Sometimes while climbing and tired of all the food I take to the mountains and cannot eat I have a desire for a hamburger, fries and soda (or cold beer), but obviously that type of food is out of reach till coming back to a nearby town in a reasonable time; otherwise, everything is closed anyway.

What if you reach the top of one of so many popular mountains and such fantasy could be fulfilled?

Guten Appetit!

There is a cafeteria on top of Mount Washington, the highpoint of New Hampshire. I forgot my lunch once and it sure came in handy.

Would be fairly fun to haul up stoves and make a hot chocolate stand on top of Mt. Shasta during one of the warm and busy summer weekends...very doable too.

clmbr wrote:Sometimes while climbing and tired of all the food I take to the mountains and cannot eat I have a desire for a hamburger, fries and soda (or cold beer), but obviously that type of food is out of reach till coming back to a nearby town in a reasonable time; otherwise, everything is closed anyway.

What if you reach the top of one of so many popular mountains and such fantasy could be fulfilled?

Guten Appetit!

That's hilarious!

With what a circus it is on the class 1 route (permits, crowds, wag bags, etc), a McDonalds on the summit doesn't seem too far-fetched.

Don't forget the long-debated ide of putting a Starbucks up there, too. Why not take advantage of the early-morning summiters that need a caffeine 'fix'.

We have state highpointers and park pointers (for those trying to reach the high points of the U.S. national parks), maybe we need a name for those who are trying to reach the summits where there is a food/snack provider. I'm trying to think of a catchy one for these intrepid adventurers. Snack pointers? Then some ambitious person can start a list here on SP--I'll offer up Cadillac Mountain (Acadia NP) and Glacier Point (Yosemite).

phydeux wrote:Don't forget the long-debated ide of putting a Starbucks up there, too. Why not take advantage of the early-morning summiters that need a caffeine 'fix'.

I don’t really drink coffee while climbing or hiking but for sure many would like that possibility, especially on the top.

clmbr wrote:

Nice! Free WIFI at the top of the East Face so all you millenials can update your Facebook with your latest heroic "missions".

Turns out you don't need WiFi to keep your facebook updated. I went up the Whitney Trail with my cousin and some of his family a few weeks ago. He would stop every half hour to take another photo to update FB with. He was genuinely unhappy when he couldn't get a signal in places. I wanted to grab it out of his hand and toss it into the talus.

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I'm waiting for a Chinese massage parlour to open atop some peak!!! You gotta have motivation to get up there. Every trip
needs a happy ending!!!!!

Well if there's gonna be a Chinese massage parlor, how about a medical marijuana clinic?

Oh look, here comes the delivery truck now, making a run up to the Portal!