Not many women boondock? Why?
I love to go off the beaten path (as a photographer and just an adventurous soul). I am a female but don't see too many women on this forum or any others actually. Men are always talking about the DW ...
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2oldman wrote:
It's a safety issue for many.
It can be enlightening to compare reality to the "monster under the bed" that we tend to fear. Many decades ago there was a freakish streak of murders of Appalachian trail hikers. One of the outdoor magazines did a detailed statistical analysis of safety in the outdoors, VS various places we typically sleep. The odds of random murder were as high as 10,000 to 1 in some really rough parts of big cities, to twenty million to one, while backpacking remote trails in the US.
Who knows how many of us pass up on experiences, due to fear and safety issues, while feeling safe in places that are, in reality, far more dangerous? Personally, we have been in campgrounds in places like Las Vegas, Southern California, and Niagara Falls that sure seemed like they had a lot more potential personal safety risk, that our favorite boondock locations in AK,UT, the Yukon and B.C.
