I haven't had time to read this whole thread but could you quote where anybody said specifically that those who do backcountry adventures like I've heard smokepole dies are the only legitimate users of public land out west?
Honest and sincere question because I may well have missed it.
My take on this is that there is a mystique inherent to those wild places that is as American as apple pie and my old fashioned deer camp in the northern LP (no wilderness there by a long shot) and that there is plenty of land upon which all can enjoy, but that we ought to leave what little we have of wild places wild.
Am I wrong?
Good luck getting a straight answer. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, researched some of his fuzziness, and concluded he's only got inference and innuendo.
