Could a man not write an article entitled ‘don’t put hiking down on a tinder profile if you don’t want to be invited on dates that involve hiking?’ - or is that just telling a woman what to do?

Put bluntly, nobody should be telling anyone what to do. If you put hiking as an interest on your tinder profile then keep your boundaries up if you don’t want to go hiking with a stranger then say no. Men are under no obligation to work out the internal thought processes you’ve got.

What you’ve done here is taken a 50/50 responsibility to communicate clearly and demanded the other half of the world submit to your chosen preferences.

Looking for a compromise position? I can recommend putting in you like hiking, but not as a first date. I suspect the number of men asking you to go hiking as an opening seduction salvo would drop to near zero.