pyerger wrote:I'm looking for some ideas, about hiking, vs climbing. If your going up a mountain, when does a hike become a climb? Are all mountains climbed? or are you only climbing when, you are using your hands, and feet (scrambling)? Or is it climbing only when your using a rope ( class 4, or 5), What about glacier travel?
I would say if a person is scrambling, they are climbing . Just looking for some ideas, what people out there think?
At the risk of wrecking this thread by addressing the topic...
I still fail to understand how someone can get from 1,000 feet elevation to 15,000 feet elevation without climbing anything. Its quite a trick if you ask me.
This brings me to the conclusion that the difference between climbing and hiking depends on the size of one's ego.