"If you say I’m not giving hiking a fair shot, well, I’m speaking from experience: I once went on a hiking date. It's true. This was several years ago, and I’d had two pretty decent happy hour dates with a man I’d matched with on Tinder. For our third date, he suggested I join him and his friends on a hike. I warned him that I didn’t hike regularly and would just be wearing sneakers, and he said that was fine, that it was basically a leisurely, casual walk uphill.

Spoiler: It was not leisurely. Somehow, instead of taking the easiest trail, the group ended up on the hardest. Part of the hike was so steep that it was basically rock-climbing. (Okay, maybe not that steep, but our hands had to touch the ground!!!) I finished the hike, but I was slower than the rest of the group, and my date was obviously annoyed about that. Once we drove back to the city, he dropped me off by a subway stop — not even in my neighborhood — and stopped responding to my texts. Yes, I was ghosted because of my lack of hiking enthusiasm."

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a32960278/hiking-dates-suck/

https://twitter.com/erikawynn/status/1274872060607676417