[babesh]

Generally, it is the upper middle class that travel to different countries to go hiking. The lower class aren’t traveling to Japan to hike Mt Fuji. Also, hiking Mt. Fuji requires some care.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10248155/climber-livestreams-d...

Indoor climbing is definitely a SF techie thing. Tons of tech people climbed at Mission Cliffs.

[bobthechef]

It's a behavioral shibboleth. They don't hike for pleasure or genuine reasons. They hike so that they can post a picture on Instagram. It's just a thing you do as part of the bland, petty, superficial, materialistic upper middle class bubble.

[selfhoster11]

As someone with family members who immensely enjoy hiking for non-status related reasons, I can confirm you are entirely incorrect. They started in a pre-Internet era and as far as I know, haven't changed their motivations since.