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I also belong to AMC, which is the largest hiking/mountaineering club in the northeast. But I don't go on their trip often enough to actually know the "usual" participants/regulars. So for me, that's really the same as meeting AZ'ers.
We're going into the wilderness following someone who hopefully knows the area a little, or a lot. Though more often than not, there're some of the participants are equally (if not more) familiar with the area we were going into. So there's a big comfort level as a group that we're "in good hands" (emphasis on the plural).
It's the oldest form of "crowd sourcing"
