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      Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don’t strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It’s on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn’t bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside…

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        It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)

        Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says “50km” my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What’s that, like 35 miles?

        Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.

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          think fibonacci sequence and you’re in good shape

          34 comes before 55, then 3 comes before 5, so 50 km is (55-5) km = (34-3) mi = 31. It works shockingly well

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            This is so incredibly much complicated to me than just multiplying or dividing by 1.6.

            And also 55 km is 34 miles, not 31. I had to run it through a converter tool just to be sure.

            Edit: I reread your comment. The goal was 50 kilometers. Then the math checks out. Sorry!

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              just multiplying or dividing by 1.6 is about as accurate as my strategy in the other direction - the real value is almost exactly between them.

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                I guess as long as it works it works. I don’t have to do much of those conversions though. Here in Norway we are metric in almost all of our measurements. Except for some specialist measures like a carton of eggs is a dozen. We often say things happened a fortnight or so ago, etc.

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          50km is about 30 miles. An easy way to remember if you’re into fast cars is 0-60mph =~ 0-100kph

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      Personally know several metric nuts who insist on using metric in their day-to-day life.

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      A big chunk (a majority?) of the North American wilderness is in countries that use metric.

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    I swear yal post/upvote the most normie greentexts. Where’s the crazy off the wall shit?

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    Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don’t listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there’s a common factor…

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      Maybe. On the other hand, 300m takes about 3-4 minutes, so you’d have to wonder about what the expectations were.

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    I’m fat and lazy and still love hiking. I’d pull on my hiking boots and join in a heartbeat.

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      I’m neither and I love hiking but there’s no such thing as a beautiful marshland tbh

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        Idk man my parents were always dragging me to shit I didn’t want to go to when I was younger. Yeah I knew beforehand what it was but it’s more of a “we’re doing this” rather than a “do you want to do this?”

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        Everything is possible in Fantasyland that happens exclusively in your brain.

        Why does it make more sense to assume his entire family for some reason drove out there without listening than that he never told them what it’s about in the first place?

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      Agreed. I respect nature and it’s beauty but I’ve never understood hiking.

      Best I was every personally motivated to do was climb to The old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. 5km round trip. Worth it, but cold, raining and very windy the whole.steep-ass way up and down. My wife went 100m up with me and said “Fuck this” and turned around so I ended up doing it alone.

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    You are me. Except my nature hike is nostupidquestions on lemmy. My god these people are potatoes.

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      Bah. I don’t have a car and go to national parks “nearby” (about 100 km) using my bike and one thing that I find unfortunate is the lack of public transit to those places. So usually, what one can find at the bottom of a hiking trail, is a parking full of cars.

      It’s not a matter of politics but more about car culture. Like, watch any YT vlogger and most will go to their hiking trails with a car, or even a truck, exclaiming that they love nature.

      Personally I have to make compromises when I invite someone hiking and/or camping. That means leaving the bike home and going to the trail or the camp site with a car. It’s unfortunate but it’s just how most people see spending time in nature.