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     No.4

    Racing: Skiing, Road biking
    Climbing: Mountaineering, Rock climbing (especially free climbing), Mountain biking
    Others: Hiking etc.
    I am speaking of the nature of these sports not the current state of focus of sports events. Even if I doing road biking I don't follow road cycling race-events.

    It is very interesting to notice that I always prefer "climbing" activities rather than "racing". Evola thinks that mountain-related sports could be categorized as ascending and descending, but this makes it tough to proper classify rock climbing, which are almost vertical, under the category of ascending. I think rock climbing and diving seem to be opposite-direction activities. However, rock climbing cannot be classified as ascending, and diving cannot be classified as descending. It just feels like this.
    Another observation is climbing activities are spiritual in its nature. Up to now, rock climbing is the most purely spiritual sport. One reason is when it is the case of free climbing, the equipment you rely on is minimal and you make most use of your body and mind. Another reason is that the process of rock climbing has a more subtle randomness and is confined to an almost two-dimensional plane with extremely small cracks exist which you would be highly dependent on. This is also where you make the body moving with wonderful rhythm.

     No.5

    We basically have three indicators to measure the quality of an outdoor activity:
    - Speed / time: the marching speed, exact speeds that calculated precisely by handful devices, such as the elevation gain rate for mountaineering or speeds in kilometers per hour in the case of road cycling. For hiking, it seems that the slower the better, normie-hikers feel like they are in a mode of "unplugged" so the slower, the longer the better. They can finally fully enjoy "the beauty of nature".
    - Routing design: for mountaineering it depends on the understanding of terrains and topography conditions. For hiking etc. :
    - expectations / predictions about the scenery
    - deliberate adventures: the direction of the route for the next few minutes heavily depends on the actual conditions of the previous few minutes. Real-time feedback.
    - Destination: the goal of summiting etc.

    The latter two can be confidently grasped before the outdoor activity begins. Speed depends on the experience gained from repeated training. For this I don't think speed is matter. Repeatitive body training is meaningless and boring.

    With routing design: you can take control and actively make decisions about the route in advance or in the moment, and if the route is poorly considered, it will definitely become an obstacle for the speed. In some extreme situations, it will affect the reaching of destinations or the boolean result of the summiting.

    Routing design is a mixed of many aspects of higher stuffs. That's essentially speculative. This conclusion is highly dependent on experience and the need to integrate thoughts with perceptive experience.

    Hiking is attractive to company slaves and they form very large groups for hiking together. They have also brought a certain commercialized style into mountaineering. To be honest, hiking is very striking for its "purposeless". Except for those who are really doing researches or field investigations, most hikers are just consuming nature in order to elevate themselves. They will immediately try to elevate their souls to a sameness state with nature, or deliberately maintain respect for nature. Hiking is not a modern outdoor activity. I would say it is actually very ancient and not really an outdoor activity.

     No.6

    >>5
    >Hiking is attractive to company slaves
    LMAOOOO I just found some epic words made by Evola:

    >we should save the mountains from the contaminating
    >invasion of tourists who attempt to conquer them by building their “civ-
    >ilized” base camps. I am not just referring to those faint-hearted youths
    >who bring with them to popular mountain resorts their vain, mundane
    >city habits (such as discos and tennis courts), and who snobbishly display
    >the colorful new equipment they’ve bought to use only for some harm-
    >less walk in the woods. I am also referring to those who tamish silent
    >and uncontaminated places with materialism and triviality, namely with
    >a competitive spirit and a mania for that which is difficult and unusual,
    >for the sake of setting new records.

    Evola is so successful of being a half-philosopher LMFAOOOOO