Experienced hiker today means they have a dirt hiking path in their housing development that the person walks frequently. They may hike a well marked hiking trail a few times.
My son is an Eagle Scout and experienced outdoorsman due to growing up in our household. The stories he tells me about kids his age and their total lack of anything outdoor related leaves me shaking my head. Stories similar to Hatari’s bear spray story. He is in the Air Force and none of the people in his SERE class had any previous outdoor skills. He was surprised how little most of them knew about even basic things. The number of people in the coming generations who have any outdoor/survival skills at all is very, very small from what I have seen.


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