Nah, they’ll be fine, well, fine-ish. The cops will see someone walking with a pack and arrest them for vagrancy before they can get into too much trouble from the elements.
But for real, I know next to nothing about this sort of thing and even I know 1. Do not fuck around with mountains 2. Do NOT fuck around with desert.
Oh, and one more thing: You’re not walking to Mordor, you’re walking through Mordor. There’s next to no water, the water that’s there is poison, the temperature swings wildly between extremes, and most of the humanoids you’ll come across will get angry and violent if they see you
There’s next to no water, the water that’s there is poison, the temperature swings wildly between extremes, and most of the humanoids you’ll come across will get angry and violent if they see you
So is pretty lore accurate
Yeah, the idea of walking through Nevada, when you’re not extremely experienced, is insane to me.
Going through that part of the country for the first time was wild to me because until you’re there it doesn’t occur to you that there is no shade anywhere. Even in an air conditioned car you will still be uncomfortably warm because the sun will be beating down on you for the entirety of daylight. I can’t even begin to imagine hiking through that, I’d be experiencing heatstroke within an hour.
Yeh. The walk to Mordor was much more hospitable than trekking across the American West.
I want to say that Mordor proper was actually pretty fertile agricultural land and that’s why Sauron was able to project so much power - He had a very strong industrial and agricultural base to operate from.
That looks boring as fuck, imagine walking across the Great plains. Just days and days of corn and grass.
Why don’t they do the Appalachian Trail or something else cool and normal instead?
You know, I think the last time someone did a long walk through Navajoland 3,500 people died and they wrote a national anthem about it.
Or you could go to New Zealand and hike from Hobbiton to Mount Ngauruhoe (the Mount Doom from the movies) in a quarter the distance, with more varied terrain, in a country with dedicated hiking huts, and probably chain together a bunch of hiking trails along the way.
But where is your sense of adventure? Where is the thrill of death lurking around every corner? Be it hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration, or Mormons.
Mormons
The worst of all, and not just the transphobia — you might even encounter Mitt Romney.
