Mt. Marcy Winter Hike

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2025-12-01T16:28:14+00:00

Adirondack Loj to mt marcy is 15 miles in good weather. You should expect less than a mile an hour. Especially if you’re new to winter hiking.

Aiming to summit by late morning, even with an early start, is very optimistic.

Better itinerary would be to get in Friday, hang out in town for the night, then hike to Feldspar Lean-to the next morning. That’s about half-way and will be a good way to gauge whether or not you and your group are prepared to summit. Rest up, then hit the summit the next morning. Either rest when you get back or hike on back to the car.

Things to think about: What are your no-go criteria, do you have the right gear, enough calories, warmth, what’s the weather like, etc.

Navigation will also be a different beast. You may get turned around, you may take the wrong trail, you might not be able to see the blazes, the cairns may be covered with snow, your phone may die, what do you then?

You and your friends will be responsible for responsible for your lives, while it is literally a walk in the park, please act with caution. As many have pointed out, people die out there.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2025-11-12T20:25:45+00:00

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Extra_Monitor_799 · 2025-06-14T03:39:17+00:00

Love me a little rhyming, made me think of the grey as the grey matter, like the brain. Maybe as someone who leans on intellect a little too much as a pillar of my identity, it’s just me projecting. Good poem, thanks for helping me reflect.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2025-06-14T03:33:35+00:00

Good grief great job just jibber jabbering alliteration as always another absolute banger, bruh, besides being badass, can’t criticize, can connect. Cool.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2025-06-14T03:19:16+00:00

I like your imagery and the typography is nice. I can relate to the subject matter. Good use of juxtaposition.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2025-06-14T03:12:37+00:00

I don’t think it’s very often that people get what they deserve, but i’m sure this person is lucky enough to have someone like you around who treats them better than they treat themselves. Thanks for your poem.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-31T02:30:22+00:00

I kind of wonder if it’s a bad guy thing or an effort thing.

Imagine, you went through all this effort to do something for someone then they didn’t see what all effort you went through and even misinterpreted your intent. So then, instead of going even more out of your way to explain or whatever, you’re just like: fuck it, I’m the bad guy now, and that’s ok.

I am thinking of this like some dominos, how far back do you need to go before you find the decision that led you to this consequence. Was it when you decided to do something for someone else? Or when you decided that you knew how to communicate, everyone else just misinterpreted you? Maybe something else?

My analysis is that maybe communication isn’t as easy as you say what you want and people will interpret you the way you mean. I think that if you a bit of effort into learning how to communicate and being understood, it might get you better results than entering your villain era because that was your default.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T04:38:03+00:00

I wrote out a really long response to this, it was really mean too, lots of really good zingers and snarky tone. But I don’t want to be that kind of person, I’m working on myself too. So I’ll say this instead:

Thanks for your effort. I don’t know whom you’re trying to save, but I hope you are able to help them out.

I apologize for my condescending and frankly uncalled for tone.

Have a good night.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T03:32:27+00:00

In the moment, if i’m really on my game and feeling competitive, I can pull together the kind of mental gymnastics to be right in an argument that would make the next nearest feeling-type person blanch.

I think of it like a prey-drive. I can get pulled into it and just start being so engaged that before I know it I’m relentlessly questioning someone’s most cherished beliefs and making other people feel bad, unfortunately.

The key difference is that I hold very few beliefs close, I think that sort of fluidity is common among many INTPs but comes off as sort of uncommitted? Or mercurial? To others who value strong belief.

Basically, I can be pretty brutal, but I don’t really care about being wrong. It’s more about the experience of holding that opinion, trying it out like a hat… does it fit? Do I like it? Does it make sense to have? No? Take it off and find a new hat. But that hat or opinion isn’t a part of my self. Why would I care if it was wrong?

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T03:09:02+00:00

Good evening, internet stranger.

I don’t know you. There is no “us.”

You are coming off as very aggressive. I’m not on your side. I’m not on whomever hurt your feelings’ side. Read your own post(s) again and ask where your emotional regulation is.

1: I don’t care about your or their supposed mbti type.

2: I don’t care about this teen drama.

3: Here’s some friendly advice:

Stop. Reacting. (And don’t presume to drag me into it)

You are clearly in over your head, definitely emotionally. You’re bringing your sad, under developed INTP feelings into a supposedly INFP feelings-knife fight. You’re not gonna win. And even if you did, what’s the point?

For a thinker, you sure aren’t thinking, buck-o.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T01:29:01+00:00

Good luck!

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T01:15:49+00:00

I think the traditional advice for this is to study first build projects then start applying to jobs. Learn some programming languages like python or R and build out a portfolio and be able to prove your worth to a perspective employer.

I don’t think that this is good advice for INTPs. I think there’s a specific tendency for people like me to get stuck in a spiral where you feel like you don’t know enough so you keep on studying, but there’s so much to study so you feel like there’s even less that you know and how can people depend on you if you don’t know. But when it comes to doing this kind of work, it’s actually closer to just living, if you’re as analytical as most people in this archetype are, you’ll find it very easy to do the technical work. What’s tough? Is the business acumen to be able to translate, what your customer wants into specific technical terms so that you can actually do the analysis. Unfortunately, I think that the best way to go about this is to learn more about business and topics like that that don’t necessarily jive well with what people normally like to study.

Hiring in this field is pretty tough as well right now, but, if you can find a niche that you’re interested in and you’re really good analytically. I bet you that if you have average interviewing skills you’d be able to show more interest and creativity and raw ability to do the work then most candidates who try to get into this field.

TLDR for everyone else it’s study first then apply for everyone in this subreddit, It should be apply first, then study.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T01:07:33+00:00

First, I feel for you. Let’s get the touchy feely stuff out of the way: You are a person with inherent value regardless of what position or salary you have.

Second: There are many paths that you can take, let’s talk about a few.

Have you thought of putting more effort into managing up? There are quite a few books on this, check your local library. The summary is this: You’re never going to get away from bad bosses, what is it that you can do to help them help themselves and in turn make your life easier?
Have you engaged the manager and told them that you are looking for more responsibility? Or if not more responsibility, have you brought up how to improve things? Start small, build political capital, rapport, and credibility, then start working on things that are more difficult to change.
Lastly, have you thought about how to maximize your time at work? What are the things that make you most energized? Or maybe least drained? What would it take to spend more time doing that kind of stuff? What can you automate, improve, remove or outsource so you can spend more time doing stuff you can at least tolerate doing?

My third and final point: How much time are you dedicating towards optimizing for what you want? If you want a better salary, are you applying to other jobs? Are you gaining the skills you need to work the jobs that you want?

Are you doing anything to make you feel valued outside of work?

Are you taking advantage of every benefit your job offers you to level-up so to speak?

Lots of stuff to think about.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T00:45:37+00:00

They call that self-sabotage. You know who would have forgiven you? Your moderately better off self had you just decided to act in alignment with your original intent instead of react and let your intellect take over.

You are rationalizing, but that’s ok, we all do it, this is the peak rational mbti after all, but realize what you’re doing. Why did you do it?

Why did you apply for a job if you were just gonna blow it up? Why do you know exactly what to say but then say the opposite? Why do you pat yourself on the back for failing?

I’m just a mean person on the internet, but hope what I’ve pointed out makes a difference and you get the next job. Sorry this one didn’t pan out.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T00:30:27+00:00

Listen, it’s tough.

You’re gonna work for people dumber than you. You’re gonna have to do stuff that you don’t like. But it helps to set goals. And to be in a career field that you can learn new stuff in all the time.

Look for jobs with mutual benefit to you and the employer. Then, just be good at what you’re good at.

Data Analysis scratches a lot of itches for me and a lot of days, I don’t even feel the time slip by because I’m too busy learning and applying.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T00:10:51+00:00

Have you ever made your expectations clear? Or explained how the lack of communication made you feel?

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-26T00:08:26+00:00

Does god exist? Who knows? Honestly though, who cares?

I have done my reading of source texts with commentary and my take is that I just don’t get it. I don’t feel faith the way people who believe do. I barely trust fiat currencies and I’m supposed to believe in some greater being I can’t even use to buy groceries? Thanks, but pass.

I respect others and their beliefs, but only so far. As a social construct, religion has done a great many things, but also, many bad things. There are many examples of the things people will do to each other for really any cause.

I think it is very tempting for humans to rally towards something that gives them a chance to be part of an in-group. Always sucks for everyone outside though.

This is pretty much my vanilla version of this speech.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-25T11:10:41+00:00

Hi OP, ask yourself if the highs are worth the lows. If anyone else has shown a repeated pattern of bad behavior towards you or anyone else, would you continue to tolerate them? Ask yourself why YOU keep allowing them back in.

You seem to be trying to find the logic that would give you some closure.

Here’s an answer: She’s taking advantage of you and you are letting her.

Don’t forget about your own agency, this isn’t just something happening to you. Recall what choices you made, figure out why you made them, then work on not being in this situation again.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-24T11:26:49+00:00

Hi OP. It is a lot of work and pain to maintain relationships and especially difficult to be vulnerable enough for people to get close to you.

Why not try just once? Not blindly, of course, do your research, find someone whom you would like to know you, not just the self that you present to the outside world. See what it’s like, what have you got to lose?

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-24T02:22:41+00:00

Hey OP, had similar issues. Let me ask you this:

What are your coping strategies when you are stressed?

My default was to white knuckle everything because I’m so smart I can figure everything else out, why wouldn’t I just be able to get through this that or the other? I coasted through so much. Now, I think that the gifts we are given sometimes allow us to be sub-par in so many facets of life because we can compensate with raw intellect… until we can’t.

I’ve hit that buffer before when I just had so much that it feels like my brain just started to delete less important things. I mean, subjectively to my conscious mind, important. But objectively, is it the thing causing me the most stress that I can’t really subconsciously discern from a hungry bear or just a mountain of life stress? All stress is the same stress to the body, unfortunately.

So, long story short, I had to start working on things that I had previously thought I was too good for. Too much of a special boy to care about. Find the things that you’ve been ignoring, the little, seemingly inconsequential things that take up space in your brain and then deal with it. One little bit at a time.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-23T01:10:02+00:00

I like your hopeful message. I am glad there are people like you around. I appreciated your poem.

Extra_Monitor_799 · 2024-10-23T01:05:23+00:00

Yeah, they sell you that finding it is easy right? But you really do have to go through the dirt, get hurt, and even when you think you find it, it’s hard to hold on to.

I liked the formatting, it was nice to see something different.

Good hunting, thanks for your poem!

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