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You have, if I may say so, a very citified definition of outdoorsman. Any of those activities, once a month?

As someone who goes for long walks in the woods on a weekly basis, and goes on several weekend camping trips every summer.. I feel my own claim to "outdoorsman" is pretty shabby. I pale in comparison to the people who go to two-week-long hunting trips in the middle of nowhere every summer, or who head for the hills Friday afternoon every weekend all summer, or who live in cabins outside town and chop their own firewood all winter.

I would prefer to see your "once a month or more" category split about three ways, and perhaps the quarter/year choices combined.

I speculate you will find a mild correlation between outdoor activity and theism. I don't think this implies causation - but rather, that the more academic/intellectual types, who are drawn more to atheism, will also be more occupied with cards, computer games, reading, attending conferences, and whatnot, and have less time for the outdoors.

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I don't disagree. The definition of an outdoorman is open to a wide range of interpretations. I can see people doing many of those activities more than once a month. I live in Florida and in the last month, for example, I went for a long hike in the Everglades, and went boating twice (once to go fishing). I have a tendency to reside somewhere remote for extended periods of time (a month under a tarp in Southern Utah for example) also.

Your last statement is what I getting at. I personally don't fit that mold as I have a couple of computers and a library of books to rely on. I also have a technical career. I say that, knowing full well, that I am not an intellectual.

I think you are correct when you say that there is a correlation between theism and outdoor activity.