Mostly true, but the edge cases where this is untrue for adults are interesting:
Climbing up may damage the thing you’re climbing (rock, tree) and render it impossible to return by the same route
Steep and slippery surfaces can be more dangerous to hike down than to hike up, because gravity is in your favor for arresting uncontrolled upward motion but exacerbates uncontrolled downward motion
Without a spotter, we tend to have better line of sight to things above us than to things below
If fatigue or injury is incurred on the climb up, one’s physical abilities may not be sufficient for the climb down
The title is what I say to little kids when they have climbed somewhere and want me to carry them down. I would prefer to be using phrasing that was literally true, but overall this feels good enough to me? Do you have suggestions for better phrasing?
@Raemon I’ve been playing around with “you climb up, you climb down”. This communicates essentially the same thing, but as “this is how it works” and not as a promise about the climber’s abilities.
Mostly true, but the edge cases where this is untrue for adults are interesting:
Climbing up may damage the thing you’re climbing (rock, tree) and render it impossible to return by the same route
Steep and slippery surfaces can be more dangerous to hike down than to hike up, because gravity is in your favor for arresting uncontrolled upward motion but exacerbates uncontrolled downward motion
Without a spotter, we tend to have better line of sight to things above us than to things below
If fatigue or injury is incurred on the climb up, one’s physical abilities may not be sufficient for the climb down
Yes, and Jeff’s point is that you should learn to anticipate this. The real claim is
Yeah I think mostly the title of the post isn’t quite the right encapsulation of the thing.
The title is what I say to little kids when they have climbed somewhere and want me to carry them down. I would prefer to be using phrasing that was literally true, but overall this feels good enough to me? Do you have suggestions for better phrasing?
@Raemon I’ve been playing around with “you climb up, you climb down”. This communicates essentially the same thing, but as “this is how it works” and not as a promise about the climber’s abilities.
Neat, makes sense.