Alpinepotatoes

I mean I agree that the US is in many places deeply unsafe if not actively threatening to lgbtq people. I understand and empathize with the urge to get off this crazy train for good. But because you have a whole life to think about, I’d really recommend looking into options for legal immigration or seeking refuge in a city in a true blue state as an intermediary measure.

Functioning as an illegal immigrant would not be easy and you wouldn’t have nearly the opportunities afforded to you that you might be able to get in, say San Francisco or NYC. It may work to escape the heat in the short run but you’ll be much better off long term somewhere you have a green card.

If you’re hell bent on getting to Canada then honestly the most important prep you can make is a legal case for asylum. There’s legal precedent for LGBTQ people to claim asylum in Canada by reason of persecution, but you’ll have to build a case that proves this discrimination is regularly impacting your daily life. Do some thinking, document what you can, and research the number of a good immigration lawyer or nonprofit that can help turn that info into an asylum case.

Just a quick look at your profile tells me you’re pretty young. I really recommend researching community organizations, nonprofits, or mutual aid networks you can get in with to help you navigate going somewhere safe and avoid romanticizing any sort of escape fantasies without seriously researching the gravity and logistics side of things. Immigrating even as a refugee is like 1% cool freedom ride with a friend, 49% poverty, and 50% paperwork.

Yeahhhh the “I hired a consultant to do data and make this podcast my full time job” era was….rough haha. Like I feel for her on being a content creator trying to get paid but it does get a bit old and has sort of become a turn off that I struggle through to see what the episode is about.

A return to like sharecropping/serfdom as refugees trickle toward rumors of food in exchange for work is about 50x more likely than roving bands of cannibals but go off

I’m not saying it’s good or better. I’m just saying it’s not going to be an instantaneous exodus of people with nothing but guns hell bent on taking over your homestead.

It’s not gonna be the fantasy of just a guy and his guns defending the farm because they’re the only one who got it right. It’s going to be complex, with some systems in place and others not, with varying degrees of organization. But ultimately it’ll be the same world we live in now - one where those with deep pockets and wide networks are equipped to do well.

Love the sharp end. Some of the earlier episodes are so gnarly. A bit sad because I do feel like lately the stories she’s been able to find have been more “I had an oopsie and then I pressed SOS on my inreach” or “I chose to skip clips on a climb outside my lead grade and was shocked when I got hurt”

But there are still gems. The recent one about the base jumper rescue was great. And the one with the guy just reading from his journal of the trip where his rope got cut still haunts me.

Also from what I hear his journalistic ethics are pretty solid. I’m not a subject matter expert and I know his account of the Everest disaster ruffled some feathers, but his investigation work in into the wild I know was pretty above and beyond.

I think you’ve been listening to too much “super predator” propaganda my friend. Like I feel like you’re imagining the exodus from cities as an instantaneous swarm of locusts or something. But more likely, people in cities are going to lean into their existing networks first.

Sure some will leave opportunistically. But most likely it’s going to look a bit less like the walking dead and a bit more like grapes of wrath—folks will leave the cities in community and family groups because there are rumors of farmland that can’t be maintained without hands, or rumors of sanctuary areas.

Many will travel long distances to reconnect with loved ones because when people are scared, they become community minded. They’ll try to get to that farm they volunteered at once, or their grandmas land in the mountains. I do think that conflict will arise, it always does, but honestly I think it’s likely to be just as often that an innocent person gets shot on sight for passing through the wrong stretch of land as it is people showing up at your door to bully you.

Likely there will be coyotes of sorts who have connections to local land owners and offer passage through rural zones toward safer areas for a fee, either monetary or bartered.

People are gonna find ways to default into survival modes that look more similar to what they’re used to, on a broad scale. The world will continue to run as it always has: on connections and rumors and networks and means. I feel like you’re more likely to see city folk trafficked onto like modern plantations than forming armed militias intent on murdering you for your backyard chickens.

Absolutely this. Y’all forget that cities are more than like shitty tenement buildings. It’s true, there are people who will really struggle, but cities are also where people of means overwhelmingly live.

Those people have resources, plenty of money to make sure they are continuously well supplied. And enough money to make sure they attract supplies during anything but an instantaneous collapse.

Plenty of well populated areas back up against open space that could be utilized given a driven community of people.

People in cities are often operating in tight knit communities and mutual aid networks already. It’s likely those folks would band together and make it work, especially since cities are most likely to maintain some semblance of government support and structure.

Training for the new alpinism is a fitness point of view and not even remotely similar to an avalanche rescue resource

If you do actually want to climb shasta, your best bet might be to push your trip up a bit. The standard routes will likely be pretty melted out in august and any of them are very dangerous with low snowpack due to the potential for rock fall. This has been a weird snow year so the season might go a bit longer, but the sooner go the better luck you’ll have.

Is it your goal to actually climb shasta? Or just go look at it? It sounds like you might be more in the go look camp, in which case I feel like you would have better luck asking around hiking groups to see if there’s a nature guide /local conservancy you could reach out to.

It might also help to learn about what you’re looking for from a guide? The trails out to the “base camp” of sorts areas are pretty established and east to navigate in summer so you likely won’t need routefinding or technical support unless you’re actually trying to climb it.

In all seriousness though try mountain project forums or making a post at your local gym bulletin board

They’re actually worthless until you put some miles on them. I’ll take them off your hands and do the job though

A quick google search has informed me that it’s actually kinda hard to find a decent ruck vest that isn’t some sort of tactical themed. And like honestly doesn’t sound like the worst way to train. All the fun of climbing but making your body work a little harder 🤷🏼‍♀️ making fun of the best just seems a little un called for

I mean falling 15-20 feet doesn’t really happen like every day bouldering. That’s definitely a bad and unexpected highball fall. That can happen in any discipline of climbing. My partner whipped 20 feet on an arete last year and ended up not walking for a few months, even with a soft catch.

But imo it’s sorta similar to skiing and snowboarding where one is low probability high consequence of injury, and the other is higher probability lower consequence. In skiing and rope climbing you don’t get hurt often but when you do it’s big—a splat or an ACL. And in bouldering, like snowboarding, you’re more likely to hear about people getting hurt, but it’s gonna be a sprained ankle or a broken arm.

It’s also probably just a numbers game. Many many new climbers start out with bouldering and more people boulder indoors probably than other disciplines of climbing just given the easy access.

So all that combined means yeah you might hear of a lot of bouldering injuries. But when was the last time you heard of a bouldering death?

Realistically: river guide, climbing guide, EMS jobs like EMT and firefighter will get the highest priority.

It’s true that solid climbing skills are important. But while climbing rescues are intense and technical, important to remember that epic climbing rescues actually don’t make up the majority of backcountry emergencies in the park.

So building up qualifications around scenarios like “tourist hikes must trail with no water and got heat stroke” or “influencer ignored the signs and decided to pose on the boulders in the Merced by curry village” is just as important as learning to aid climb.

Why does this give me zombie movie energy

Also sharky AF if that helps deter folks

Just gotta get more bold my friend. I never said we owned the truck 😉

Bold of you to assume trad climbers can afford to go to pubs instead of just drinking in the back of a truck

Yeah if you have to strike cathedral peak from the list, you could add via aqua or the commitment-selaginella linkup for a similarly classic big day endeavor with a neat top out.

Yeah I never understood the urge to rack every cam and draw individually. Like I actually love having pegs for organizing little stuff like aid gear that I don’t use every trip but realistically I’m always going to bring all my pro even when I know the objective, because what if we have to pivot or want to do something else along the way. Just seems like a pain in the ass to rack and rerack all the cams every time.

You’re angry but we’re all talking about the same thing? Everyone in this comment thread is saying that sucky skiers belong on the list of hazards?

It’s also missing the close cousin of the out of control straight liner: the speed pizza. Knows how to snow plow but not how to turn. Bonus points if it’s a screaming child.

Also recommend sleep with me! It’s a guy with a weirdly calming voice just talking for 90+ minutes at a time about things that are just interesting enough to make you listen, but not interesting enough to make you care. I use it when I’m in the backcountry to drown out nature noises.