Straying from your Boondocking Site

If I had to take my rig away from our boondocking site, I would either have someone stay behind with all the stuff, or pack up and do it all over again.

put up a cone with a sign ,be back soon, and the date.

We just leave our chairs out. Maybe the canopy. We have a family tradition of seeing how many repairs we can make on our cheap chairs until they become unservicable so no loss there

Boondock sites are hard to protect with nothing there, especially if it's a super nice one.

Best method is to mark with a cone or sign. Make sure you put a date/time of when you will be back. Will reduce the chance of someone claiming they thought it was an old sign while at the same time releasing the site if for some reason you don't make it back. I know if I came across even a wonderful site, if it was marked with a sign of your return later that day, I wouldn't occupy it.

Oasisbob wrote:
We just leave our chairs out. Maybe the canopy. We have a family tradition of seeing how many repairs we can make on our cheap chairs until they become unservicable so no loss there

I would think you are running a risk of someone coming by and just figuring some slob decided today was the day to discard their piece of junk chairs. I know many people, myself included, who feel a kind of duty to clean up the messes left by others when we are up in the woods. Seldom do I spend a day in the back country and not return with someone else's trash.

westernrvparkowner wrote:

Oasisbob wrote:
We just leave our chairs out. Maybe the canopy. We have a family tradition of seeing how many repairs we can make on our cheap chairs until they become unservicable so no loss there

I would think you are running a risk of someone coming by and just figuring some slob decided today was the day to discard their piece of junk chairs. I know many people, myself included, who feel a kind of duty to clean up the messes left by others when we are up in the woods. Seldom do I spend a day in the back country and not return with someone else's trash.

I do the same, wrvpo, and with my small rig it's not easy to haul extra trash. Boondocking sites seem to be the most littered. It might make an interesting study as to why. Are more boondockers inclined to be litterers? Is the lack of trash receptacles a blanket permit to toss your garbage instead of hauling it out?

When I leave a boondocking site I take everything with me and assume that someone may take it in my absence. But I don't stay long in one place, anyway.

If you leave the free site it is up for grabs.

boondocking infers an unofficial, non-defined camping site IMHO. It is not a designated camping spot, and seems therefore it is up for grabs by anyone who wanders by. Maybe carry bikes to do your wandering? Just a thought. That way your rig would be in place and the area (not a specified campsite) would obviously not be available. We do have a toad and have almost never boondocked - only a couple of times to catch some sleep in a large parking lot. Know this isn't what you're talking about. Don't obviously know what 'unwritten etiquette there is to the practice, but sounds like "move it and lose it' might apply! You're not paying to stay there, so seems you wouldn't have a claim to the area if your rig isn't there. Just my thoughts.

You're Boondocking, you don't have a "site"!

mockturtle wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:

Oasisbob wrote:
We just leave our chairs out. Maybe the canopy. We have a family tradition of seeing how many repairs we can make on our cheap chairs until they become unservicable so no loss there

I would think you are running a risk of someone coming by and just figuring some slob decided today was the day to discard their piece of junk chairs. I know many people, myself included, who feel a kind of duty to clean up the messes left by others when we are up in the woods. Seldom do I spend a day in the back country and not return with someone else's trash.

I do the same, wrvpo, and with my small rig it's not easy to haul extra trash. Boondocking sites seem to be the most littered. It might make an interesting study as to why. Are more boondockers inclined to be litterers? Is the lack of trash receptacles a blanket permit to toss your garbage instead of hauling it out?

When I leave a boondocking site I take everything with me and assume that someone may take it in my absence. But I don't stay long in one place, anyway.

I think you hit the nail on the head. No trash can and nobody watching. Plus, they aren't coming back, so it doesn't effect them.