I completely agree with this! I took my friends on their first backpack to Cairn Basin last year and while they cursed my name the entire hike up (mostly because of bugs....and that I tend to "forget" about all that pesky uphill...aka the entire hike...hehe)texasbb wrote:In my experience, trying to choose something easy for someone's first time out is a waste. People either have the bug or they don't. No amount of coddling can give the bug to someone who doesn't have it, and no level of comfort disaster will cure the bug in someone who has it.
but the views and Cairn Basin won them over. BUT they also already enjoyed hiking and getting away from it all.