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New to the hobby, I've been trying to learn how to spend more time outdoors, with the goal of going camping eventually. Mainly my distaste of it has been about being exposed to the elements - I hate the cold, the heat, dry air, humidity, the way that wind stings, I loathe being in direct sunlight, and I hate how restrictive and uncomfortable outdoors gear is.
So I've been trying to systematically eliminate each issue - sunlight was easy enough to block with the right hat, sunglasses and sunscreen. I'm yet to figure out winter clothes that would be warm enough to make the cold tolerable without being so thick that I can't move in them.
While trying to break this down part by part and piece by piece, this is starting to feel like the same kind of thing as the people who insist they like coffee but in reality will only drink it in milk and syrup concotions that only really use coffee as an ingredient, instead of adding the other components there to enhance the flavour. The desire to make the outdoors more palatable by minimising the outdoorsy elements as much as possible, just the same as enjoying coffee but only when it doesn't taste like coffee.
As someone who drinks his coffee black, I'm going to make an educated guess that you people laugh at this kind of outdoorsmen. Am I right?