ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the archaeology of the outdoor movement and the German development. The 'original practice' of the outdoor movement – hiking – also had to undergo such a process of purification and reinterpretation from the necessity of craftsmen to travel to the joy of hiking of the bourgeoisie. However, this seemed somewhat easier, probably partly because the discourse of the Enlightenment, which was closely connected with the rise of the bourgeoisie, borrowed metaphors from the area of walking when presenting its principles. Those who did not yet trust their own eyes and ears in their search for this new feeling, for free nature and the pleasure in fear, used the templates offered by the arts, even if this did not quite agree with the principles of self-determined enlightenment. The bourgeois in the late Enlightenment did not walk through nature in the same way their grandfathers had done, who, lured by this new and open nature divested of its horrors.
