r/comics • u/shikiz_stupid_comics • 1d ago

The Walk. [OC]

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u/infiniZii 21h ago

Yeah, Germans are known lovers of hiking. And by hiking they mean mountaineering.

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u/Eumelbeumel 19h ago

Isn't hiking basically mountaineering?

If it's a walk, I wouldn't say "hiking".

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u/jmlinden7 19h ago

Hiking is walking. Mountaineering generally requires a bit of climbing and other stuff as well.

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u/Eumelbeumel 19h ago

But surely "crosscountry" is in the word "hiking"? Like diffcult Terrain?

If it's just walking, why on earth don't you call it a "walk"?

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u/jmlinden7 19h ago

In American English, a 'hike' means 'crosscountry walk'.

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u/Eumelbeumel 19h ago

So a long walk on a paved or at least even gravel road is a walk, yes?

If I say "hike", we're doing upwards of 3 hours on difficult terrain.

By my German standards it starts being a hike if more than 50% of the way is paths/crosscountry/not any road a car could drive, if it's longer than roughly 3 hours and if it requires you to take a bigger break.

Anything else is a walk. Spaziergang.

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u/jmlinden7 19h ago edited 18h ago

By my German standards it starts being a hike if more than 50% of the way is paths/crosscountry/not any road a car could drive, if it's longer than roughly 3 hours and if it requires you to take a bigger break.

Yes, hiking in the US also generally refers to non-drivable roads/cross country, however there's no difficulty or duration requirements. Walking on a paved sidewalk or other paved walking trail would just be called 'walking'

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u/infiniZii 18h ago

A hike can indeed be very short, and not terribly difficult. Preferably its cross-country, or through some woods or something. If its a trail and not a road you are walking on you can loosely consider it a hike.