Written by: Jeff Wozer
Posted: Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Take our quiz and find out what kind of outdoor person you really are.
1) When you hear “Eskimo Roll” you:
a) Recognize it as a
kayaking maneuver
b) Wonder if it comes with
complimentary soy sauce
2) Siskiyou is:
a) The name of an
Oregon mountain range
b) An undecipherable
Snoop Dogg lyric
3) The thing you fear most while biking:
a) A snapped derailleur
cable
b) No bicycle racks at
Dairy Queen
4) Your favorite mountaineering film is:
a) The Eiger Sanction
b) Sound of Music
5) Your last sports injury occurred during:
a) A seven-mile run
b) A baseball game’s
seventh inning stretch
6) Your main concern when camping is:
a) Staying dry and warm
b) Wondering if you
remembered to TiVo Nancy Grace
7) When you hear Mammoth and Whistler used in the same sentence you picture:
a) Two world-class ski
areas.
b) A large, whimsical
human being
8) Your glove compartment contains:
a) Pitons, carabiners
and topo maps
b) Directions to
Cracker Barrel
9) Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is to outdoor clothing
as _______ is to
mountaineering:
a) Ed Viesturs
b) Yukon Cornelius
10) A “great fourteener” to you means:
a) A bodacious climb to
the top of a 14,000-foot peak
b) A well-behaved
teenager
11) When
you hear the words “trekking poles” you immediately
picture:
a) Leki
b) Slavic hikers
12) Your biggest gripe with lip balm is:
a) You’re always losing
it
b) It does not come
ham-scented
13) On New Year’s you:
a) Took a Polar Bear
Club plunge
b) Ran through a
neighbor’s front yard sprinkler
14) The most difficult achievement in outdoor sports is:
a) Trying to scale
Mount Everest without the aid of oxygen
b) Trying to organize
drunks at a company picnic to play
volleyball
15) You can lose 30 percent of your body heat through:
a) Your head
b) Crocs
16) The one feat in outdoor sports you’re convinced you will
never witness in your
lifetime is:
a) Seeing a picture of
surfer Laird Hamilton wearing a shirt
b) Seeing a picture of
surfer Laird Hamilton wearing a shirt
17) When you see the titles Into the Wild and Into Thin Air
you immediately
think:
a) Outdoor adventure
books by Jon Krakauer
b) The author sure
likes the word “into”
18) The last time you slept in a sleeping bag was:
a) Last week
b) While waiting in
line for Christopher Cross concert tickets
19) A balaclava is:
a) A warm form of
headgear
b) A flaky,
custard-filled pastry
20) Your definition of extreme skiing is:
a) Bombing down steep
backcountry chutes
b) Skiing at an area
whose lift lines don’t provide complimentary Kleenex.
If
you answered A to every question, you are the type of person who spends 32
percent of your yearly income at ski swaps; realizes a spray skirt is not part
of a sassy clothing ensemble; refers to snacks as energy food; views golden
retrievers not as dogs but as disc golf hazards; and recognizes 29,035 feet as
the height of Mount Everest.
If
you answered B to every question, you are the type of person who thinks REI is
short for Reindeer; wonders which seasons apply to a three-season tent; thanks
Salvation Army bell ringers for keeping you safe from bears; refers to food as
exquisite; equates hiking with going out on a blind date with nature; and
recognizes 29,035 feet as approximately 14,517 people.
Jeff Wozer (www.jeffwozer.com) works as a nationally touring
stand-up comedian based out of Denver, Colo.