same experience as climbing remote.
I am surprised with how many people in this thread are equating mountain climbing with techbro culture. Really? How are those related? The fact that some techbros climb some mountains for fun?
How about the millions of people in rural counties and developing countries without access to vehicles who rely on walking across difficult terrain to make deliveries / get to work / get to school / visit family? Are they also techbros? My grandfather was an electrician in Albania and he would regularly walk dozens of miles on foot including through mountain ranges in order to get between jobs. Granted, this was dozens of years ago, but there's no reason to believe there isn't someone doing the same thing today.
If anything your own upper middle class bias is showing here, because you assume that everyone who navigates terrain is doing so for fun and not because they don't have other options.
A lot of the 8 to 10 thousand foot climbs around here are multi-day because lugging 60 pounds of gear up 4000 feet through 10 or 12 miles of approach is hard work.
Yes. Climbing, too. And there seem to be a surprising number of climbers who are also programmers, so it seems to me there's something similar in the nature of the two activities.
I'm mostly a gym rat, but there's an excellent bouldering spot nearby. I'm not too interested in top-roping or lead climbing...it gets too expensive too quickly.
I know this is off-topic, but I've contemplated this question for years. Why aren't there better technology services/products for outdoor sports in general? I've attempted a few "adventure sport" themed projects, but they never seem to take off. I think there's a paradox between my love for technology and my love for the outdoors. I enjoy both immensely, but they don't go very well together.
Best of luck! I would be interested in hearing some stats (daily reach, submission stats, etc.) when you have them available.
Curious about what routes you climbed! I did Olympus but that was more glacier hopping than technical, I figured most of the technical multipitch was in the North cascades around index. Would love some recommendations as I just moved
Outdoor sports. Rock climbing (from climbing and bouldering walls through to alpinism on 4000m peaks), ski-ing (prefer touring or cross country to piste), and trail running (less now than previously, although I went through a phase of running ultras).
Day job: Technical director in the data science group of an infrastructure management company
Try climbing. I've done a tiny bit. It's hard going straight up as opposed to a nicely sloped walkable path. Takes a lot of effort. Metaphor WFM anyway.
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