I'm pretty introverted. I don't feel lonely when I'm home alone with my cats. I don't feel lonely in the sense of lacking conversation with someone. Over the last year or two, I've done a lot more hiking and spending time outdoors. I've talked about it on Hubski a fair bit, and I really like it. But as I daydream about doing more, taking on more challenging climbs and longer backpacking trips, it feels really lonely. I wish I had someone to do it with. I do have my core group of friends, but they're mostly music friends, not "spend a few days pushing yourself to the ragged edge" friends. Some of what I want to do starts to border on unsafe alone. Avalanche risk or an uncontrolled decent is a real problem. It's lonely. I signed back up on a dating site (lil) and messaged a couple people who had profile pictures of them in the woods rather than holding a beer at a football game, but I've made no progress.