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Rise of the rookie hikers: The pandemic pushed a new wave of people outside, for better or worse


Rise of the rookie hikers: The pandemic pushed a new wave of people outside, for better or worse
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
Hikers rest at a viewpoint on the hike to the top of Hamilton Mountain in the Columbia River Gorge. Jamie Hale/The Oregonian
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When it came to hiking, Jordan Bishop always wondered what the fuss was about. A Toronto native, he didn’t grow up with much nature close at hand, at least not as glorious and as alluring as the natural landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
Bishop, 29, now lives in Portland, where hiking and camping are sewn into the cultural fabric, and communing with nature is essentially religion. But it wasn’t necessarily nature that finally drew him outside; it took peer pressure and a pandemic to get him to the trail. ....

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