Originally Posted by conrad101st
Problem is that anywhere you camp is gonna jack somebody up.


I would tend to look at it a little differently. Obviously, anywhere you camp has the potential to interfere with someone else but there are degrees of "jacking someone up" and as you pointed out, a little common sense and courtesy goes a long ways.

If you camp next to the road or at the trailhead where there's already going to be a lot of vehicular and human traffic, I think it's hard for someone to say you're jacking them up.

Likewise, if you pack in several miles but camp right next to the trail where there's gonna be some traffic anyway, you're minimizing the degree to which you're jacking others up.

If you get back in off the trail but take care to camp away from travel, feeding, and bedding areas and camp cold and quiet, you're minimizing the degree to which you'll jack somebody else up.

If everyone did that there wouldn't be many threads like this.



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