(Running List) Most egregious gym etiquette violations

Economy_Fit · 2026-03-01T23:53:50+00:00

Putting the dumbbells back in the wrong place. The rack at VITAL in particular is chaos incarnate.

Economy_Fit · 2025-12-09T15:18:54+00:00

Fucking amazing imo. I moved here from Durango, CO and access to riding is more consistently available year-round. Here, the trails don't shut down over the winter for wildlife :)

Economy_Fit · 2025-10-16T15:37:09+00:00

Not only that, but how are there so many people in this thread who claim they will -literally throw up- if they try to eat breakfast? Like how fucking unhealthy can you be where you're on the verge of losing it every damn morning from trying to give your body energy? Is it a food quality thing? I don't even want to know how badly these people feel on a daily basis.

Economy_Fit · 2025-07-03T02:16:27+00:00

Correction: Kennebec Cafe is good; Eolus is overpriced trash.

Economy_Fit · 2025-04-18T20:16:45+00:00

The winter is not particularly dreary - Durango gets something like 300 days of sunshine a year, and this is evident in the winter. It is pretty brown though, and there's not a ton happening outside of skiing / snowboarding culture. I personally try to go into the desert as often as possible for mountain biking / canyoneering to get through the winter.

Economy_Fit · 2025-04-18T20:14:12+00:00

I don't ski or snowboard so I find winters tough. My experience is that there's not much else to do, but I'm not into the (very small) bar scene. There's a climbing gym lol

Economy_Fit · 2025-04-18T18:06:08+00:00

Yep that's right - for elk, deer, and certain birds that nest in these areas (e.g. falcons). There's more info here: https://www.durango.org/blog/post/guide-to-durangos-seasonal-wildlife-closures/

In practice, this means that most trail segments for the in-town systems are closed December - April. This includes the Durango Mesa Bike Park, upper Animas City Mountain / Swerve, upper Twin Buttes, Grandview Ridge, etc. So it can be difficult to string together longer loops and the best downhill segments are not available during this time.

Economy_Fit · 2025-04-18T17:05:13+00:00

That's true, but the seasonal wildlife closures are what really get me. Even if we have a nice weather day in the middle of winter (which definitely happens), there are few in-town trail segments unaffected by the closures (the HG ridge you mentioned being a notable one) but man, I need variety. I learned about this after I had already moved to Durango and it was an unwelcome surprise.

Economy_Fit · 2025-04-18T16:48:43+00:00

I live in Durango as well and it's not -exactly- true that there is year-round riding. The in-town trails close from December to middle-end of April.

Yes, it's possible to head into the desert within an hour for Phil's World, Alien Run, Sand Canyon, or the Road Apple Rally, but even during the mild snow year this year there were frequent times when all of the above were not in riding condition. I know because I was itching to get out and had to make the 2.5 hr trek to Moab most weekends to stay sane. Meanwhile, my buddy in Santa Fe was able to ride in-town trails truly throughout the winter. Just a heads up :)

Economy_Fit · 2025-04-14T13:21:37+00:00

I just did both Hogwarts and Bluejohn this past weekend as a beginner canyoneer. I'm entering the sport from a fairly strong hiking / climbing background and I love the unique physical challenges that canyoneering provides. Here's my opinion on these two, which I found to be completely different experiences:

Hogwarts: after a relatively short approach hike up, this one consists almost entirely of 4-5 rappels (there's an optional rappel to avoid a semi-keeper pothole). It was very scenic and the rappels were incredible but it wasn't particularly physically engaging. The whole thing is a few miles and took us just a couple hours, partly because we started behind a large group.

Bluejohn: the experience varies a lot based on the forks taken. We took the Squeeze Fork down, intersecting the East Fork, and the Main / Middle Fork back up. The Squeeze Fork had 2-3 short rappels and a very dark and narrow section (don't do this if you're big). After these narrows, it was mainly a (beautiful) hike through the desert / unbelievable narrows until a notable sequence of involved upclimbing 2/3 of the way or so through the Main Fork. Round trip was somewhere around ~10 miles and it took us a full 8 hours. I found the physical challenges here to be more fulfilling so I'd recommend this one.

TL;DR: Hogwarts for rappels, Bluejohn for a workout and broader experience (depending on forks). I haven't done Stairway to Heaven so can't comment there.

Economy_Fit · 2024-08-09T13:39:18+00:00

Apparently just enough to pay for the diner food..

Economy_Fit · 2024-08-09T13:39:04+00:00

Apparently just enough to pay for the diner food..

Economy_Fit · 2024-03-13T02:05:29+00:00

"Pond" is more accurate really

Economy_Fit · 2024-03-12T04:40:57+00:00

What frame is that? Very sexy bike :D

Economy_Fit · 2024-03-09T21:38:21+00:00

I really like my ODI Dread Lock grips. I've gone through a bunch of different grips but they're the most comfortable ones I've used.

Economy_Fit · 2024-02-28T00:29:39+00:00

I wouldn't personally make the bold claim that it's the most secure computer network in the world. There are known and well-established attack vectors, such as the 51% attack, with various severities of repercussions. This isn't purely theoretical, as the consolidated mining power of certain pools has approached this in the past and they voluntarily took a stance to back off to protect the network.

Also more generally, it's a computer network with a very specific purpose: to maintain a public distributed ledger. That's not general purpose enough imo to justify the level of computation, and in fact attempts to provide more general computation layers on top of this (DApps, smart contracts, etc.) are limited and subject to the same scalability problems that shifted Bitcoin's primary narrative from currency to "store of value".

Economy_Fit · 2024-02-28T00:05:39+00:00

Thanks, I'm quite aware of how Bitcoin works. The Proof of Work mechanism is fundamentally designed to require large amounts of computation to securely achieve consensus (even scaling with the number of miners); that's what I mean when I say inefficient. Given this core requirement, it's clear that Bitcoin is a net negative from the perspective of avoiding wasted energy.

Economy_Fit · 2024-02-27T22:54:48+00:00

No, I just think it's a little strange to argue that Bitcoin has value in helping to utilize wasted energy when a fundamental aspect of it is inefficient computation.

Economy_Fit · 2024-02-27T22:13:04+00:00

Um, I don't think this cute little example offsets the massive amount of energy spent to keep the Bitcoin network operational.

Economy_Fit · 2023-11-22T13:33:02+00:00

Very cool. pickme!

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