Listen pal, I wear shorts in sub freezing weather, but that's also irrelevant. You came here for advice, I gave you advice. Don't be an arrogant jerk.

70%+ it's wild.

Mount Major isn’t exactly like hiking in the Whites. It is low elevation, far below treeline, and a fairly short hike. I honestly wouldn’t consider it much more risky than any walk in the NH woods, though the top can get a bit exposed. Unless the weather is truly atrocious, I would think that anyone with the right equipment, ie winter clothes, micro spikes, would have no real difficulty summiting.

...you know I'm asking about the 1,700 ft hill called Mount Major, right?

If you think that's equivalent to one of the Franconia Range, then you're not the type of person I'm looking for advice from.

Do you want advice or to hear what you want to hear?

Holy fuck this country is doomed. But y’all will keep shoveling “fda approved” crap down your throats.

Your food. Corn.

Your meat. Fed with corn.

Your corn. Well, that one’s supposed to be corn.

Your corrupt, bribe accepting politicians keep allowing corporations to poison us while big pharma feeds us medications.

STOP FIGHTING LEFT VS RIGHT

POLITICIANS HATE YOU. FIGHT THEM

I have. Also I've noticed Japanese whaling ships off our coasts. Lots of whaling ships.

Get the comments to 69 lol

Out of curiosity when was this? We would absolutely never transport an interfacility psych pt bound nowadays outside of very extreme circumstances, and being a "suicide risk" would certainly not be one (most of my psych transfers would qualify lol). I understand that this sort of thing was more common in the past, however.

Why?

BMI itself may be a questionable measure of health but that is a different conversation

True 🥲

Glove warmers!? I appreciate your concern, but last weekend I hiked the highest mountain in the Adirondacks (plus two others), below zero the whole day, with a wind chill at the summits something like -30. I think I'll be okay below freezing for two miles, that's like light jacket weather.

Of course I'll watch for new snow, but generally stuff fully melts between storms around there, right?

I’d have to respectfully disagree with mental health only being a blip in nursing school. We have an entire semester devoted to mental health nursing (both lecture and clinical), whereas other specialties like gerontology and pediatrics only get a lecture. Very much agreed that it’s a tough sell, especially with the amount of abuse psych nurses have to be prepared to go through. I know one who had her wrist broken by a patient and another who was stabbed in the head.

This is so well said and I can attest to all of it. Today I finished my mental health clinical that had us working in multiple inpatient psychiatric units at a local hospital. I saw some patients that have been on these units for months, including a patient who has been in the behavioral emergency department for 6 months.
The oversimplification of this systemic nationwide issue is so misleading. Yes, it’s awful these patients are not getting the treatment they desperately need and deserve, but where do we send them when every other facility they could go to has no open beds? Unless we get an influx of funding, staff, and facilities (both inpatient and outpatient clinics in the community) nothing is going to get better.

For #1 bring everything, snowshoes, micro spikes, glove warmers, etc. We recently had an experienced hiker pass away climbing mountains due to being under prepared. Winter hiking in New Hampshire is not something to screw around with.

You know the saying: "When in New England if you don't like the weather, wait a minute, it'll change." It may not look like snow now, but that could change. GFS Model shows below freezing that weekend.

Edit: Since OP doesn't actually want any advice, and will personally attack you if you try, I will no longer be responding to them, I encourage you all to do the same.

You can’t out exercise a bad diet.

Yeah, it’s full of fat people from NH amazed that there’s restaurants other than Applebee’s and the 99.

Yeah you're right, sounds like a good plan

This is false. Have you actually walked the streets of Massachusetts?

Impossible to say that you WON'T need snowshoes, I would just plan on having snowshoes and microspikes for Mt. Major, and leave snowshoes in the car depending on conditions.

I've done several 4ks including Washington and I'm solidly obese

Sloths would do well in space, minus the vacuum.

Did someone mention sloths? Here's a random fact!

Sloths can swim and hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes!

OG Tea Party sloths in rusted Dodge Rams make up 36% of the NH fatties.

What, Vermont is better than us? that sucks. But Massachusetts, Connecticut, rhode Island, and even New York are better than us. We really suck.