Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 00:33:19 +0000
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From: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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Incredible story Dave....could have gone very bad. Glad you lived to tell about it. Yeah...I think all of us have had one or two "dicey" experiences. Where you just get "that feeling" and get the heck out of there.
On Friday, June 5, 2020, 4:30:23 PM PDT, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com> wrote:
Pretty bad situation. Right now, everyone is on edge, and many seem to be
looking for trouble.
As for logging road camping, I am a big fan of camping in the most isolated
spots I can find. Campgrounds without water and either with vault or pit
toilets are ok if I can't find a spot with nothing, but the big campgrounds
with all the "good stuff"? Not for me, because that's where everyone else
is. Only one time have I ever felt a threat when camping. On the Mountain
Fork of the Little River, in the Ouachitata National Forest in SE
Oklahoma, I was setting up in a beautiful meadow far enough from the river
to be legal, but close enough to hear its roar as it dropped over
magnificent fall, and to secure my water supply. I was just off a forest
service road.
While I was getting my fire going for the evening meal, a 4WD pickup with
driver and passenger in the cab, and with two passengers and four dogs in
bed. It stopped just a bit past my camp but out of site, and a few minutes
later two guys showed up on foot just outside my camp, and both were armed
(it was not hunting season for anything, but there are things that can be
hunted legally in Oklahoma year round). One of them asked me what I was up
to, which seemed pretty obvious to me. I replied in as friendly a tone as
I could muster that I was getting ready to eat dinner. He asked, "What's
for dinner," actually sounding like he intended to partake. I replied,
again hoping I sounded friendly, something like, "Oh, steak, potatoes,
salad, beer, maybe pie if I can muster the energy to make it." He turned
his head and yelled to someone out of site something like, "You hear that,
sounds real good." Then he said to me, "You make that pie, ya hear." Then
he and his companion left the way they had apparently come.
I threw everything in the van without packing. Bonnie had been busy inside
the whole time, and I started to tell her what had transpired, but she
already knew. We were back on the paved road within 15 minutes, and as we
pulled onto it, the same pickup showed up right behind us. I drove toward
town as Bonnie called 911, because the pickup was tailgating at highway
speed. When I noticed the sheriff's office I pulled in there and the
pickup kept going. The deputy I talked to said they'd had a lot of trouble
with the same people, who were meth makers and users, and he advised me not
to camp outside a campground, and then only if there were other occupants.
That was in 2012, early summer.
After that, I followed the deputy's advice when in Little Dixie.
But this situation in Washington was a different scenario. It sounds like
the people who threatened my fellow Spokanites were some of the sorts of
people who think THEY are in the right when they abuse others. My trouble
came from ordinary criminal types.
mcneely
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:20 PM Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found an article here regarding this:
>
>
> https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/clallam-county-olympic-peninsula-multiracial-family-harassed-accused-antifa/281-d8570144-f956-4ea2-af26-ccbba91dc4d0
>
> On 6/5/20, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've never been a fan of logging road camping, but this is terrible:
> >
> https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/multiracial-family-harassed-
> > accused-of-being-antifa-during-camping-trip-in-clallam-county/ There is
> a
> > paywall but three articles/month are free.
> >
> >
> >
> > Stuart (never got over "Deliverance.")
> >
>
>
> --
> Neil n
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