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Where do you hike where it’s a problem? I mean if I meet perhaps 10 people max over 2 hours. If all of them were blasting music it still wouldn’t worry me at all.

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We encountered this on the Inca trail in Peru. All it takes is one rude person.

If passing one person the trail playing audible music ruins your entire experience I'd check on your mental health. Seriously. I too can get mad at ridiculous things (line cutters, rude drivers, loud movie goers) and have to make a conscious effort to stop, take a deep breath and ask myself why I'm letting this innocuous thing effect my day.

Imagine the scenario where you end up hiking within earshot and in the same direction as another group.

Tip: Take a small break and within 60 seconds you'll be out of earshot. Also, I realize we're not going to agree on this and that's okay.

The same thing works for terrible drivers on the road, pushy customers at the supermarket, and all kinds of other bothersome interpersonal situations.

They can be optional. Just grant yourself a moment to let them go away.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Isn’t it unlikely that both groups share the same hiking speed for a while? And even if you have the same speed, take a break or pass them quickly.

This feels like a deliberate straw man. I never said it ruined my entire experience. Also, you go on to talk about mundane everyday interactions. I think if you flew to a different continent to do a multi-day hike meant to be a once in a lifetime thing deep in the Peruvian mountains, and someone was blasting music, you might be bothered. But your inability to empathize at all with another person makes me suspect you might just be a different variant of who we are talking about.

I encountered this two weeks ago on the Springwater Corridor along the river in Portland, OR. There were families out just trying to walk/bike/enjoy nature and every minute or so an idiot blasting music at the highest volume would go by, disrupting the whole experience. The first two I didn't mind, but after that it got very annoying.

I can't help but think it's intentionally deviant behavior, because any semi-ordinary person would at minimum reduce the volume to a reasonable level. But no, these folks have it dialed to the max, they want everyone within a 100 yard radius to know their shitty taste in music.

Many (surprisingly more reachable ones) parts of European Alps. But very few actually do that, I think they would experience a lot of aggression from others (certainly from me)

Japan.

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