Straying from your Boondocking Site

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.