whether they want to go there or not. Or require that any white or nearly white person to be accompanied by a "person of color." am sure there are many underprivileged young men in the LA ghetto who would jump at the chance to accompany an affluent white youth into the back country.
Jesse Jackson on backpacking...
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to backpack down the path and hear a rustle... then turn around and see a mother bear with two cubs and feel relieved.”