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    • Astro wrote:

      max.patch wrote:

      the closest ski resort :) to me is cloudmont in alabama. 1,800 elevation. state of the art rope tow. does that count?
      I would have thought Scaly Mountain, SC would be fairly close also.
      Hey man, that ain't in SC.....Why ya gotta blaspheme us like that???

      SarcasmTheElf wrote:

      Drybones wrote:

      If the seat of your pants wears out before the legs you may have a problem.
      James Brown would have disagreed.

      Now JB, on the the other hand, IS from SC. Whoa!!! Jump Back!!!

      Or should I say, WAS.....
      If your Doctor is a tree, you're on acid.

    • max.patch wrote:

      i'm not a fan of james brown so i don't know his backstory; he may be from sc but for some reason he was a big georgia football fan. i saw him several times in the 80's singing and dancing at uga football games.
      Back then U of GA had better football than SC or Clemson.
      The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
      Richard Ewell, CSA General

    • Buddy of mine from the Navy days, Everett Miller, was from Scaly, Mtn. He married this chick and got blessed with the Instafamily after he got out. He asked me if I would bring him a deer to help curb some of his grocery cost so I obliged. When I took it to him that was the first time I had ever seen the infamous "Ski Scaly".....lol. Wow.

      It's a hill.

      With grass on it.

      [IMG:http://www.highlandsinfo.com/Snow08jan20scaly.jpg]
      If your Doctor is a tree, you're on acid.

    • rafe wrote:

      If you've lived at sea level most of your life, doing anything at all at 13,000 feet will have you seeing stars.

      My first (only?) experience of that sort of vertical-change was driving from Hilo to the top of Mauna Kea in a rental car. The car barely made it to the top. Carb was adjusted for seal level, natch. When I stepped outside at the summit to wander about, I was amazed how hard it was to just breathe properly.
      I had the same problems when we visited Pike's Peak in Colorado.
      Here on Long Island the highest point is a whopping 410 feet.

    • To get ready for climbing stairs at Amicalola SP, I tried out the stairmaster at my gym. Wow, that thing gets you sweating in no time.

      First I ran a mile on the dreadmill to warm up then did 30 min on the stairmaster. I went pretty slow, alternating between 60-80 steps/min. I don't know how accurate the simulation is but I hope it'll make climbing a little easier.
      Lost in the right direction.

    • TrafficJam wrote:

      To get ready for climbing stairs at Amicalola SP, I tried out the stairmaster at my gym. Wow, that thing gets you sweating in no time.

      First I ran a mile on the dreadmill to warm up then did 30 min on the stairmaster. I went pretty slow, alternating between 60-80 steps/min. I don't know how accurate the simulation is but I hope it'll make climbing a little easier.
      At 60 steps/min, you should do 600 steps in 10 minutes. The trail rises 725 feet from the trailhead to the top of the falls, roughly half the height of the Empire State Building. Some of that is paved walkway, and the rest stairs. I am not sure how high your steps or the steps at AFSP are.
      I am human and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does

    • TrafficJam wrote:

      To get ready for climbing stairs at Amicalola SP, I tried out the stairmaster at my gym. Wow, that thing gets you sweating in no time.

      First I ran a mile on the dreadmill to warm up then did 30 min on the stairmaster. I went pretty slow, alternating between 60-80 steps/min. I don't know how accurate the simulation is but I hope it'll make climbing a little easier.
      "dreadmill" - I like that. :)
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    • jimmyjam wrote:

      TrafficJam wrote:

      To get ready for climbing stairs at Amicalola SP, I tried out the stairmaster at my gym. Wow, that thing gets you sweating in no time.

      First I ran a mile on the dreadmill to warm up then did 30 min on the stairmaster. I went pretty slow, alternating between 60-80 steps/min. I don't know how accurate the simulation is but I hope it'll make climbing a little easier.
      "dreadmill" - I like that. :)
      I liked that too, because I hate the treadmill so much. I would so much rather be outside. In December and January I went to the gym a lot, but now I am trying to get outside as much as possible, and walking through connected buildings and up and down stairs when I can not.
      The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
      Richard Ewell, CSA General

    • TrafficJam wrote:

      To get ready for climbing stairs at Amicalola SP, I tried out the stairmaster at my gym. Wow, that thing gets you sweating in no time.

      First I ran a mile on the dreadmill to warm up then did 30 min on the stairmaster. I went pretty slow, alternating between 60-80 steps/min. I don't know how accurate the simulation is but I hope it'll make climbing a little easier.
      You're good-to-go.
      I may grow old but I'll never grow up.

    • I use the treadmill first thing as a warm up at gym, I'm still rehabbing the knee so I'm gradually increasing speed, now set speed on 3.5 mph and incline on 2 degrees and increase degrees by one every minute, by the time I reach 10 degrees it starts getting warm.
      I may grow old but I'll never grow up.

    • Drybones wrote:

      TrafficJam wrote:

      To get ready for climbing stairs at Amicalola SP, I tried out the stairmaster at my gym. Wow, that thing gets you sweating in no time.

      First I ran a mile on the dreadmill to warm up then did 30 min on the stairmaster. I went pretty slow, alternating between 60-80 steps/min. I don't know how accurate the simulation is but I hope it'll make climbing a little easier.
      You're good-to-go.
      I'm not so sure, it's different with a 20lb pack. :)
      Next time I'm going to wear a weighted day pack. And I don't believe in the accuracy of those machines. Today it said I had around 850' elevation gain.
      Lost in the right direction.

    • jimmyjam wrote:

      TrafficJam wrote:

      To get ready for climbing stairs at Amicalola SP, I tried out the stairmaster at my gym. Wow, that thing gets you sweating in no time.

      First I ran a mile on the dreadmill to warm up then did 30 min on the stairmaster. I went pretty slow, alternating between 60-80 steps/min. I don't know how accurate the simulation is but I hope it'll make climbing a little easier.
      "dreadmill" - I like that. :)
      I think it originated from Grinder.
      Lost in the right direction.

    • I was a member of a gym once. Told the nice young man running it that I was going to walk the Bib. He said that with a good year long program that he could organise he thought that I should be able to do that. Stopped going a week or two later. Two months later I did the Bib about 20 - 30% faster than the average.
      Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait.

    • WanderingStovie wrote:

      Every week I walk past a gym with 25 pounds in my pack so the people on the treadmills can see what a real hiker looks like. Sometimes I do it in shorts, even if it is near freezing.

      My hometown has a ultra fancy gym that is next to a supermarket. The ground level of gym has floor to ceiling windows and the treadmills used by the trophy wives are set up looking onto the parking lot.

      When my sister and her friends were in high school, they used to go to the supermarket and buy one of those super cheap gallon tubs of ice-cream and then walk across the lot, stand in front of those windows by the treadmills and eat the ice cream out of the container while taunting the runners. :thumbsup:
      Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.

    • SarcasmTheElf wrote:

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      Every week I walk past a gym with 25 pounds in my pack so the people on the treadmills can see what a real hiker looks like. Sometimes I do it in shorts, even if it is near freezing.
      My hometown has a ultra fancy gym that is next to a supermarket. The ground level of gym has floor to ceiling windows and the treadmills used by the trophy wives are set up looking onto the parking lot.

      When my sister and her friends were in high school, they used to go to the supermarket and buy one of those super cheap gallon tubs of ice-cream and then walk across the lot, stand in front of those windows by the treadmills and eat the ice cream out of the container while taunting the runners. :thumbsup:
      In my case, there is a laundry between the supermarket and the gym. Dollar General is on the other side of the gym. If I am in shorts, it is because my other clothes are in the laundry.
      I am human and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does

    • SarcasmTheElf wrote:

      Throwing my back out last week definitely was not a good way to build endurance... Fortunately I'm pretty certain it was only muscular.
      That's an area I have too much experience in, torn mine up twice, muscle spasms tighten muscles to the
      point they tear when used, first time getting out from under the wife's car after changing oil, second time playing tennis, still have issues due to scare tissue I'm assuming.
      I may grow old but I'll never grow up.

    • SarcasmTheElf wrote:

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      Every week I walk past a gym with 25 pounds in my pack so the people on the treadmills can see what a real hiker looks like. Sometimes I do it in shorts, even if it is near freezing.
      My hometown has a ultra fancy gym that is next to a supermarket. The ground level of gym has floor to ceiling windows and the treadmills used by the trophy wives are set up looking onto the parking lot.

      When my sister and her friends were in high school, they used to go to the supermarket and buy one of those super cheap gallon tubs of ice-cream and then walk across the lot, stand in front of those windows by the treadmills and eat the ice cream out of the container while taunting the runners. :thumbsup:
      How cruel...........I like it!
      I may grow old but I'll never grow up.

    • Drybones wrote:

      SarcasmTheElf wrote:

      Throwing my back out last week definitely was not a good way to build endurance... Fortunately I'm pretty certain it was only muscular.
      That's an area I have too much experience in, torn mine up twice, muscle spasms tighten muscles to thepoint they tear when used, first time getting out from under the wife's car after changing oil, second time playing tennis, still have issues due to scare tissue I'm assuming.
      I can only imagine. I had a foot cramp up like that. I thought I was just stretching, but the muscles in my foot had other ideas. I quickly learned not to try stretching like that again.
      I am human and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does

    • WanderingStovie wrote:

      Drybones wrote:

      SarcasmTheElf wrote:

      Throwing my back out last week definitely was not a good way to build endurance... Fortunately I'm pretty certain it was only muscular.
      That's an area I have too much experience in, torn mine up twice, muscle spasms tighten muscles to thepoint they tear when used, first time getting out from under the wife's car after changing oil, second time playing tennis, still have issues due to scare tissue I'm assuming.
      I can only imagine. I had a foot cramp up like that. I thought I was just stretching, but the muscles in my foot had other ideas. I quickly learned not to try stretching like that again.
      I popped the a quad in two playing softball once, took longer to recover than a leg I had broken in two places.
      I may grow old but I'll never grow up.

    • WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?
      No. We call elevators lifts but elevator is acceptable (so much US tv). Escalators are escalators.
      One of my pet hates is how an escalator saps the ability to move their legs from most people. You're walking behind a healthy 20 something who walks briskly to an escalator and stops dead when they step on it, crawling up at less than 1mph.
      Etiquette here expects people who do that to keep to the left to allow others to walk past. Like most etiquette not always adhered to, especially by the young.
      Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait.

    • OzJacko wrote:

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?
      No. We call elevators lifts but elevator is acceptable (so much US tv). Escalators are escalators.One of my pet hates is how an escalator saps the ability to move their legs from most people. You're walking behind a healthy 20 something who walks briskly to an escalator and stops dead when they step on it, crawling up at less than 1mph.
      Etiquette here expects people who do that to keep to the left to allow others to walk past. Like most etiquette not always adhered to, especially by the young.
      What little English I know, I learned from BBC and Encyclopedia Britannica.
      I am human and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does

    • OzJacko wrote:

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?
      No. We call elevators lifts but elevator is acceptable (so much US tv). Escalators are escalators.One of my pet hates is how an escalator saps the ability to move their legs from most people. You're walking behind a healthy 20 something who walks briskly to an escalator and stops dead when they step on it, crawling up at less than 1mph.
      Etiquette here expects people who do that to keep to the left to allow others to walk past. Like most etiquette not always adhered to, especially by the young.
      In Manhattan the escalator etiquitte of stay Righ to stand and stay Left to walk is taken very seriously. Standing still on the left side or the middle of a busy escallator puts one at immediate risk if being shoved out of the way.
      Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.

    • SarcasmTheElf wrote:

      OzJacko wrote:

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?

      WanderingStovie wrote:

      I thought what Americans call an elevator is otherwise known as a lift. Is it that way with escalators as well?
      No. We call elevators lifts but elevator is acceptable (so much US tv). Escalators are escalators.One of my pet hates is how an escalator saps the ability to move their legs from most people. You're walking behind a healthy 20 something who walks briskly to an escalator and stops dead when they step on it, crawling up at less than 1mph.Etiquette here expects people who do that to keep to the left to allow others to walk past. Like most etiquette not always adhered to, especially by the young.
      In Manhattan the escalator etiquitte of stay Righ to stand and stay Left to walk is taken very seriously. Standing still on the left side or the middle of a busy escallator puts one at immediate risk if being shoved out of the way.
      On a similar note...
      IM and I had to get used to passing oncoming hikers on the right on the AT. It was harder than driving on the right which I felt that I adapted to pretty easily.
      When my friend Plethodon walked the Bib in 2014, he had the reverse. We kept stressing to him to look both ways before commencing to cross a road. He confessed that at one small town it was almost his undoing.
      Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait.