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Posted by calamity on December 15, 2007 at 12:55:27 pm EST
In reply to Re: what is the reality of the dangers from other humans on the trail? posted by Ed G on December 15, 2007 at 8:11:53 am EST

Trailhead car break-ins and/or vandalism have affected me twice, and are the only crime that concerns me relative to backcountry. I'd not want to meet professionals engaged in this work, but I'm sure the feeling is mutual.

Crime along the trail itself is statistically way down the list of remote probabilities, and I personally at least, am kept up at night in the woods worrying more about vampires and ghosts, which scare the hell out of me.

My nephew, (who they say doesn't bite) ran a small meth lab inside his mother's suburban house, until the cops & hazmat people asked him to stop. Certainly, he wouldn't have used a wilderness location, unless messy housekeeping and drug-induced dementia rises to the level of truly wild.

I did spend a few nights camping with a Californian, a former special forces commando, who in the past, had apparently accepted employment as an armed guard for agricultural interests taking into account the "multiple use" concept of our National Forest system. (These were in days prior to Blackwater Bonanza for eager vets.) He claimed to have fired his weapon in the line of duty, citing marauding Indians, though the proffered details of this tale in particular, sounded a bit far fetched.

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