What's in a Hike?

A collage as summation of my experience hiking. In all actuality it would have a hundred people all over it. No hate, just facts.  You wake up early to beat the crowds, cross bone-rattling gravel roads and hit the peak to try and catch a glimpse of Rainier. 

No lie.


It's not inherently bad, you know, for a hike to have so many people. Still, I've always found it ironic that we as a culture use the very machines helping destroy our natural habitats to go to them (nevermind our footprints on those places).
 So what's in a hike?
Everything, according to the hiking fundies here in and around Seattle. Not to say it can't provide some respite from our cities, but it's our attitude towards our cities (where the vehicles we use to drive away from them are destroying the cities in terms of human-living or walking) that is surprisingly similar to the attitude of hiking as some moment to be enjoyed or consumed. 
And I'm not saying I'm not guilty either of this, because I am pretty superficial, but I am saying it's indicative of a sickness still infecting our society (run away from the problems, don't fix them).
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