I think there’s a useful point here, though I’m not sure the framing makes it clear what you want readers to take away from it.
Relevant personal anecdote: Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of visiting 38 US national parks, and even small differences in accessibility seem to greatly alter the makeup and mindset of the visiting population. For example, Zion and Canyonlands are not so far apart or so different in absolute terms. But, in Zion, which is more readily reachable from major highways and cities, many of the guests show up with no plan or gear, seem to think it’s acceptable to carve games of tic tac toe into stones, and need signs warning them that squirrels will bite you if you try to feed and pet them. Canyonlands provides a lot less handholding, because most of the people who choose to go there do so more deliberately, with at least marginally more understanding of what they’re getting into. None of these are anywhere near the level of preparation and skill you’d need to survive in a real wilderness, of course, but I certainly found it striking how the visitors to two different parks in the same state have such different expectations/needs for how sanitized they want their experience of ‘nature’ to be.
I think there’s a useful point here, though I’m not sure the framing makes it clear what you want readers to take away from it.
Relevant personal anecdote: Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of visiting 38 US national parks, and even small differences in accessibility seem to greatly alter the makeup and mindset of the visiting population. For example, Zion and Canyonlands are not so far apart or so different in absolute terms. But, in Zion, which is more readily reachable from major highways and cities, many of the guests show up with no plan or gear, seem to think it’s acceptable to carve games of tic tac toe into stones, and need signs warning them that squirrels will bite you if you try to feed and pet them. Canyonlands provides a lot less handholding, because most of the people who choose to go there do so more deliberately, with at least marginally more understanding of what they’re getting into. None of these are anywhere near the level of preparation and skill you’d need to survive in a real wilderness, of course, but I certainly found it striking how the visitors to two different parks in the same state have such different expectations/needs for how sanitized they want their experience of ‘nature’ to be.