Of course the original explorers feel that way! Heck, I sport climb, which at one point was nearly grounds for a beating in some circles. I think people worry

Of course the original explorers feel that way! Heck, I sport climb, which at one point was nearly grounds for a beating in some circles. I think people worry too much about hypocrisy. Arguments of the form "you believe X, but if we take X to its logical extreme then you yourself run afoul of X!" lost all weight with me a long time ago. Sure, in the long run all attempts to avoid the crowd fails, and of course you yourself are part of "the crowd" to some people. But human life doesn't take place in the long run, it happens in the time preceding it. I can enjoy my favorite backcountry spots (which I learned about from someone else, and so on) for some number of years before they are overrun with crowds, but the inevitability of them being run over by crowds does not take away those years.