hiking alone is the best - /out/

Anonymous07/21/26, 21:57No.2875316Hiking alone is the best

I went on a hike last week with some friends and holy fuck, never again. The whole thing became a photoshoot, non stop picture taking, I've never been so uncomfortable during a hike.

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Anon07/21/26, 22:11No.2875317

I can enjoy both but yeah I prefer hiking or walking in the city alone. You can disconnect and relax much better alone, with people you have to continually talk about something and if you are with annoying people like the ones you said constantly asking about things or taking photos or saying stupid things in general it becomes unbearable.

Anon07/21/26, 22:26No.2875319

I embrace being a hermit and I've become content with it. Both /out/ and in everyday life.

Anon07/21/26, 23:49No.2875334

>lacks a working theory of mind so the idea that different people can have different goals and definitions for something is shocking and not something to be inquired about with the other persons involved during the planning stage.

Anon07/22/26, 00:29No.2875338

Going for a hike with someone isnt hiking. Its hanging out wit a friend in the woods. Its a different thing and are completely different experiences.

Anon07/22/26, 08:44No.2875385

Get other friends

Anon07/22/26, 11:59No.2875395

>The whole thing became a photoshoot, non stop picture taking Sounds like my kind of hike. All I do is take photos, even when I hike solo

Anon08/06/26, 19:11No.2876909

>there are outdoor activities that you're not allowed to do alone

Anon08/06/26, 20:02No.2876912

My friends arent photo types, id say theyre great people to take hiking and they usually know how to have fun, climb logs, examine plants, etc. I wish I did more with them but I moved away and in my most active hiking years they only came a handful of times. Now I hike with my gf who doesnt take many photos she hates phones (hippy)

Anon08/07/26, 08:00No.2876937

>woke up yesterday wanting to see nature >took an hour long ride into the woods >remained there alone without any phone for the whole day >didn't eat anything apart from random rasberries I found there >returned late at night best hike of my life

Anon08/07/26, 08:14No.2876938

I like to hike alone for this reason because I like to take photographs and just sit and enjoy the scenery and look at the insects/plants/animals.

Anon08/07/26, 18:16No.2876989

I take tons of photos on a hike. It's helpful to have a broad catalogue of photos when you're trying to identify a plant in a new area later, especially if you don't want to sit there for 20 minutes. This does mean I'm going pretty slow though, since you can bump into a dozen or so unique species in a small area, so I'm used to that kind of pace. What about the photos on the hike made you uncomfortable? Was it the stopping and starting, or something else?

Anon08/09/26, 14:21No.2877126

You people should get over your social media contrarianism and take photos, not for others, but for yourself. Memory works with stimuli, and most of your memories are locked behind the right stimuli. If you try to just remember a trip from a while back you will only think of so much, but if you have photos you will find yourself remembering so much more, remembering how it felt or what you were thinking on the side of that slope, remembering the smells or physical feels of wind or sun or rain, remembering how terrible or great that section of trail felt.

Anon08/09/26, 17:51No.2877147

It was about the same experience for me going on a small trip to go hiking. These people were some of the lousiest friends I had so I don’t feel bad being this honest but one dude was a turbo weak. Spent his 25 years sitting on his ass playing video games being unemployed or doing WFH jobs behind a desk. His anatomy was fucked up severe duck feet. He had this fat pig girlfriend who would lie about having MS and other issues to avoid walking and get free shit like parking and priority onto planes. You already know how it went. They both started bitching 5 miles in, made the whole group turn back. The dude kept bragging about how much of an outdoorsman he was. Kept telling a fake story about how he got sent to Florida for some juvenile correction camp and how he had to fend for himself and hunt food in the Everglades (totally made up story btw he legit started quoting lines from “The Kay” about eating sea urchins lol). Kept talking about how he can’t stand rock stackers and all this shit like super liberal geek pretending to care about the environment for some virtue signal scheme levels of cringe. Which whether you like the rock stacks or hate them we can all agree that’s a classic talking point for these types of people even though they’ve never been more than a mile past parking anywhere. Dude spent the whole time making noise to scare bears away, spent the entire time insisting we needed to fight bears like not even joking dead serious (was a place with just black bears btw). I’ll never do that again unless I know they’re outdoorsy people who can hang and know wtf they’re doing. Oh yeah there was a point where his fat gf insisted she had fire experience so we let her build a bon fire what does this cow do? She plops sticks randomly in a pile douses it in 1/4th can of lighter fluid and uses a torch lighter lmfao.

Anon08/09/26, 17:54No.2877149

whoa you have friends?

Anon08/09/26, 19:09No.2877161

i always hike alone when i rarely take some friends with me its always lets not go by the map lets just walk along the roads or trails and lets take the most boring and easy route possible just to get it done with and why did we take this detour just to fish when we brought all this food with us when i go innawoods i go looking for some adventure and hardship to conquer not to spend a few pleasant days outside to break the tedium of nine to five and make it into some social media spectacle once or twice per yeari get that to some people spending an actual night at the woods is very special thing they dont get to experience very often and they have to make it into a big deal when to some that is just a normal day not to be documented

Anon08/12/26, 01:59No.2877381

The only non-fag about it died in a motorcycle accident, he was 23. We'd sleep out in all these management areas when we technically weren't supposed to be there. Good guy.

Anon08/12/26, 16:49No.2877430

i just got back from my pct thruhike and these fucking "new age" "outdoorsmen" are so gay. >walking around with little tiny backpacks >carrying fucking no food >walking 40 miles a day >weigh about 100 pounds soaking wet >sleeping on the ground with no tent >no stove >carrying around a fucking vape idk how you can be around these faggots, if some asshole starts hiking with me i just walk slow as shit or stop and tell him to go ahead. The worst part is they will make it known how much better they think they are than you, i love these trails cause they are very long and you can basically be homeless on them, but its gotten very oversaturated with normie scum doing it for the gram' perchance.

Anon08/12/26, 17:02No.2877434

worse part they don't even take any candid photos, ever picture is carefully calculated and taken with precision. NO FUN ALLOWED !! I went on hike with a group from uni and they stopped every 10 seconds for a picture and each photo shoot took like 15mins because they are so obsessed with getting the perfect angle and lightning. At the end of the trip when I asked them to send the pics all of the pictures looked like souless group photos they take at work for corporate.

Anon08/23/26, 21:06No.2878340

Yeah, it's either nobody actually fucking walk, or you're with some faggot that think this is a race. It's so much better to enjoy things at the actual rythm that you like best.

Anon08/23/26, 23:26No.2878346

I have one friend who i like to go hiking with. We both bring our dogs and it's nice. Although I enjoy hiking by myself just as much because I actually enjoy the nature as opposed to talking most of the time. When I'm by myself (with my dog) i literally just walk at a snail's pace and just try to take in the serenity of the nature. I find when I walk really slowly and quietly I don't scare away birds and other animals away too.

Anon08/24/26, 01:40No.2878360

Have you tried discussing designated photo places/times like adults? >Wife has 10k followers, not an influencer just good at taking photos >We go hiking to a place with ruined colonial homestead and cemetery >About two miles back over hilly terrain so not a lot of people >Agree to three spots to stop and taking pictures, and three random stops when she thinks a place is photogenic >Both of us have a wonderful time.

Anon08/24/26, 04:24No.2878367

When I go hiking with new people, I always go to a easy stole of a hike to sus them out, before dragging them up a real mountain. This way I know if they can handle a real walk or if they are just there for the nature. Nothing wrong with being there for nature, mind, but I want to know beforehand.

Anon09/13/26, 03:03No.2880100

My friend group mostly hikes, games, and BBQs together. Think we've taken hiking photos like twice out of a couple dozen hikes together. If it's not obvious, the group is all men.

Anon09/13/26, 06:28No.2880103

that’s because normgroids are insufferable and can’t connect with nature I always plan on going by myself too

Anon09/13/26, 06:43No.2880105

The meta is hiking alone, meeting other like minded solitary hikers and enjoying each other’s company at the summit or the campsite.

Anon09/13/26, 13:38No.2880134

How are you even supposed to approach people on a trail?