A fair number of people go missing in forests without a trace...

Largely national forests, as I recall. Hardly your average hike, but I take your point.

...women listen to too many truecrime podcasts.

It's not the true crime podcasts. They find the serial killers hot. It's the feminism, where they convince themselves all men are disgusting, evil, oppressive, and responsible for all their own failures in life. No one, literally no one, hates men because "serial killers."

In any event no one, especially women, should go hiking alone anyways, you're more likely to die by simply being unprepared than by a serial killer or even a wild animal.

Men can go hiking alone within reason. Even women can go hiking alone in many areas, but your point's a good one. Caution is key, regardless of sex. There are plenty of trails neither men nor women should venture out on without a companion. There are plenty of ways to get completely fucked up on your own.

This whole discourse has revealed more than anything just how shockingly ignorant so many sheltered urbanites are of nature.

I don't think nature is the point, but yes, agreed. Feminists are retarded. I'm glad they continue to prove it centuries later.

...devils advocacy aside, I'm sure makes up the vast majority of people who go missing in forests...made the mistake of not respecting nature, getting lost, and dying of starvation, dehydration, disease, and/or hypothermia.

Lost is the big one, all the others lead from that. You're not going to go out in the forest and starve...you're going to go out and get lost and then starve.

Personally, I suspect it's a combination of lost and injured...which leads to the same problem; not being able to get back to where you want to go. Unprepared people do stupid shit and can't get back to where they they need to be.