You also need these few things
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Health
The primary goal of outdoor sports is to promote participants' health. Outdoor sports are not competitive; don't neglect your body's limits in pursuit of a sense of achievement.
Outdoor activities for ordinary people (non-professional explorers) are not about adventure. There's no need to expose yourself to risks beyond your ability and control, or even jeopardize your own life.

Think of outdoor sports as fitness training, not a competition, and your mindset will be much more balanced. Health comes first—what suits you is the best. Never treat the outdoors as a contest or blindly compare yourself to others.
Don’t challenge your limits, nor take risks out of curiosity or competitiveness. Knowing when to give up on a route and safely withdraw is a sign of responsibility—to yourself, to others, and to the whole team. The mountains and rivers will always be there, but you only have one life.

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Self-reliance
During the activity, everyone is their own leader. You must take responsibility for the consequences of your own actions. Don’t rely on others or expect them to provide you with babysitting-style service. Being self-reliant is the first step.

Not causing trouble for other teammates is your greatest contribution to the team.. But if someone around you needs help, and it’s safe for you to do so, you should offer assistance within your ability to help the team and the overall activity go more smoothly.

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Self-discipline
The outdoor community promotes spending the least amount of money, traveling the farthest, and seeing the most beautiful scenery. This is also one of the differences between outdoor activities and tourism. The outdoors emphasizes self-guided experiences and maximizing savings. Thrift is a good habit, but it absolutely doesn’t mean saving your own expenses at the cost of others.

Some hikers take it for granted to freeload meals, drinks, rides, and beds. Some even steal from local farms or pick crops without permission. Every traveler has their own poetry and distant dreams, their own desired lifestyle, but why should a stranger on the road be obligated to help you? Why should others foot the bill for your freedom and dreams?
The essence of going outdoors is to adapt to local customs, respect others, follow the law, and avoid conflicts with local residents.In addition, hikers also need to understand and tolerate one another, control their temperaments, and curb bad habits to ensure harmonious outdoor activities.

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Respect
In the outdoor community, everyone wants to be the first to “try the crab”—to step into uncharted territory and admire untouched natural beauty.

When someone who considers themselves from the civilized world enters places of primal beauty, everything there deserves our respect.
That boundless, unpolluted beauty needs your careful care. As for the local customs and cultures, you should either fully immerse yourself or admire them quietly from a distance. Those who walk in with a camera and a look of disdain are nothing more than curious tourists—not true outdoor enthusiasts.
The most terrible kind is reckless plundering. There was an incident where, after watching a funeral in a Miao village, someone snuck back in the middle of the night to steal the intricately embroidered burial clothes off the deceased. Just thinking about that black-and-colorful garment hanging on someone else’s wall makes me feel sick.
Respecting nature and primal beauty is something every outdoor enthusiast must do.

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Environmental protection
Every outdoor enthusiast should have at least a basic sense of environmental protection. We come to enjoy the beauty of nature, so we must maintain and cherish these natural treasures. Try not to use disposable items during activities, take all your trash with you, avoid polluting the environment or damaging vegetation. If you’re able, encourage picking up non-degradable waste along the way (especially plastics and metals), making the mountains greener, the water clearer, and the skies bluer.

Without environmental awareness, you don’t deserve to be called an outdoor person. Furthermore, if through outdoor activities, people can learn and exchange knowledge about environmental protection, develop environmental consciousness, and continue those practices in daily life, then the spirit of outdoor sports is truly being upheld.

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Teamwork
A perfect outdoor activity requires everyone to perform their roles and take responsibility. Team members, leaders, guides, support staff... Without everyone’s unity and cooperation, a single weak link can ruin the entire trip.

People are like mirrors—you get back what you give. Be friendly to others, and they’ll be friendly to you. Help others, and they’ll help you. Many say choosing good teammates is more important than choosing a good destination. If you form cliques, refuse to help others, ignore your teammates, and wear a cold face all day, you’ll quickly become isolated, and your journey will turn miserable with no joy in it.

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Rationality
Outdoor enthusiasts are never short on passion—the urge to hit the road with a backpack would be as unimaginable as a groundless rumor if not driven by passion. But maintaining enough rationality is not easy.

It’s common to see people carrying small backpacks, full of romantic notions, ready to trek up snow-capped mountains. Likewise, it’s not unusual to see strangers planning adventures together without ever having met, or those who exhaust all their energy reaching the summit, leaving none for the descent—or who, with the summit just within reach, risk their lives to push on despite rapidly deteriorating weather.
Being passionately in love with the outdoors is neither right nor wrong, but venturing outdoors without rationality is.
Humans are truly small in the face of nature. Rather than conquering nature, it’s more about conquering oneself: conquering one’s arrogant and conceited thoughts, conquering one’s narrow-minded and selfish impulses—thereby continually seeking strength from within to better face life with a smile.
At such times, how to correctly assess one’s abilities and limits is a matter of rationality—involving a proper understanding of oneself.

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Safety
Nothing is 100% unsafe except the absence of safety. Safety is both a mindset and a way of life.Yet in outdoor activities, too many people overlook safety, too many act on impulse rather than knowledge and extensive outdoor experience—resulting in accidents during every major holiday, many of which could have been avoided.

Many outdoor tragedies remain fresh in our memories. Protect yourself, take care of yourself. Remind yourself inwardly: “Cherish life, stay safe outdoors.” Before every trip, ask yourself: “How far is safety from me, really?”

The true essence and meaning of outdoor sports lie in challenging oneself.
Cultivating sentiment, achieving harmony between humans and nature.
Engaging in outdoor activities
What matters most is having the right mindset in place.