On big mountains you have established trails made in such a way hundreds of people who hike them every day don't die. On small mountains you're usually alone and instead of a trail there are just steep slopes covered with dirt that falls down under each of your steps and to descend you need to use your ass as a sledge and all limbs as brakes.
>>2847435For a hike, yeah. But for actual climbing, no.
>>2847435Where are you that anything big enough to be considered a mountain doesn't have a trail?
>>2847435I had my sketchiest hike on an unassumingly small mountain, yeah. Realizing you can't go forward or back the way you came because of the the terrain, it's beginning to rain and daylight is soon running out. That's scary. It made me understood how people can fall to their deaths in these situations.
I think that higher elevation mountains can get really intimidating with weather, and way higher commitment just due to the increased distances from the car. Some of the more isolated ranges in Wyoming have several mile walk ins and if the weather turns bad, or you get hurt it can be potentially life threatening very easily even with sar. But you can just as easily fall off some weird exposed section on smaller mountains in the east as in the west. I think the issue is primarily a matter of human traffic. Mountains with more foot travel regardless of height get ground in and trundled so there seems to be way less risk of falling rocks or bad footings in exposed spots. But there are also more people which comes with lots of problems of it's own. Like having to get cocksucking parking permits and other gay shit in Colorado.
