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big depends on the "extremely exhausting", 450 ft isn't a problem for those used to hilly walks, but big deal for the very old, overweight and/or sick. I would change the "is" with "can be"
Sorry the warning sign didn't stroke your ego. Maybe using concrete language saves more people than unclear language to protect fragile egos.
It's a 33° degree incline with no place to stop. Sorry, but that's going to be fucking exhausting for everyone, not just fat fat fatties.
People get stuck down there all the time and require rescue. If anything, the sign isn't firm enough in displaying the risk.
Yeah and in addition to the incline it looks sandy. Walking on a sand dune is way harder than a firm surface since the sand gives way as you step requiring more energy
even cigarette box warning say "may cause cancer" and not "will cause cancer," concise language has a place
You mean precise language.
I'm so glad to be irony's messenger today.
This isn't a hill, it's a sand dune. Climbing back up it means climbing up sand the entire time. It's significantly more difficult than a hilly walk
They actually put this sign up because people had been getting stuck at the bottom, requiring rescue
I think after falling 450ft into a lake it would be hard for anyone...
Yeah. There's high diving and then there's high diving.
Looking through my photos from a trip there a few years ago, and I noticed something.
I had these two teenagers in a video I’d recorded exactly 27 minutes earlier - right as they began their ascent up the dune. It took them a half hour to get to where they are in the photo - about 50 feet (~15m) from the top of the dune.
In my first trip to that dune, I also had gone down to the water, while my partner at the time, a yooper who had grown up visiting these areas, stayed at the top. It’s arduous. And it is exhausting.
I know this place and I know people who almost got stuck down there. This isn't some 'hilly walk'.
It’s a very steep sand dune though, the tallest in the US in some places.
Every step up is 1/2 what you are used to, some places more like 1/3-1/4. There’s another sign about rescues costs, and there have been more than a few heart attacks happen there.
$3,000? What about tipping? Since they are saving you I think 20% bare minimum is right.
ah yes, this is better, this fatty at least was smart enough to take one step and be like "nope" even more so it if was going to cost me $3,000
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I see what you mean, and it's not ideal.
Two redeeming factors are that the “is” translates better. And that the overlap between {those “fit enough” people} and {people without any frame of reference as to how far 450 feet is} may be small. …though maybe not… heh