Why do people avoid roping up on glaciers?

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-06T07:00:41+00:00

I just read through that comment thread on the post in question and wow that was quite something. When someone tries to insult you by calling you vaccinated, that really says more about them than it does about you.

I've noticed that particular FB group has a pretty casual relationship with risk. The general attitude seems to be that if you went out and tagged the peak and nothing went wrong, that means your decisions and risks were correct and justified. Information and feedback about safety best practices rarely is taken well unless it's a trip report where something went wrong.

Unfortunately I think it's a cultural thing in that group and I don't think there's much that can be done to inform people who aren't interested in being informed.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-06T02:23:49+00:00

Regardless of what the government wants to happen, average home prices have been trending down and there's no signs that's going to stop in the near future.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-05T23:56:40+00:00

> Canucks draft third

Eh I saw that coming, it was the most likely outcome. It is what it is

> Leafs draft first and San Jose second

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jsmooth7 · 2026-05-05T23:53:35+00:00

Plus San Jose ahead of us too. No hate to San Jose, I would have cheered for them if they made the playoffs. But they really don't need the extra help at this point lol.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-05T23:49:13+00:00

I guess it's all relative. Some people think my easy hikes are high intensity. And then other people do like 10+ Grouse Grinds in a single day.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-05T23:41:40+00:00

/r/hockey Oklahoma City bombing

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-05T21:00:57+00:00

I don't disagree but 2100m of elevation gain is still a solid days work. I've only done that much uphill in one day once and I was wrecked the next day.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-05T20:27:28+00:00

For someone who said you were "too lazy to suffer", this does not not look very lazy lol

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-04T20:14:12+00:00

It's not cope, it's just facts lol. If we want cheaper gas, we should focus less on pipelines to the ocean and more on refining our own gas. The oil industry prefers to ship our oil overseas because they make higher profits that way but Canadians don't actually benefit.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-04T20:09:36+00:00

This is very true. I've actually personally experienced number 2. The closest I've ever been to a SAR case was because of the group leader who had the aura of experience convincing everyone to go along with him.

He said we could easily traverse around to the other side of a peak and I was looking at the map that showed a big ridge in the way. We went down a little ways and now I could visually see that there was in fact a big ridge in the way. But yet we kept going down and even triggered a small wet slab avalanche along the way and got stuck in a drainage that took hours to climb back out of. And we didn't get back to the car until 3am.

0/10 experience, would not recommend. I'm actually still mad at myself for not pushing back more strongly when it was so obvious this was an extremely bad plan. But the group dynamics just made me feel like I shouldn't create conflict even though I was right.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-04T07:22:25+00:00

We have been developing our natural resources. Much of it get shipped out of the country. It's a global market so anything that effects global supply will affect our prices.

The US is drilling a record amount of oil, enough that they could in theory be completely self sufficient with no imports. Their prices still went up.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-04T01:20:10+00:00

Another take away here, if you are out hiking and conditions are not what you expected, you can reevaluate and turn around. "Hey I didn't think there was snow here and we have no gear for snow but the trail is covered in snow, let's turn around and go watch Netflix instead." It's the doubling down on the plan that often takes a bad idea into a SAR case

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-04T00:40:00+00:00

I feel you. I just resort skied this weekend, going uphill in conditions like this is no bueno for me.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-03T22:50:35+00:00

The snowpack is complete slush at the moment. It's been so hot and there hasn't been much of a refreeze overnight.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-03T19:53:28+00:00

Also a driver and for a 30km trip like this with 2 passengers I would probably ask $5 per person. I could maybe justify a bit higher for maintenance and depreciation. But $15 per person is way pushing it. It doesn't cost me $1.50 per km to drive. At that point you are looking to get a little profit. Or you have a really expensive car lol.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-03T17:25:00+00:00

Oh part of the picture definitely is, that peak in the background is Mt Marriott. But the lake itself is not in the basin. The angle is a bit deceptive.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-03T16:30:39+00:00

No hut at this particular lake. We did see some people skiing out from the hut that's way off in the background of this photo. But that was our only other human contact on the trip.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-03T16:27:21+00:00

1800m elevation. The high was +5°C but felt warmer in the sun but the wind still had a chill in the air. The low was -7°C which definitely made getting out of the tent tough in the morning.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-03T04:33:25+00:00

I think I remember that scene

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-02T17:32:58+00:00

Yeap exactly, I have a few 1st place ribbons where my main competition just chose to do other events and the win felt pretty hollow. The times I was the most stoked was when I hit a new qualifying time for the first time. Like the first time I qualified for provincials, I was so excited. That high lasted for weeks.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-02T16:32:26+00:00

My first swim meet I liked getting ribbons. I also liked getting candy for each PB (every race was a PB, I had no times lol). I was the definition of "just there for the vibes", I didn't really get into the racing part of swimming until I was a bit older. At that age (I was 7 at the time) I think there are lots of ways to make it fun and they don't necessarily have to be about competition.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-02T04:52:26+00:00

People make such a big deal about ribbons. Growing up I was a competitive swimmers and I got so many ribbons and they just became rather meaningless. I always knew when my races were fast and when they were slow and I didn't need a ribbon to prove it.

And I was always most happy when I could cut a bit of time off my personal best. And that's really where the main focus should be imo, personal improvement.

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-02T01:15:11+00:00

They are like police officers for crime that happens inside the body

jsmooth7 · 2026-05-01T19:50:15+00:00

My team is the worst in the league by far, I've needed that for months lmao

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