What drives your outdoors experience?

[benchmadebob]

• The experience of being surrounded by the natural world
• A sense of adventure
• The ability to wind down and truly appreciate the value of small comforts - a fire, warm food and drink, peace and quiet
• The inability to check my email
  
  
  
  
  
• The inexplicable fact that coffee brewed over a smouldering camp fire on a misty morning beside a glacial lake always tastes better than the same coffee brewed in the heart of a metropolis.

Playing with knives factors in there somewhere too.

All the best,

- Mike

this is the best answer so far IMHO food taste so much better when your camping and in the country

 

[pitdog]

I get ' Out there ' because that's where I feel really at home, somewhere I have more control over !!!

 

[Halbie]

I'm a gear head, to be sure, but it's the challenge and risk that brings me out hiking (no cell phone ever) and hunting. The silence, peace, and views don't hurt, either. Honestly, though, a new piece of equipment on an old trail makes it almost new again.

 

[myright]

sounds wacky but being outdoors for me is what I imagine church to be like for other folks..It seems to me like the answer to a question I've always had but could never put into words.... and the sharp things are cool as well.

I really can not have said it any better myself.

It gives me a way to clear my mind and give me time to sort out my thoughts and regroup.

I love trying out new things also, like the thngs I've learned on this site.

 

[zman308]

Nature. You can hike the same trail 100 times and each time you see or here something different. The scenery changes with the time or day and the season. In the US you can experience all the biomes from desert to northern forest. You learn something different each time you go out.

 

[Bushman5]

Simple: i grew up int he woods, spent my early years in the woods, had to move to the big city, hate humanity, hate the rush, hate the goddamn traffic (i drive in it 10 - 14 hours a day). hate the city, hate the sheeple

what do i enjoy about getting out into the woods? i get to build stuff with my own hands, i get to use my knives and tools, i get to breath clean air etc etc etc

 

[misanthropist]

I like to be places where it's easy to forget that people exist, or that human society exists.

Ironically I also like to read, and of course my survival is largely dependent and comfort entirely dependent on my bringing a bunch of stuff which wouldn't exist without human intervention on a massive scale. But that's what I like to think while I'm out: there is nothing to go back to, nobody left anywhere, no more noise or cities or disposable coffee cups. Just lots and lots and lots of books.

I realize this is a little warped!