> I, too, grew up in this part of the world—my hometown in the Sichuan lowland was only a day’s drive away. But I was naive enough to think that training on an elliptical machine was adequate preparation to hunt caterpillar fungus in person
Yeah hiking up in those mountains really sneaks up on you. I work in agriculture scouting fields and so I’m reasonably capable of all day long activity in adverse conditions carrying light equipment.
I started off full throttle “it’s just normal walking on gravel except up a bit”, only to find there’s an invisible wall you cross passing a certain elevation where suddenly exhaustion hits and taking single steps is a big drain. It was actually kind of funny. It’s the kind of sudden exhaustion you get when trying to walk over grown soybeans, but with nothing in the way.
Yeah hiking up in those mountains really sneaks up on you. I work in agriculture scouting fields and so I’m reasonably capable of all day long activity in adverse conditions carrying light equipment.
I started off full throttle “it’s just normal walking on gravel except up a bit”, only to find there’s an invisible wall you cross passing a certain elevation where suddenly exhaustion hits and taking single steps is a big drain. It was actually kind of funny. It’s the kind of sudden exhaustion you get when trying to walk over grown soybeans, but with nothing in the way.