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Poll Question: Using a pack to note that a campsite is taken

I've heard of it/do it/seen it done    
  16 (47.1%)
I've never heard of it    
  18 (52.9%)




Total votes: 34
« Created by: Preacher on: Sep 22nd, 2010 at 3:49pm »

 25 Reserving a site with your pack (Read 16064 times)
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Re: Reserving a site with your pack
Reply #30 - Oct 15th, 2010 at 4:07am
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I think it depends where, in BWCAW for example, no, I would not honor it. If I were in a fowl mood I might even throw it in woods and claim "what pack, there was no pack when I got here" In Quetico, maybe. Wabakimi, WCPP, yes.

Note to woman with friend who was bumped off campsite by another group in BWCAW, there is no rule stating that if somebody is camping at a site you cannot. The only rule is that there cannot be more than nine at a site, you could have told them you were camping there and they were welcome to as well.

They sound like pricks though, so maybe not people you want to be around.
  
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Re: Reserving a site with your pack
Reply #31 - Oct 25th, 2010 at 4:21am
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People have been describing two different situations: holding a site briefly and reserving a site that you do not even stay in one or more nights.  The later is never acceptable, no matter what you leave at the site.

Leaving just a single thing, even a pack, is iffy because someone could think it was forgotten.  But leaving behind a bunch of stuff (or a pack where gear has been removed to some extent) clearly shows someone is occupying the site.  Setting up a tent is not required.  I can even see a scenario where someone going out for a day trip but returning to the same campsite might take down their tent because of concerns of what weather might do if the tent is left up (maybe the tent is in a location where it is hard to tie it down and the site is quite exposed to wind).
  
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Re: Reserving a site with your pack
Reply #32 - Oct 26th, 2010 at 6:32pm
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I have seen the practice as my vote would show. Do I think it's a good practice or would I drop a pack to prospect other sites, never.  It's as  simple as the Golden Rule.
  
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Reply #33 - Oct 26th, 2010 at 10:47pm
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Azalea makes an important distinction.  To drop some of my gear at a site while I go prospecting for something better is very different from dropping off my gear with a clear intention to stay while I take advantage of the day and go off and fish or check out the lake.  The problem is that for the person coming upon the gear it is impossible to tell the difference.  Personally I would choose to believe the person is doing the latter rather than the former but to be quite honest its never actually happened to me and these days I'm tending to do my tripping in more secluded regions where it is most probably a non-issue anyway.  Philosophically speaking the answer is, as has already been pointed out, adherence to the Golden Rule.
  
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Re: Reserving a site with your pack
Reply #34 - Oct 26th, 2010 at 11:21pm
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Golden Rule? Like I tell my daughter "He who has the gold makes the rules"
Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.

My position? Set up your site. Seems simple enough. Might as well take a 30 minute nap while your at it..........then go catch some dinner.
  
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Re: Reserving a site with your pack
Reply #35 - Oct 31st, 2010 at 3:30am
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Wouldn't do it, and have never seen it done.  Take the time to set up camp, it just makes sense.  No one likes to fish more than me, and I would always set up camp before going fishing.

Twice I've had to share campsites with trippers who weren't on the ball all that well.  They got into areas at dusk where the only campsite around was occupied by us.  Both instances were in Lake Superior PP, not the Q.  Both went well, no problem.  Not ideal, but you roll with it.

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