>>1750416This is good advice, but OP, you need to change your mentality a bit. Going outdoors isn't really a competitive sport, it's not about flexing on other people or gaining prestige. It's about something you enjoy. The people who get prestige are going to be, say, people who devote their entire lives to high altitude climbing. Their entire lives. A good number of them die, too. And they didn't even get into it for prestige, they all got into it because they liked climbing mountains. Outside of stuff like that, "prestige" would be shows of wealth - things like fox hunting in Europe, on horseback, wearing a $5000 outfit, and I doubt that's what you're looking for either. Sailing is upper class stuff but that's mostly because it's hilariously expensive, boats are just holes in the water that you pour money into. Shooting is expensive but not really /out/. Hunting is definitely /out/ but you've got to figure out if you're the sort of person who's ok with sitting in place with a rifle for hours on end, waiting for deer to come along so you can pop one and then haul it out of the woods.
So yeah, go grab a tent and a sleeping bag and a backpack and get out somewhere where you can hike a few miles to a camp and sleep overnight. See if you like it. Pick up a cheap chinesium fishing rod and go cast a line. Look for places that seem like they'd be fun to visit, do something there. Want to sail? Charter a boat for a day, or take a small boat sailing class.
Drop a bit of money on entry level stuff, see if you like it enough to devote a significant amount of time and money to it. I did with guns, picked up an SKS when they were cheap and fell in love with shooting and now I've got a big arsenal with neat shit - last purchase was an 89s era Soviet night vision scope.
Just find what you like and do it, and don't be kiked into dumping lots of money into things you're not sure you like.
