Stronkowski t1_itv5g6k wrote on October 26, 2022 at 3:20 PM

Reply to comment by SLUer12 in For those who have left Boston, what do you miss the most? by [deleted]

No, the views are a small part of it. Otherwise you should just drive up a mountain road and take a photo instead of hiking it. A good hike is supposed to be tiring.

And not a single brewery I've been to in the area has had air conditioning. This doesn't matter for 99% of the year, but when you get a week like happened at the end of this past July every sucks because the city hvac is built assuming that's not going to happen since it's almost always 70 degrees instead.

SLUer12 t1_itwr2z5 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 9:30 PM

Maybe I’m just in less shape than you. But plenty of tough trails out here on the west. It’s comical actually that you think the Boston area within a 3 hour drive have anything remotely close to the kind of hikes you can get in Seattle with Mount Rainier, Mount Baker in the vicinity.

Stronkowski t1_itwwjfm wrote on October 26, 2022 at 10:07 PM

You probably are, as I've done multiple hikes in the hundreds of miles distance (one of which was even out there in the Rockies). If you were a more experienced hiker than I am I doubt you'd have mentioned that possibility.

I've yet to do Rainier, but if it's actually got any grade or technicality it'll be the first for me out of hundreds of miles worth of trail out there. Being high elevation doesn't make a hike difficult, and switchbacks are boring AF. They're the treadmills of hiking.

Meanwhile, yes the Green and White Mountains have been tougher than anything I've found out west yet. Going straight up rocky terrain instead of winding around on a horse graded trail is a huge difference.