hiking

Second day of Fall break. We went to Tallulah Gorge SP today. I've been there before and decided to show it to my roommates. We got there at around 10.
In order to access ground flour you need to get a permission - some paperwork and some oral instructions from several quite nice and handsome guys. Anyway, this is not the point. The point is who goes hiking there. At some point before we arrived there some other people had already gotten their permissions and went hiking.
Me and my roommates have accent so those guys started asking us about where we were from. Well... post-USSR countries. It turned out that other people who had already registered were from Great Britain and somewhere else. There were no a single American till 10.30 (but the day was nice).
Why?
Do they sleep to much? or hiking is not quite popular? I don't know.
Although when we went hiking in Utah this summer we met more Germains and French people than Americans I believe...

And one day later I need to share my observations about how people do hiking/camping in the US (not only Americans).