Dragostea Din Tei is also up there

I try to stay on trails, but that’s because theres a lot of trails up here that go through protected wetlands, and I don’t want to trample an endangered plant or something

See, I also interpreted OPs comments as being about more popular attractions, haha.

They spoke quite highly of the more wild nature preserve they visit and bemoaned the capitalist urge to take a beautiful and wild area, and turn it into a profitible tourist attraction that pulls the kind of hiker that doesn’t really respect nature.

I think local culture also has a hand in it. I’m in the Pacific Northwest, and we’ve got a serious hiking culture up here that is both obsessive and gatekeep-y.

I have been on hikes with rockhounds, and that’s been great, but they don’t call themselves hikers.

Yeah, I think that the distinction can be drawn. However, when I read OP’s article, I understood it to be about the more tourist-y areas.

Thanks! This was taken with my Note 8, which is a ten year old phone. It’s got dual cameras though, one for landscape and one for close-up shots.

I wouldn’t say “only”, but it’s certainly the most accessible for the largest amount of people.

I wouldn’t say there’s “no value” in seeing natural beauty. I just don’t think that visiting tourist areas is more valuable than finding the beauty that surrounds you on a daily basis.

Some of this is probably because I don’t have the money to travel, and it was really bumming me out that I couldn’t go anywhere “valuable”. It took a shift in mentality to realize that there is also value in the stuff right outside my front door, like these pixie cups.

You’re not advocating for walks around industrial estates or by the side of a busy road or just doing laps of your own home.

I can’t speak for SuperSquirrel, but I certainly advocate for that. I found a killdeer nest in the back of an industrial park not too long ago. Got a pic, and then talked to the property owners about putting up some flags so it didn’t get destroyed. Good times.

Yeahhhh. I have always hated hiking with a group, because I want to stop and look at the neat flora and fauna, then everybody gets pissy at me for holding up the group.

Fuck me for wanting to know more about the shit that lives here, I guess.

Oh that’s cool.

Oh shit, y’all got a course on shitposting?