Happy to let you vent. Those ladies were lucky you didn’t loosen the chain!

I’m located way in the back, all sites are pretty isolated, vehicle/tent/table visible from road(50m away), no trails behind me, no reason to cut through.
I hear two women speaking, put my head out the tent to see them standing in front of my fire pit digging through their backpack, so close that if I had a stick I could have poked ’em.
I was already on edge as these were the two who had arrived nextdoor around midnight and by 130am were dumping rounds into the hillside at an annoying rate of rapid fire. While this and the neighboring county are very pro 2A, this specific site is zero shooting/zero tolerance, with several postings.

I’m an avid hunter/combat veteran USMC Infantry, and consider myself VERY sociable, always share my resources, buck and split wood for everyone around me, even willing to share my space if the other sites are full.

So I say “Good morning” with a smile, one looks at me, ignores me, looks back at friend and continues conversation. I say, “Can I help you?” The other one responds with snark, “No, we’re just fine. Thanks.”
“Well you’re walking through my campsite.” No response. So I look at the first, who has a leash attached to a 4lbs kitten, “you’re aggravating my dog walking that cat through my campsite.”
They roll their eyes and step back toward the road.

I have a very stout/unsnipped 60lbs American Blue Nose with me, head the size of a pumpkin. Since starting this adventure two weeks ago he has already snapped his chain and chased off a mountain lion and two separate bears, came back bloodied yet victorious each time.

I’m 40 years old and have done some pretty extreme camping around the world, not seeing another human being for several weeks at a time. In every interaction i have found fellow hikers/campers to be far more cordial/courteous while this far in the back county than in their day to day lives. I had thought it the universal language of, “I don’t know you, and you certainly don’t know me.”

Here’s the question America:
In the courts of public opinion, would it have been justified to have loosened just enough slack in his chain to make my point, or would I have been considered the rude camper?

IDK, these two really rubbed me the wrong way.
Thanks for letting me vent.
I’ma go grill a back strap for that Beast of mine.

-ToyBox

I guess you now know that it irritates many people. Like I said in my post, I see my campsite as my “hotel room”. I paid for my “space” and “privacy” and would not want people walking through it to take a short cut. I don’t think a sign is needed, people just need to realize that cutting through campsites is not okay.

Homeless people .. that’s up to you. I don’t walk around homeless encampments. That could be a bit scary of the unknown of drug users being in those tents.

I don’t think the pattern can be easily switched from facing one way to the other. I know my patterns would take a bit of re-designing to do that.
Karen

Glad you found my blog! Maybe I should come up with a sign ….

Hi Lisa,
Might be! Email me the details – TheCampsiteCompany@gmail.com

Thanks,
Karen