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My friends that I frequently hiked and climbed with moved out of the state, and with the pandemic, I haven't really had a chance to meet new people. I really regret taking my friends for granted.
My other friends are gamers. They're good people with good jobs, but they spend their free time inside smoking weed and playing video games all day. We still chill out on discord together, so it's just a matter of having different interests. I'm not going to make a judgement call on that, just saying the facts, and that it does make it kind of lonely on the trails. I have to admit I get pretty jealous when I see other people with groups of their friends doing stuff outside together, but I'm confident I will meet more people again when the pandemic ends.
My family isn't very into it, and I discovered most of the outdoors on my own. Hiking for them is a forty minute drive into the mountains, walking ten minutes, having a picnic, and driving back. It's better than nothing, but it's not the type of all day hikes I like to do.
I haven't had much success in changing another person's interests. I can take someone hiking, but they have to enjoy it on their own accord. Sometimes people get bit by the hiking bug, so to speak, and they want to go. But they have to have that interest waiting to come out, otherwise you'll just get blown off.
