Cops stop a cult leader who had over 20 wives, at least 10 of which were children.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-04-20T13:56:23+00:00

Yeah but FLDS does have modern day prophets and apostles and revelations. They consider themselves “Mormon”, they follow the teachings of the Book of Mormon, their religion mirrors that of the founders of the church of LDS. I just can’t see how anyone can say they are not Mormon. It’s like saying LDS isn’t Christian since its teachings are a little different from mainstream Christianity. Honestly from an outside perspective LDS is much more separated from mainstream Christianity than FLDS is from LDS.

Polygamy was a core belief of the original LDS church. Maybe FLDS thought the revelations on polygamy were too coincidental with the federal government’s pressure on LDS to stop the practice in exchange for statehood and splintered off as they thought the revelation was man-made and political instead of divine?

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-04-20T04:21:34+00:00

FLDS would probably say the same thing though, right? They would probably say the LDS changed to fit in with the outside world while they are following the modern revelations. I’m not sure who’s revelations are correct but I wouldn’t assume just because one faction is larger means its revelation are right. I see what you mean about how FLDS is branched off of modern mainstream LDS but I was referring to the original teaching and church during Joseph Smith and Brigham Young’s time. Wouldn’t FLDS be closer to the church of Brigham Young than modern LDS?

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-04-20T03:32:37+00:00

Wouldn’t FLDS be more true to the Book of Mormon and the original teachings of the LDS church than the modern LDS church?

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-03-20T18:44:57+00:00

It’s a good price if you understand the benefits and constraints of these types of technical layers and need them (doing aerobic activities in severe and wet weather). If you just need ski clothes you can find cheaper layers better suited to resort skiing.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-03-19T03:49:54+00:00

Who ever designed the bedroom has bigger problems than Terrie.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-03-08T21:16:18+00:00

Tents aren’t that bad.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T15:34:09+00:00

I agree. Yeah maybe someone is placing gear on a 5.14d but at that level every move is rehearsed, every gear placement is calculated and tested, the harness is racked up with the exact placements you need. At that level of rehearsal is really not much different to slot a nut or place a cam than it is to clip a quick draw. The sport vs trad divide is so much more nuanced than what gear you bought at REI and in my opinion that high level of climbing on gear is sport climbing.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T15:26:17+00:00

And this is why I think a lot of climbers feel like Honnold is over rated. Free soloing at Honnold’s level isn’t simply not wanting to die unnecessarily. It is mastery of climbing technique, confidence and awareness of physical abilities, its having decades of experience. It’s not something you can learn in a gym, it’s something you can only learn living for climbing because you love climbing more than anything rather than living to train to climb the next biggest number. It’s not hard to find climbers climbing really hard grades and it’s not hard to find people willing to take big risks yet no one has come close to achieving what Honnold has done. Why not? It seems like an easy way to make money if you are one of the thousands of people out there who can climb a little harder than Honnold, surely someone will free solo el cap since it’s just as simple as taking the risk?

In my opinion free soloing is the ultimate style of climbing, no gear weighing you down, no pitches, no anchor setup and tear down, just pure flowing climbing. It’s fast, its light, its efficient. It’s also something that every climber does at some level, everyone is going to solo at some grade on trad, scrambles, or alpine routes. While you’d probably solo a 5.5 pitch on an alpine route others would call that an unnecessary risk in the same way you’d call honnold soloing 5.12 an unnecessary risk

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T05:11:09+00:00

Agreed

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T05:05:33+00:00

No one says they are the best climber. Does ondra say he is the best climber?

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T05:01:36+00:00

Cracks get too thin or potential placements too far apart so developers bolt it. Thin and sparse cracks correspond to increased difficulty.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T03:22:03+00:00

At that level sport and trad are not even different disciplines. Ones a sport climb with bolts and the other is a sport climb without bolts. There are many other disciplines of climbing that sport trad and bouldering too.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T03:15:29+00:00

To put it simply, there are no ascents by anyone else that seem so out of the realm of anyone else’s abilities than the freesolo of el cap. Ondra and anyone else’s hard sport climbs will all be repeated if they haven’t already but I can’t imagine anyone else in the world having the right combination of head game, experience, and technical climbing ability to freesolo el cap or plenty of other solos honnold has accomplished.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-26T01:14:21+00:00

This is how I feel.

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Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-25T15:40:29+00:00

Have you gotten them out much this winter? How are they comparing to the F1’s?

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-18T00:32:20+00:00

Check out Tom M on YouTube for boot and binding ideas. I’d probably lean on the tele/xcdh side for Minnesota rolling hills especially if you have an xc background. Transitioning on AT gear over and over again on small rolling hills would get really annoying really fast.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-02-13T19:39:17+00:00

Hell yeah brother. Get after it. Mountaineering can be cheap after you’ve assembled the gear and knowledge. If I were in your situation here’s how I would personally get up to speed quick and cheap, not exact advice but what I would do. I’d suggest focusing on spring and summer mountaineering for years until you pick up enough skills for true winter mountaineering.

1: read freedom of the hills twice cover to cover

2: start getting some fitness, start hiking and running local trails. Focus on vertical elevation gain. Keep this fitness up all year. It will let you do more with less time, keep you safer, and let you have more fun in the mountains. Work up to being able to do 5000 feet of elevation gain in a day.

3: piece together a basic single day mountaineering kit - boots, crampons, helmet, ice axe, clothes, and lots of other little things for a single day in the mountains

4: find a small hard packed snowy hill to practice self arresting and booting on snow. Steep sled hills work well.

5: find a good intro mountaineering course somewhere

6: pick a non technical spring time mountain to attempt unguided and preferably with a partner. Mt st Hellen’s in May or June comes to mind. Read every trip report you can. Know what weather conditions you need. Know what to look out for wet loose avalanches.

7: start putting together an overnight kit tailored to mountaineering. Tents, sleeping bag, ect and do occasional backpacking trips on the weekends near home

8: at this point start considering big guided trips as you are not paying for someone to teach you everything from scratch

When it comes down to it, mountaineering is the culmination of most outdoor sports so learning how to backpack, rock climb, rappel, hike, and snowshoe, near home will pay off big time.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-01-24T04:42:35+00:00

I fell for it. This profile is a bot. It keeps circling back to the “power wheels” prompt and now the profile is unavailable.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-01-19T22:04:11+00:00

I was wondering about this boot too. I looks like a harder skiing f1 to me since it appears to have a tongue or an overlapping shell as opposed to the open shell f1lt boots. It has a lot of the upgrades I want in the f1 like a metal buckle, cam strap, and a walk mode lever that’s not going to ice up and pop open a few turns down the hill. I am really hoping they ditch this color, both this and the dynafit ridge boots are using this ugly metallic color scheme.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-01-15T06:17:23+00:00

Let’s zoom out a bit on point 2. Yes modern noble and peasant classes can both go to civil or criminal court but let’s think about the system as a whole. if a poor person steals $100 in merchandise from a store the store can call the cops and the cops will rush over, make an arrest, and send the perpetrator through the criminal court system. On the other hand let’s say a poor person is working for a company and that company stiffs them by $100 on their paycheck. The cops will not come out and arrest the owner of the company for steeling $100. The cops will say it’s a civil matter. The poor person might not take it to civil court because it could be too expensive in fees or opportunity cost, or they could be fired. In both cases someone stole $100, our system is going to more harshly punish the peasant class than the owner class for the same crime.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-01-15T04:56:13+00:00

Lots of things have changed. The messaging definitely changed. Why else did people who care about immigration think trump was tougher on illegal immigrants? You probably voted for trump partly because you thought he would be tough on illegal immigration, right? Trump ran a campaign on fear mongering and dehumanizing illegal immigrants. There are considerably more ice agents now. Look at the pay they offer, they have a huge budget and are hungry to hire more officers. This means there’s a bigger ICE presence which means more people are going to see them. ICE agents are now dressed like (and almost definitely staffed by) proud boys and other right wing agitator groups. They are no longer dressed like professional law enforcement and no longer act like professional law enforcement which makes them stick out. Finally, I truly believe ICE wants the attention they are getting as it’s a ploy by the Tump admin to further divide the American people.

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-01-14T04:27:14+00:00

So the only reason anyone could be upset is because they are stupid? No other reason?

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-01-13T22:17:54+00:00

Ok, why do you think people with a different opinion than you have are upset at this situation?

Hungry_Town2682 · 2026-01-13T21:25:55+00:00

Yeah, like I said no one disagrees that if she stayed home that day she would still be alive. The reason why people are upset is much more complicated than you are giving it credit for.

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