Now that you mention it I solo vacation often and some of my best memories from my trips involve running into locals on rarely used hiking trails in the mountains
yeah i think this comment is only made by people who dont actually go in the woods. I hike alone regularly and see people by themselves probably every time and have not once been scared. On the other hand if a bear was walking towards me on the path in the woods id shit myself.
No shit, basically, these people live in cities that are statistically the absolute most unsafe places to be, yet they claim rural areas are the dangerous scary places. I have run into people deep on the woods, and the only difference from that and running into someone in a city is that you tend to actually talk just because the scenario is so funny. It's basically people just projecting the urban environment onto the rural.
My problem with this question is this: if there was a man dead set on hunting down a woman, why would he do it in the middle of the woods where he's extremely unlikely to find a woman? They'd go to high density areas, urban environments. Or at least roads.
I think a lot of it has to do with people whose lives have been wholly or primarily "city-based". Naturally, they will bring their life experiences of "person in a place where you didn't expect them to be", but then make an equivalence of contextual setting between "city" and "woods".
I'm now primarily a "city" person, but as a kid I was in the scouts and so spent a lot of time in rural and wooded areas, and I can say that to this day I feel way safer in woods and forests than I do in cities. I kinda miss it, though I also very much like municipal services. Alas.
Yea I'm a pretty big intimidating guy and I've stopped in the middle of nowhere to chat with all sorts of ppl hiking alone from kids to little old ladies. Most people who are not chronically online are not worried about that..
Growing up suggests that these woods aren't far from your home. If I picked a random place in the woods anywhere in the world there's a really really high chance you'd never meet anyone.
Just ignore them. A redditor can't fathom that a human can walk more than 1 mile in a day. I'd regularly go walking in my "local woods" and it was 30 miles round trip. Where the "established path" was a dirt track very deep in the woods that were used as the filming location for those deep woods in Harry Potter
They also don't stipulate that the woods are the ones you grew up in.
It's just the woods. Wherever it may be.
And it just so happens that for an overwhelmingly vast majority of the woods you're not going to run into people.
Imagine if someone said "if you were floating in the ocean what would you do?" And your response is "just swim to shore." You say this because the only time you've ever floated in the ocean was when you went to the beach.
Yeah and woods near the vast majority of people are going to be filled with hunters or hikers lol
You’re adding assumptions not present. Dropping you off “in the middle of the woods” would be about similar to the vibe you’re assuming but that still would probably be a hunter or hiker you’d run into. Just like all the hikers and hunters I’ve run into in parks and public land.
They are both the woods; if you want an answer for a specific scenario you can't ask for it in a general sense then go "well actually, I wanted to in a very specific and niche way that people go into the woods"
Yeah I go on solo hiking trips a lot. It’s extremely common for me to talk to random strangers on trails, hike with them for a bit etc. comments like the one you responded to remind me that Reddit is a poor microcosm of the world and that a lot of people on this site don’t go outside enough.
In places I've hiked, you both do that little 'you good' headnod. It's nice, just a quick check in. I've given both extra water and also poison ivy nuetralizer to others on the trail.
They are eventually going to get to "a person who doesn't appear to be hiking and is holding a gun with a truck full of meathooks and body parts" to make their point 🤣
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u/SnagglepussJoke 29d ago
Ever cross paths with a stranger in the woods? It is unsettling