desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Sept 2, 2015 7:09:22 GMT -8
Sounds like a comment on your car! "Hey, buddy, if you're driving this thing, you probably are broke." Yeah, that's what I figured. It was funny, though.
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Post by zeke on Sept 2, 2015 11:27:48 GMT -8
Never, but I know it was done at the Eagle Creek TH Oregon, many times, just not to me.
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swmtnbackpacker
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Sept 7, 2015 5:57:29 GMT -8
The TH was right off a major highway, but didn't stop a cpl sketchy dudes looking into my windows coming down from a day hike about 15 or so yrs ago. Guess they were thinking about acting like they lost their keys. All they would have gotten was 200 copies of a "Law of Momentum" ditto I hadn't graded from my night class I taught.
Underscores the whole distance thing though. It was relatively low cost for them to break into vehicles next to a major road with nearby cities; further away, they would have spent gas $ for a worthless haul. I've seen pics of cars messed with next to highways or other popular roads but you gotta figure gas.
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Post by FarOutFarley on Sept 28, 2015 20:50:23 GMT -8
Yes, my car was broken into at a remote recreation area. I actually saw it happening as I was returning to my car but I was too far away to do anything about it. They totally smashed a rear window but saw me coming and fled. Put a swift end to my vacation.
Another time I left my car window open over night in a large city. My car was full of expensive carpentry tools. I couldn't believe it when I discovered my mistake the next morning and not a single tool was missing.
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Post by tipiwalter on Sept 29, 2015 5:35:36 GMT -8
I was on an 18 day backpacking trip into the Snowbirds of NC and on Day 14 I passed thru Beech Gap on the BMT in the Cherokee NF and found this example of trail vandalism. Welcome to Tennessee.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2015 13:13:29 GMT -8
My small Honda was once overturned onto its side after a weekend backpack on the Knobstone Trail in Indiana. The roof was against a wall of greenbriar. Amazingly there were no scratches on it and the tow truck operator set it back down without damage.
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Post by markweth on Oct 14, 2015 9:29:58 GMT -8
Twice, both times parked at trailheads in the Red River Gorge, KY. Yeah, the RRG has a pretty bad reputation for that. When I worked seasonally for the US Forest Service there we would get calls almost every summer weekend regarding at least one or two break-ins. Hard to prevent and patrol for, especially given the proximity of the trailheads to areas with high poverty. I've had my car (a 10-year old Volvo at the time) broken into once at a trailhead in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. Passenger window busted out and nothing taken, at least as far as I noticed. At that time I had spent about 200 nights on backpacking trips, so it amounted to a 0.5% incident rate, to put it in perspective. It's an uncomfortable risk we take as backpackers, given that aside from homes our vehicles are typically our most valuable possessions.
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Post by tipiwalter on Oct 14, 2015 11:36:08 GMT -8
Someone needs to design a cheap vehicle, a junker really, just for backpacking trips. Locked wheel lugs, impossible to puncture tires, unbreakable lexan windows, whatever. Then the bums will probably just torch it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2015 13:08:13 GMT -8
When I was a park ranger up in Voyageurs we had some break-ins, local bored kids were responsible. Only happened a couple of times in the four years I was there.
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Post by hikinggods on Oct 19, 2015 19:32:21 GMT -8
Once. We were parked at a trailhead on the north side of the Superstitions. We returned from a 3 day trip at 11:00 pm and our Forester wouldn't start... Something wasn't right. Then we noticed pry marks on the drivers door by the edge of the window, but "they" apparently didn't get in. Nothing was taken or messed with in the interior, but someone had gotten the hood open and disconnected the battery. Once we reconnected the battery, the car started right up. The Forest Service was not interested in our attempts to report the attempted break in.
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driftwoody
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Post by driftwoody on Oct 20, 2015 16:54:37 GMT -8
My car has never been broken into, but that is my most prevalent hiking/backpacking concern. Many of my hiking vacations involve a weeklong trip with several destinations and no base of operations, usually with a buddy. The last 2 years in the weeks spanning Sep/Oct we drove to Vegas to compete in a Senior Softball tournament and also did hiking/backpacking in Southern Utah. All our stuff for a two week trip (including softball equipment) was in my little Honda Fit with rear seats folded down.
Utah is probably safer than the Southern Appalachians, where I've hiked much more often. One time my wife and I drove to a TH at the east side of Wilson Creek Wilderness in NC for a long dayhike. The highway was the border between the wilderness and an obviously economically depressed rural neighborhood with rundown mobile homes, junked cars, and other scrap. When we pulled up to the TH which was just a gravel pulloff in plan view, the first thing we noticed was all the broken auto glass on the gravel. We quickly decided to make other plans for the day.
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Post by bass on Oct 24, 2015 7:42:11 GMT -8
Never had a problem. Note that rangers and law enforcement are installing hidden game cameras to watch some of the more isolated trailhead parking areas. Maybe this will help deter thieves.
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Post by tipiwalter on Nov 8, 2015 13:19:43 GMT -8
Driftwoody---Sounds like you were entering a place called Harper Creek and Harper Creek Falls?
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Post by sasquatch on Feb 21, 2016 20:22:16 GMT -8
Luckily no. I keep very little in my truck while it is parked. I have had a few friends that have had break-ins and it seems to be becoming an issue in my area.
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