Things to know about hiking in the rain.
ENJOY IT! Change your attitude about it.
Don't have this attitude in general and NEVER about the rain!
In your quote you have the answer on how to change your attitude. PERCEPTION!
I've changed my once negative pissy(pun intended) outlook on rain to a more positive one where I've conditioned myself to appreciate it and actually be HAPPY about it through happy music specific for when it's raining, happy visions of rain, splashing in puddles, enjoying the sights, smells, and sounds associated with wet weather, noticing how wildlife responds to rain, watching how it gathers from a few drops on plants to a raging river, etc.
FOR ME, it's about doing this: When I change the way I'm looking at things, the things I'm looking at change!
C'mon watch this, feel this, experience this for yourself, sing this, bring this to memory, lock this in to your psych, DO THIS!
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...ail&FORM=VIRE3
NOW, do this in the rain when you are hiking. It might get you noticed but be different in a better way. In the process not only will you be enforcing and conditioning a more empowering attitude in yourself but you will probably be helping others to do the same.
If you ever experience a tall crazy acting backpacker with headphones on singing and dancing down the trail in the rain like Gene Kelly it's probably me. Let's start a new trend.