I rarely vehicle car camp but have done so with a few others twice in the last couple years that was much fun. Camping and being able to enjoy the experience is not guaranteed as one will need to potentially mitigate a list of potentially negative factors. Regardless of how magnificent, inspiring, and beautiful an area one is camping at. And such is not something one can attain merely by guide book learning, talking to those experienced, or having the best modern gear. Thus one also needs experience, as there will be considerable learning by trial and error.
Even more difficult is backpacking in remote wilderness, an activity I learned decades ago by trial and error to become highly skilled at. With backpacking camping, the vastness, complexity, and myriad environments of Earth nature means even the most accomplished will be learning how to cope successfully over many years and will in any case need to endure some periods of considerable strenuous effort and unpleasantness. And yes those more intelligent that can plan and independently figure things out are more apt to be successful that is reflected in the kind of people one finds in backpacking communities. The majority of individuals that take up that challenge never do so more than a couple times and usually within groups of others, because they fail and don't see a path to success.
Here in California, most urban people first try camping in our Sierra Nevada range at higher elevations. They can sense the beauty in such places but don't at all understand what they are experiencing and seeing beyond simple descriptions, of a tree, a bush, a yellow flower, a stone, a boulder, and the like. Thus their interest in what they see quickly fades with impatience as they retreat to things they know. One can see this any morning in famous Yosemite Valley.
People drive into the park from outside lodging, not when the sun rises, when there are few other vehicles arriving, and all is most beautiful during early morning, but rather after they have spent early hours at lodging drinking coffee, eating breakfast, using bathrooms, gathering gear, before driving off for miles late mornings in longs chains of cars on then crowded highways, that then need to pass through the backed-up entrance gate kiosks, and pay $25.
When they arrive in the park, their mouths gape open, they stop at scenic pull-outs where many others are doing the same, take a few selfie photos with their smartphones, look at others to see what everyone is supposed to be doing and looking at. Within 5 minutes at each pull-out, their patience has ended so bored they drive off repeating the same pattern a half dozen times before reaching Yosemite Village with its packed food and trinket market, several small restaurants, and a few exhibits.
There, they spend an hour in the market, buy some food and trinkets, then go outside and sit a half hour on benches looking at other people instead of any scenery before getting in line to go in one of the crowded restaurants. After that it is mid afternoon and they'll get on a shuttle bus to some trailhead, and maybe 10% of them will actually hike a half mile along one of the popular short trails, about all they are fit enough to challenge.
By 5pm are back at their car whereupon all they are thinking about is driving back out of the park to lodging, eating, then in their rooms watching TV, and playing video games on their smartphones. So overall after entering the park, they've spent 10% of the time looking at and enjoying scenery and the rest of the time at the facilities, people watching just as they do in their urban world.
Another common scenario is with those that visit higher elevation campgrounds mid summer during mosquito season. Almost all are ignorantly wearing the wrong kind of protective clothing... hiking shorts, cotton short sleeve t-shirt, baseball cap, with a plastic bottle of watered down 25% DEET repellent in their pockets. Mosquitoes readily attack all their open skin areas, regardless of the weak sweated off repellent, and bite right through their cotton t-shirts.
If they hike any trails, the trail dust including horse turd dust coats their legs, they sweat, feel sticky, stinky, itchy from bites, and grubby. Even though there are small lakes and streams all over, the last thing they consider doing is dunking themselves in such waters because those waters are chilly without realizing simply getting fully underwater for a few short seconds before quickly jumping back out will make them feel enormously refreshed and clean. And NO they won't die from a 5 second cool water dunking.
Then at night get into their new expensive clean sleeping bags inside a tent and contaminate the linings (that are difficult to clean later) with all the dirt and grubbiness, finding sleeping difficult. Of course because many didn't bother applying any sunscreen, their faces and exposed body parts have a red glow they unpleasantly endure every moment during the night, further preventing sleep. And even if they applied sunscreen, at night are endless unfamiliar sounds their hyperactive brain won't ignore, nearby snorers, those rowdy types drinking around campfires till late at night, animal and pet sounds, and other weirdness.
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