Anon goes hiking

Claims to be in the American wilderness

uses Metric

Some Americans do see sense.
- South Americans.
  
  Every red white and blue blooded American uses the foot!
- Perhaps lost some.
Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don't strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It's on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn't bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside...
- It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)
  
  Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says "50km" my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What's that, like 35 miles?
  
  Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.
Personally know several metric nuts who insist on using metric in their day-to-day life.
- Well, a metric nut would be screwed trying to go imperial...
- "Metric nut" sounds like there's a measurement to their insanity in the metric system
On holiday?
Ever heard of a vacation?
- How many inches is that?
A big chunk (a majority?) of the North American wilderness is in countries that use metric.
- No Canadian would go into the wilderness and say they went into the American wilderness…
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Family has never walked 300m

American

I swear yal post/upvote the most normie greentexts. Where's the crazy off the wall shit?

On 4chan
The crazy ones I've posted get downvoted to hell. People seem to equate laughing at Anon with supporting whatever craziness Anon has written.
- Lemmy has no chill lol. We might even be more prudish than Reddit. My guess is our demographic skews older so people here don't care for "dank" content as much.
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Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don't listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there's a common factor...

Maybe. On the other hand, 300m takes about 3-4 minutes, so you'd have to wonder about what the expectations were.

The best way to find people to go on hikes with is on hikes

Also good way to find psychopaths
I despise 99% of scp but that sounds like a fun idea for one.

I'm fat and lazy and still love hiking. I'd pull on my hiking boots and join in a heartbeat.

I'm neither and I love hiking but there's no such thing as a beautiful marshland tbh

Annon's family is pathetic.

Couldn't you have just asked beforehand though.

Unless you think he blindfolded them and forced them into his car, wouldn't it be safe to assume he did ask if they wanted to go? How else did they get there
- Idk man my parents were always dragging me to shit I didn't want to go to when I was younger. Yeah I knew beforehand what it was but it's more of a "we're doing this" rather than a "do you want to do this?"
- Everything is possible in Fantasyland that happens exclusively in your brain.
  
  Why does it make more sense to assume his entire family for some reason drove out there without listening than that he never told them what it's about in the first place?

Wish I could go with you

Lemmy hiking club when?

I would join a 4chan hiking club too but out of sheer curiosity alone.

Wta plug. Find one for your area.

I hate hiking. I just don't get it, it's boring

Agreed. I respect nature and it's beauty but I've never understood hiking.

Best I was every personally motivated to do was climb to The old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. 5km round trip. Worth it, but cold, raining and very windy the whole.steep-ass way up and down. My wife went 100m up with me and said "Fuck this" and turned around so I ended up doing it alone.

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Probably conservatives. "Why can't we just take our trucks to wherever you're dragging us?"

Bah. I don't have a car and go to national parks "nearby" (about 100 km) using my bike and one thing that I find unfortunate is the lack of public transit to those places. So usually, what one can find at the bottom of a hiking trail, is a parking full of cars.

It's not a matter of politics but more about car culture. Like, watch any YT vlogger and most will go to their hiking trails with a car, or even a truck, exclaiming that they love nature.

Personally I have to make compromises when I invite someone hiking and/or camping. That means leaving the bike home and going to the trail or the camp site with a car. It's unfortunate but it's just how most people see spending time in nature.