Re: Backcountry Meetings

Thanks for all of the replies. In hearing what everyone has to say I will more than likely leave the gun at home and just depend on a good knife...just in case. It was a good point that I could injure someone else, I never thought of it in that fashion. Plus in running various scenarios by my wife I also couldn't come up with a situation in which I wouldn't end up in jail protecting my gear. Given my proficiency with a weapon and my self defense training I don't think that the gun would be taken off of me, but I'm not cocky enough to think that it couldn't happen.

As for the packing through Camp David comment, I wasn't planning on wearing it as if I was in the wild wild west - but I appreciate your fantastic point of view none-the-less. You are correct in your observation of how the authorities would feel.

Something I never thought of until this thread was theft, so that is something I will have to ponder when I bed down.

With that being said, the crimes I have been a victim of have been non-personal and non-violent crime. Believe me, I don't look like a target and have already done the martial arts things - So I am more than prepared to handle myself. I just like that extra bit of security, you can never be too careful, right? I was referring to mainly car theft and the likes. Not something I can really prevent in the city. I do have a club and an alarm but I wonder how well they really deter. The events while not detrimental to my health, have made me a little weary of strangers in my personal space. Couple my bad experiences with my wife's line of work and I would say that I am a shade paranoid. A lady I work with said she heard her neighbor's car the other morning but was too tired to investigate. Anyway I guess that is for another forum.

As for the suggestion to move...I have already been planning to move away from the zoo (city) as soon as I can. I have a few classes to finish before I can leave. As soon as they are completed I am gone.

I am still interested in hearing about the strange meetings people have had out on the trails and more importantly the outcome of the meetings...just given my little experience in this area I know that not everyone in the woods is playing with a full deck.