mconnell wrote:

billisfree wrote:Can't one enjoy a nice day in the mountains without trying to be macho?

Sure. Just don't post about it here or all the people sitting in front of their computers will tell you how they would do it if they actually went outdoors.

Welcome to the internet.

billisfree wrote:Yeah right... real climbers start in China, paddle all the way up the Columbia R, hike from shore to top of Mt. Hood.

Where will all this bragging end?

Can't one enjoy a nice day in the mountains without trying to be macho?

Who is bragging?

Who is sayin' that you have to paddle from China?

I just stated that I have climbed the mountain from Govy. Who cares. There is a ski lift that takes you to 8500'. People ride it all day in the spring. It's not like Mount Hood from the South Side is some sort of rarely climbed peak. If they would let you, some people would snowmobile to the hogs back...

People used to summit St. Helen all the time on Snowmo's until the FS closed off the worm flows route to the machines.

Now, maybe if you start at Barret Spur or Tilly Jane or something like that, then I guess that is different.