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Yep. I met her and she was mildly /out/, state parks and rental canoes and stuff. She had never been camping. I started her on state park camping, then weaned her into backpacking. Now she's more adept at backpacking than pretty much all of my other /out/ friends. We've done trips like:
canoe to secluded island and spend a week there
3 night backpacking trips on trails in pennsylvania
9 day backpacking in colorado
3 night canoe camping on the delaware river
various mountain hikes.
So, it's not impossible at all, you just have to go slow and take baby steps.