> Only an idiot would go out into the cold in Alaska depending on technology that explicitly says it might not work for you if you have a hill or you’re in a weird latitude
Tell me you're not from the North without telling me you're not from the North.
I lived in the Yukon for 4 years, spent plenty of time up in the Arctic Circle (in early December the day time high temp was -48C / -55F.
Slept in a wall tent plenty of times bison hunting when it was past -50C / -55F overnight. All our thermometers stopped at -50C so we don't know how cold it was.
When you make a comment like yours you are showing you don't understand the life up there, and you don't understand why people choose to live in the north and go on adventures. The very, VERY vast majority of Alaskans say stuff like "I'm never going back to the lower 48".
People in the north want the adventure life, they want to take risks and they want to live. They don't want to live in a cage and have their water changed three times a day. Let them live the life they want without criticizing and without push your opinion of what is acceptable risk onto other people.
> People in the north want the adventure life, they want to take risks and they want to live. They don't want to live in a cage and have their water changed three times a day.
Doing okay til here, sport.
"You're insulting everyone in the north." And then proceeding to insult everyone else, all us cage dwellers. Perhaps don't throw insults at people you're telling not to insult you.
Let's be clear, it's not me insulting "everyone else", it's the people who moved from the lower 48 up to Alaska and say "They'll never go back because it sucks down there". It's an extremely, EXTREMELY common sentiment across Alaska. I personally think that means there must be something to it.
I suggest you try it. Get some on the ground perspective on what it is people are passing judgment on. Maybe there's something you're missing.
Hear, hear. If you live out in the middle of nowhere and it's routinely -50F in the winter, you have a different attitude than someone living in urban US.
Speaking as one who's only read about it :) But "Coming Into The Country" is a great book to read.
Tell me you're not from the North without telling me you're not from the North.
I lived in the Yukon for 4 years, spent plenty of time up in the Arctic Circle (in early December the day time high temp was -48C / -55F.
Slept in a wall tent plenty of times bison hunting when it was past -50C / -55F overnight. All our thermometers stopped at -50C so we don't know how cold it was.
When you make a comment like yours you are showing you don't understand the life up there, and you don't understand why people choose to live in the north and go on adventures. The very, VERY vast majority of Alaskans say stuff like "I'm never going back to the lower 48".
People in the north want the adventure life, they want to take risks and they want to live. They don't want to live in a cage and have their water changed three times a day. Let them live the life they want without criticizing and without push your opinion of what is acceptable risk onto other people.