---- Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> You're hardly having a "wilderness experience" if you are camped anywhere near to another camper.
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> Your not even having a wilderness experience if you are driving to your campsite.
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> an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.
> synonyms:       wilds, wastes, uninhabited region, inhospitable region, uncultivated region.

but one can have a very pleasant, near to nature and perhaps semi-wilderness experience, unless someone addicted to the "comforts" of home has brought them along and chosen to be near to you.  I have been in undeveloped NF sites (no defined camping development), chosen my place carefully to be by my lonesome, and had a generator toting, fireworks shooting character plunk down next to me.  Meanwhile, said character has left suitable places unoccupied.  I once asked one such person, "why?"  The response, "We don't like to be too far from others when we camp."  We pulled up stakes and found a better location.  I guess the distance I left between us was too much, maybe unbearable.  Too bad.

mcneely

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> Alistair
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> > On Nov 4, 2013, at 7:18 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > But in the outback, one should be respectful of nearby campers'
> > expectation that they will have a nice wilderness experience without
> > anthropogenic noise.
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> > --
> > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> > Bend, Ore.
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> >> On 11/03/2013 09:38 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
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David McNeely