>>1370143This due gets it. Though it depends a lot on how you approach the hike itself. If you're just following the guides and the planning in them, if you're walking with the crowds, if you allow others to navigate for you and so on, it's one experience.
But if you're often going solo or in small groups ahead of the pack, so the path isn't beaten before you arrive, if you're happy to take detours and navigate yourself, it's a different experience.
Still the trails are too well documented, too well marked, too popular, too comfortable most of the time to represent the general hiking activity.
