>>2669011This is the outdoors board, not the hiking board. Hiking does not = being an outdoorsman. Kek. It is closer to a fitness activity than an outdoors activity for most people.
To be a real outdoorsman I think a person needs to spend alot of time in woods, in the same location, for multiple seasons multiple years... that's the only way to really understand the cycles of it all, the plants, the animals, etc. That's the only way to get to actually get to know a place and it really restricts it to people who live on the land. Being a good outdoorsman is a very local thing imho.
Walking a trail and making a camp is a fun activity, but it really has very little to do with being an "outdoorsman".
