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We are volunteer camp hosts in Oregon State Parks. Surprisingly we run into that too. People pooping at their site when the bathroom is so close. Disgusting behavior!! My jerky thing to add is cigarette butts everywhere!!
Somehow cigarettes smokers don't see throwing down their butts as throwing down garbage. It makes no sense. I think cigarette butts are the most common garbage seen anywhere on earth.
People who go camping and bring every electronic device they own and set them up. Blasting music, loud partying, etc. Just stay home if you don't want peace and quiet!!!
I was going to add the loud music and partying. We had someone camp close to us one time who brought a Karaoke machine. I could handle it until 10 (barely), but after that I was done.
Walking through peoples campsite, this happens a lot at so called "resorts"! Not picking up after your dog. Just two of my pet peeves on camping not just boondocking. Thanks Caroline!!
Someone with a very large dog left a whopping pile of dog crap in the middle of our marina's parking lot last week. Even with a designated poop area and a dog poop bag dispenser. Jerks with no manners.
I don't understand the lack of personal space. When my daughter was younger, people (usually men) would stand very close to her in lines. I would have to insert myself in between her and the person behind her all the time. When she was a teenager I taught her to step back on the person's foot "accidentally". She had long hair too so I taught her to whip her hair around and then say "I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were so close to me" with a nice smile. Just give people their space. It's not hard.
Another jerky thing is people who pull into a campsite late at night and then make lots of noise while they are hollering directions to each other and setting up camp. I get that maybe they had some kind of trouble that caused them to arrive late, but they could at least have the courtesy to try to be quiet, especially if they pull in close to other campers, who have their lights out and are obviously in bed.
Well said! Manners and respect for others is not a given these days and it’s getting worst. It’s very depressing and sad to say the least to watch what is happening in this country. Thank you for having the courage to address this issue in you channel.
Oh yes Caroline I agree with you 100%....The most disgusting thing ever to do for the next camper to be greeted by his thrash....maybe he does that at his front door to greet his guest...HIS BIG JERK
The "jerk" rvers are every where! Blue Water Casino in Parker Az has had enough.. closed their dry camping area and you can only stay in the Casino lot until midnight! Even McDonalds blocked off their large parking lot behind the restaurant... sad! People are disgusting.... ruin everything for everybody else!
Yes, the Blue Water Casino seems to get more than their fair share of jerky RVers. Good for them for clamping down, but bad for us who would like to stop there and treat it respectfully.
A real jerky thing is when a nearby camper decides that everyone should like their music and they blast it through their super boom box. Music is ok but not so loud you can hear it half a mile away. I guess some think others will be impressed with their favorite songs. This is not true people! 🤔
Last year I went tent camping. I was at least half a mile from other campers. Around midnight a gaggle of drunks set up camp about a city block from me. They started letting off fireworks aimed at my camp site. Had a ton of tiny holes burned on my tent. I was alone, so I packed up and left. I don't understand the behavior of the few who ruin camping for the rest of us. Happy travels and stay safe Carolyn. 🤗
My pet peeve is with what I assume are jerky LOCALS. They come in to a dispersed campsite with their rv/trailer set it up on let’s say a Monday and don’t come back until Friday evening and spend the weekend in what they call their rightful campsite that has been occupied by their family for generations and then leave the occupied site for the week. This goes on all summer. In the meantime I’m trying to find a site to camp and all the dispersed sites are “occupied” in this manner. So frustrating and if you talk to the local land management agency, they just nod their head to placate you and do nothing. Grrr….!!!
I find this so true. Why has entitlement inundated our country. These people should just leave a key so others can enjoy a free spot. I was at a spot for 14 days and the next campsite wasn't occupied the whole time. It was a trailer with 2 chairs outside and a rug. Maybe the people were dead inside. This is what I kept telling myself. The trailer looked like it had been there for awhile.
TOTALLY agree. I've only been full time on the road since February 26th and I have seen ALL the things you mentioned in spades! The camp previous to this one was in Mesa Verde. As I walked my dog every day, I saw "poop" covered with some sticks, covered with toilet paper, as well as toilet paper, women's personal items, bottles, cans, junk of every possible kind throughout the campground AND YOU'RE RIGHT...why would they allow people in these various forests and campgrounds if we aren't responsible enough to take care of the spaces???? Well, the answer is, they won't and now with many of the Florida campgrounds closed, the west will probably be inundated with those campers as well. Let's ALL not be JERKS and follow the advice Carolyn just provided us!!! Thanks Carolyn, I, for one, will not be a JERK! 😇
@@rouxchat6033 Those that do that are the _real_ RV heroes/heroines. So thank you!! I pick up trash but admittedly not poop. How does one properly dispose of others crap without getting it on themselves?
@@celestepalm6949 Same as picking up dog feces. Invert a plastic bag, or two, and bag it up. I've yet to get any on me. I carry another larger plastic bag to put the feces filled bags into along with other trash.
It's calling people jerks that will upset people. They'll whine that it's not very kind. I think calling someone who leaves their shit on the ground a jerk is VERY Kind. I have lots of less kind adjectives :-p
It's so nice seeing those in roadside rest stops. Why don't they at least pour it down the public toilet and properly dispose of the empty container? 🤔
I'll feel safer to NOT have anyone close by. Especially if I was there first, and if I wasn't there first, I wouldn't stay as you stated. Another thing is loud music. I love my music....MY MUSIC. Even if they're camped where I can't see them, I can sometimes still hear them and that's just rude. I've camped all of my life and had a special secluded place where we had privacy and the only noise was us. It was so beautiful, right on the river with clear water and a gorgeous cliff on the other side. The entire area got washed away one year in a flood. I still miss it! We went several times a year and when we weren't there, we were talking about being there. We dug a deep hole and had this make-shift 3-part seat that we could do our business in and then we would haul buckets of sand and rock to cover the business hole. We were pretty proud of that seat!
I would definitely agree as dogs are not natural to that environment but try telling that to dog people. Everyone has that opportunity to be a jerk and more often than. It has been that jerk without realizing it because he’ll I think alot of people enjoy being the victim of the jerk not realizing how much of a jerk they are too in maybe some other ways.
Growing up our local state park was open 24/7. Night fishing was allowed. It wasn't campers that caused them to gate and block entrances...it was the locals throwing away their trash...couches, mattresses, bikes....all kinds of things they didn't want to pay the fee to dispose of it properly.
Yes, that's so true. I pack out as much garbage as possible left by dirt bags but I've no way to remove large, heavy objects. Those are entirely locals.
Ok but as a city dweller people do this jerky stuff right in the city too! I don't know wtf is WRONG with people these days and I have no filter between brain and mouth so my adult daughter finds going anywhere with me either hilarious or embarrassing lol! I swear common sense and common courtesy are things of the past. Should be called RARE sense or RARE courtesy unfortunately. Thank you as always for sharing Caroline. I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend.
It's not just Boondocking 🤣. At Canadian Tire today, I parked my 30' rig way far away from everyone so I could easily turn to get out. When I came out, there were cars on either side of me, in the middle of nowhere, with empty places closer to the store! 🤣🤣🤣 YEP!! 🤬 My pet peeve is women leaving toilet paper!!! My dog will find it and I have to take it out of her mouth! 🤢 Take a Ziploc bag with you!!
That's hilarious because it needs to be said as well as disgusting! It's so true, folks. And it not exclusively happens in the woods. I saw a truckdriver parked in a dock door at a large warehouse, in broad daylight, take a dump under his trailer while it was being unloaded. There was a porta potty 20 yards away. But there's one worse. Some trucker teams would drill a large hole in the sleeper floor to the outside and relieve themselves down it. Naturally their "stuff" would be blown everywhere. Another reason not to tailgate trucks. Then they would pull over a pit to have engine oil changed and get refused service. Or over a pit like the California Highway Patrol has at weigh stations for inspections. The cops would, by my understanding, take the perpetrators to jail and impound the truck until a haz-mat team could decontaminate the vehicle. Then send the truckers the massive bill, a bill equal to one as if they spilled a caustic or radioactive substance. Ha, Ha. Real funny. To go dump in the woods. Nobody will know. Obviously, Carolyn found it while not even looking. Individual DNA can be tracked in a person's stool, destructive deficators. Not to mention, I'm just a big enough sonofabitch to video them in the act and forward the video to authorities. Would the big brother government investigate? Identify deficators by DNA? Yeah, maybe. And I and many others would help them. I'd help because I despise lazy people. People too lazy to line a 5 gallon bucket with a plastic bag and dispose of it properly. Anyone can bitch about their precious rights being taken away. But why is it always the same people who complain about infringement of their precious rights the first ones to destroy the rights of others? Carolyn is right on! And if someone wants to prove their bravado by camping in the woods they can't do that by being afraid to be alone with themselves. I don't park in truck stops because I don't want to listen to someone else's TV all night, I don't want to get my vehicle hit by some half asleep half wit, and I'm only there to.rest not to socialize. Great vid, Carolyn.
I was a Girl Scout and they always had us take our trash out. We were to leave the camp as we found it or even better if some jerk had left their trash. IF someone is out by themselves they are there for a reason. They want their privacy for whatever reason so I would never park near them. I hope when I do "hit the road" that I will be a good boon docker! Thanks Carolyn for reminding us all about the kindness we should show each other.
I can't tell you the number of times I have found Human poop on the surface at dispersed camp sites. You are absolutely correct in listing that as the number "1" most disgusting thing to find in a boondocking site. Here is a short video showing one of the sites I found. When my son and I boondock we take along a post-hole digger and dig a hole about 3 feet deep far out away from camp. That is our Latrine for the stay. When we get ready to leave, we fill in the hole part way with dirt and then add a few large rocks on top of that to prevent someone from digging there again. We also put several large rocks on the surface over the hole to mark the site. Only Human waste goes in the hole. We always pack out all of about other garbage that won't burn in the last campfire. I once found a site up Golar Gulch on the Mojave Desert where some stupid-ass person left many piles of poop and toilet paper on the ground. You could tell from the "Freshness" that they had left the night before. But that wasn't all. In the fire pit they left 2 dozen eggs, several unopened packages of snacks, and 16 cans of beer. In the fire pit no less! I must admit that I scattered the eggs on a hill side for the critters, and I properly disposed of the beer. But not before I ran it through my Kidneys first. I very much enjoy your videos. ua-cam.com/video/Le5pDAE5m9k/v-deo.html
I don’t like other campers come over to talk to me. I camp because I want some quiet and solitude, not being social. I know most people mean well but I feel uncomfortable when I can’t return the gesture.
What gets me is seeing those little doggie bags full of dogshit lying right on the trail. The forest doesn't need that plastic! I don't get too uptight about the occasional dog turd in the woods, really don't think it's gonna hasten ecological collapse. But plastic is gross! Oh and once I had a campsite where I had to clean up the previous occupants' garbage, well, it still smelled like food so it won't surpise you to know that night, big widely spaced eyes shone in my flashlight beam when I checked out why the dogs were going apeshit.
I agree with all your jerk list. I'll add dog poop too. It's fine, way out in the woods and off trail, but everywhere I camp in the desert, I see people letting their dogs poo right in the middle of everything. Pick it up people. I'm constantly picking up trash, but I refuse to pick up the toilet paper drops. One campsite I was at I cleaned up transmissiion parts, fenders, car seats, etc. Worst of all is broken glass and nails from burning pallets. I've also had to ask people not to park up my ass. If I can hear them farting at night it's rudely close. But, it's not just out boondocking you see this, today as I walked thru a parking lot, there was a small dog's pile of poo, right in a handicap spot. People have been messy A#%holes since the beginning of time. ☮
We have gourgus natinal forest where i live .and a national park . A few years ago the boondocking camping was almost closed . Some camp sites where . Becouse of trash !!! Me and a friend talked to the van full of goverment officials from the department of interior. We had my jeep full of trash from cleaning up those boondocking sites.we beg them not to close the area . The could of easly, see it is part of a wilderness area . All they would of had to do is bring a bulldozer and block the dirt road . Now after horsebacked the area , I wish they would of ...
Well, I pick up after my dog even way out on hiking trails and pack it out just as if it were my own. What gets me is seeing plastic bags filled with poop (assuming it's dog feces), tied off and tossed next to the trail. Huh? What the heck is up with that?
As this planet/nature/ our forests, our wildlife/our waterways, etc... decay.... all due to the delusional, ignorant actions of stupid, nasty humans...we’re spending millions and billions of dollars to launch spaceships, drones and other weird technology to space....to check out other planets and the moon. Wtf? Doesn’t make sense to me. Humans screwed up this planet...not non humans. We’ve got poverty, homelessness, hunger, wildfires, Hurricanes, flooding, tsunamis, tornadoes, hail storms (the actual size of the hail is huge...bigger than golf balls). Can’t afford our medicines or even a one day hospital stay. Humans are obsessed with greed, the need to feel powerful, status, and they want more and more and more. Yet when the humans spend a day at the beach or at a park...no one picks up behind themselves... it’s disgusting. I’m old...live alone (kinda like that but can’t do so many things I used to do anymore...I’m almost 75 yrs old)...I’m barely eking by..because I keep rescuing stray critters...and I don’t get why people and spaceships are going out into space. We can’t seem to fix our own planet’s issues...and yet....we’re gonna go destroy more planets? Makes me super angry. I prefer hanging with my non human pals. Never lonely...and much more content. And..my outside critters (14 tnrd cats, 3 raccoons, 4 opossums, squirrels...and a few bunnies) ... they all seem to get along just fine. The cats just lay around my deck at night and watch the other critters come and go...they’re eating leftover cat kibble ...but raccoons will kind of eat just about anything. My home is tiny. Set up cozy for me and the 2 sickly strays I took in. This is who I am now. I do what I can...but I make sure the critters and cats all get fresh food and fresh water...in clean bowls. Most humans just annoy the hell out of me. 🤦♀️😏. For real. I don’t know how you put up with some of the horrible idiots you must come across..😏🙄. Hugs and love to you and your sweet fur baby. ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍💫💫💫
I have seen 👀 👀 that, #Jerky..I went camping with my Son-in -law and yes di did just that he S^^t in the woods against a tree. Didn't even Bury it. Left the toilet paper on the ground. Told daughter to give her a set of her surgical gloves and tell him to Pick Up that paper. Also Told her how Ashamed I was to be camping with THEM. IT'S SO SAD THERE IS such discussing people being raised now Days 😪 😞 😔 😕 I raised her and my 2 other kids better than that. "TAKE OUT WHAT YOU BRING IN, if your REALLY KIND. Do a little extra to help that place to be there another day, when you come again " God wonderful nature needs caring Hands ✋ and people 😊 ❤
Sadly any of us...or at least most of us here aren’t going to do these things so she’s preaching to the choir. I totally agree with all she speaks of and I think we can all agree it only takes a few a - holes to screw things up. Grrr...
A few years ago I was at a free campground in Oregon and I went to bed in my tent. I woke up around midnight to hear a vehicle pull into the site next to me and he began pulling things out of his vehicle. I kept waiting and waiting for it to stop but it never did. He was out there making noise unloading his crap out of his vehicle for hours on end making far too much noise.
@@NYCHFAN amazingly the guy was still awake when I got up and I didn't see him ever go to bed. I suspected he had bipolar disorder and he was on the upswing and couldn't sleep and took everybody else down with him
Absolutely right! No arguments from me. I'd add broken glass & nails from construction wood scraps. Brian (Adventure Van Man) runs a bid powerful magnet all round campsites and protects his feet , his tires, & future visitors.
Quarter mile can be tough these days.. just picked up 4 full size dog food bags full of trash someone left behind.. luckily the bears didn't get into it..a guy was staying in a spot nearby and peeled the bark off a sweet shade tree last summer. .. now it's dead..😒
That was one of the things that pissed off the Natives, when the Pioneers came thru too. #jerky....The thing I hate the most is running a damn generator all day and night. I didn't burn up all that gas to get away from people, to listen to that noise the whole time. Or kids screaming and people partying all night.
I find people who flaunt sex in public places disgusting including basic boondocks … when my oldest child was 5 we had to really watch a certain couple bc we were in a camp ground waaay out but it was just us and them 🤮
#jerky The sh*t is the worst. Another thing that chaps my a$$ is when you are out in the wilderness for some peace and quiet to commune with nature, and people bring all of their friends, their boom boxes, a lot of alcohol, and have drunken parties to 3 AM, talking and yelling, drunken fights, etc.
The neighbors coming over and wanting to see your rig. Heck no. 1. Coming over to introduce themselves if I'm reading. 2. There kids coming over and won't leave.
I always park way away from everyone, lots of times I’m the only there & if anyone does come up… they, without fail, will park right next to me. I actually think it’s an intimation thing… like people who stand to close. Maybe they just don’t have any boundaries, IDK, but the one person I knew like that, was a detective. I stepped on his foot once, & put all my 165 lbs. on it.
I agree with all your Jerk List ! I recently had been boondocking in a Crackerbarrel because I’m in a city trying to finish my build and this guy at the Crackerbarrel started being jerk. Asked for my cell number and I said no twice and got manipulation then anger. He followed me to another location near park and Rec Center and blocked me in and started harassing me. I asked him to leave me alone and he left. The two nights later the next morning I wake up and find him parked 60 ft away in a Walmart parking lot 8 miles in other direction. Many other Walmarts in between both locations. So I thought maybe this guy was following me. I would watch all around as I drove and take different routes to where I needed to be. Found a new place to park last night and when I woke up he was not there. I don’t understand why people feel the need to interrupt your space. I try to be Friendly but mostly stick to myself in my van. I’ve boondocked in forests recently and most people seemed to mind their own business unless people acted like they wanted to chat.
As a 1-1 diabetic if I was travelling by myself I wouldn't Camp super close but knowing there was someone near personally would be helpful in an emergency situation for me. But yes I do agree with you and considering van life myself
Well, in your case perhaps you should travel with a friend or join a group and let your companions know how to help. Honestly, if you were near me and had issues, I'd be clueless as to how to help. The best I could do would be call for help but that's if there is reception.
@@rouxchat6033 that would be certainly a consideration of thoughts although as also a person with Autism (Asperger's) and mild interlectual disability I do like to be private also from time to time as I would find being in a group situation for to long would become awkward after a while but I would try to have emergency kits for hypos (low blood sugars) like sweets or candy available and for illness supplies but if I couldn't cope and there was someone near by I would definitely be knocking on their door and apologise for disturbing them to ask for help. Yes I do love my privacy too.
We were boondocking right outside Badland Natl PK. SD. Late afternoon a couple pulled up in a mini van and backed in right up next to our camper hitch (we had our truck parked by the side of our camper) We were parked in a spot that had only room for one camper. We had to go talk to them and tell them we were leaving at 5 am. and had to hook up the camper to the truck. They were mad about it but did leave. We felt bad asking them to leave but what could we have done? there was plenty of empty camping spots for them to pull into. The people camping closes to us came over and talked to us, they witnessed the whole thing, we talked along time, mainly about how dorky people can be.
I think there’s a problem with loose dogs. It’s nice to let your dog be able to be free, but not all dogs like strange dogs running up to their face. This is specially true of little dogs who are frightened of large dogs. So just because your dog is loose doesn’t mean that you don’t have any responsibility for your dog. I’m a dog trainer so I know how dangerous it can be when people are careless about their loose dogs.
Little dogs tend to be more of a problem, as owners dont think they need training. They can instigate a fight with a large dog, and sadly get hurt or killed. The big dog gets blamed, even though on a leash and didnt start the fight. Little dogs need training and leashes too, for their own safety. All pet owners need to be responsible fir their pets. Sad when they have food and ciggarettes for themselves, yet no food or fresh water for the animals 😑 Breaks my heart. I had to give a great dane water as owner didnt have any *she had gone to relatives for a party, yet didnt think to fill empty jugs with water?!? I didnt have any dog food amd the poor thing's ribs were showing. Give an animal up if you cannot afford to feed it, please.
Cigarette butts, bottle caps, broken bottles, and dog poop! I’m just finishing 4 months on the road and I have picked up and hauled out so much garbage from beautiful mountain sides. Now I’m in a city park and have no privacy but I do have air conditioning ! Fill and dump and I’m outa here! By the way, my dog is always leashed or tethered and she does not love everybody so please keep yours close to you on that horrid extending leash.
I so hate when people camp on top of me when there's lots of other space, then play loud music, break branches for a HUGE fire and throw bottles and cans in the fire. #jerk
I`m old, I have been in the outdoors a lot over the years. This crapping in camp and the woods and not taking care of it is somewhat new. The litter? I`ve been running in to that, all my life. I pick up all the litter I can, but sometimes it`s more than I can handle. Much of this I think it`s locals. I hope this will be talked about a lot at the RTRs.
Speaking the obvious may seem stupid, but well done for speaking the unsaid. You are a beacon for the silent majority. You wonder what is hidden between the ears of others - not a lot.
That happened to me this past summer the damn forest hat more than enough places to camp but this fool decided to pull his big rv and trailer right smack in front of my camp so what did I do, well first ofi asked him if maybe he could not park right in front of me and there were plenty of places to park. What days he say? Oh I always camp here sans everyone knows where to find me plus he gets Internet there ooookkkkk. Yup I acted a fool blasted my Mexican, rap, oldies, country music and made sure they heard it all cause not only did he come and park there his friend did too.i about had enough of that. I got very ghetto sorry but they left. I don't care how I got it done but if you're going to park right smack in front of me I can become very ghetto. Did I feel bad maybe but then I was minding my own business. He could have parked any where else around there and gotten internet. I have camped all over that forest and gotten internet. They thought I would leave nope I didn't but they did.🤷
Dig a cat hole, deposit you "stuff", cover it up and then put a few rocks on top. If you see some rocks on what appears to be freshly disturbed soil, trust me, leave it alone! (Putting rocks on top pretty much insures wild animals won't be able to dig it.)
I saw a video once where a guy took the toilet container out of his rv and tried to dump it right on the edge of a parking lot at Gibralter. The video person caught him and yelled at him until he went away. What a turkey.
Love your show, I'm from Australia and getting ready to travel around my beautiful country with my gorgeous dog, I only have a campervan that I fitted out , old toyota bus. Hope to travel for many years and gain as much experience as you and you lovely dog have. Keep safe.....Deb
I have had someone loose dog come up behind my dog barking at her trying to get her. 2 times, each time the owner said, my dog won’t hurt yours. If that was true their dog would approach mine from the front. My dog will now not let other dogs near her. Getting bite twice was enough.
We have a beautiful rainforest campground with a beach alonside it and pit toilets everywhere on our Canadian Island and still I saw people go use the forest instead of the amenities so close because parts of the forest are closer to the parking lot than the pit toilets. Toilet paper everywhere too. There are wild animals whose home is that forest. People can be so lazy and gross because they don't have to clean it up. There is summer help and they are very good at picking up most garbage. People even throw garbage and cans in the pit toilets when there's bear proof garbage cans everywhere. So lazy even some of them leave their garbage halfway in the garbage can so as not to open it. I pick up plastic off the beach all summer. So glad the people have gone home finally. Its clean and quiet now and the animals are free to roam
We used to be Oregon camp host and people would actually poop in the shower stalls....no lie! Couldn't figure that one out! The toilet was right there too! Sooooo disgusting!
Yep, right on target Carolyn.. thank you for addressing these jerky issues.. at least carry a trash bag with you and go in that and carry it to a trashcan.. really simple in my opinion..
When I was attempting my AT thru-hike in the '90s, one of the worst places for people not burying their poop and packing out their TP was in the Great Smokey Mountain NP at the shelters. You could easily see where the poop area was, as there were sodden piles of white TP scattered on the ground. Some shelters along the AT have outhouses, which are a luxury, but not all. So gross.
How about the 10,000 cigarette butts? What’s with that? Those things don’t disintegrate!! What is it that stops people from caring about the beautiful environment we have & share? Smoke if you want to… your choice… just take a ziplock bag along for your butts and throw them away when you get to a can.
Totally agree with you dear Carolyn but, how about putting a leach on our dogs?. Scare me to death every time I have an encounter with a dog without leach.😮 You forgot to mention that. Be safe!🤗
My biggest pet peeve is people's lack of respect for wild life safety. For example, we saw parents allowing their children to run to a bull elk during rutting season. It was only when I told the parents that the elk could kill them that they called the children back. This was in the Cascade mountains where the Pacific Crest Trail ends in Canada Another example, was when a friend entered Jasper National Park on the Alberta side of the Rockies at night and set up his site. This is grizzly territory, so he was shocked when the next morning behind a tree on his site someone had left a pail of fish heads and guts. That kind of stupidity can not only endanger other people but also endangers the lives of the animal if they were to attack. Sneaking in firewood from outside the region that could be infected with something (pine beetle) can destroy the other area. Not putting out your fire properly can cause a major forest fire. agree with everything you said. Know the friggin' rules or stay away.
I think that is why you have been successful , being too close to others can be a lot more danger than being alone. I’ve watched you clean up when you leave Having common sense is evident in all your films , A folding shovel is key
@@CarolynsRVLife I know, but I'm a retired military Master Sergeant with a "potty" mouth as some people say. 😊 I can cuss up a storm and run Sailor's out of a bar.😁
It boggles my mind that people don't realize that littering and 'organic' littering is not ok. I will say that I didn't know the 1/4 mile leeway when it is not crowded. And when I was younger I didn't know that toilet paper was bad to leave behind. It breaks down, so it didn't occur to me. But everyone knows that littering is bad.
I do a pre-camp trash/TP poop pickup and commence to daily clean up on walks and within 1/4 mile+ surrounding area leaving the area better than before. I'm committed to always clean up. Alas, my biggest woe is the trash/poop/noise/dust and damage from ATVs/side-by-sides and enthusiasts!
200 yards no closer, only thing as bad as trash and thats fishing line stung ever where near a fishing area, never crap in the woods without a usgi entrnching tool violating those standards are worse than being a jerk
Jerks are all over this world. I live on a country road in Arkansas where the beauty is interrupted with old tires, beer and soda cans, Mcdonald bags, couches thrown on the side of the road, I can go on. It makes me furious because peoples and have no clue that this is their environment they live in. Thank you to all the campers out there that clean up after them. They are the hero's.
#Jerky - people who give their kids hatchets (or do it themselves - 'Common Sense' is no longer common, it seems.) and let them go assault the trees - like that is what REAL campers and backpackers do. (If you're going to a campsite with a fire ring, bring your own seasoned wood. If you need to collect wood while you're out, there is usually plenty of deadfall.) But, at the very least, letting your kids randomly whack at living trees with a hatchet is just effing stupid. Teach them to care for the forest, not assault it.
Great video Carolyn! Now if only the JERKS would take your advice.. People are freaking ruining it for everyone your absolutely RIGHT.. It's really depressing to me personally.. IMO I won't rant but it sure boils my blood.
Yes Yes Yes Garbage Garbage Garbage Shit Shit Shit…I’ve witnessed all three of these Jerky Things ppl will do. Thank you for your reminders to ppl that haven’t learned Boondocking etiquette.
Sorry for the split post there a guy and his wife and little we had to past his camp on the way out he had left pretty big pile of trash among things we lived in needles at the time my dad stoped packed his trash up an dumped it in his front yard my father told me if he cought making a mess like that and leaving it that i would not like it
Your points would be on my list as well, even though I don’t have a list because I only travel through your videos for now. I wonder if the jerks even realize that they’ve ruined it for themselves, as well?
All these things are why I admire RV living but don't think I could do it. Seeing people doing any of these things all the time would make me furious all the time. Used to go boating a lot and people were frequently doing the first two jerkisms.
People who shit in the woods think it's funny. Mostly men in my experience (sorry but true) and if you happen to walk by them afterwards, they always have a gleeful smile on their face like a seven year old who knows they just did something nasty. Adults who behave like that are past reform.
I hear that the gold standard now is to pack out your poop and trash etc. Leave nothing behind, right? Question, since this is new to me: How to store your poop and trash in a way that doesn't stink up your vehicle until you can properly dispose of it?
1/4 mile is great. My drive way is 1/4 mile from county road . I stopped my hipcamp , becouse someone did not respecte my land ! But you are welcome if you need a night or two . For free. But you have to keep Sadie on a leash. Becouse my Sissy and I was attacked in a national forest camp ground ,we where swimming and this dog came at us ! Sissy was injured badly. I had scratches all over me ,trying to stop two large dogs from fighting . Please dog fights can be deadly ! Most public lands require leashes ... Dig a pop hole .please .
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And pick up your pets crap!
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Loved this video Carolyn. Hope your doing well. Hugs to you and sadie
We are volunteer camp hosts in Oregon State Parks. Surprisingly we run into that too. People pooping at their site when the bathroom is so close. Disgusting behavior!! My jerky thing to add is cigarette butts everywhere!!
Oh, yes, yes, and YES!!! Filthy butts are disgusting.
Somehow cigarettes smokers don't see throwing down their butts as throwing down garbage. It makes no sense. I think cigarette butts are the most common garbage seen anywhere on earth.
@@pamflowers8364 I agree, Pam!
People who go camping and bring every electronic device they own and set them up. Blasting music, loud partying, etc. Just stay home if you don't want peace and quiet!!!
OMG I was in a campground recently next to a giant rv with an outdoor 40" TV Screen and a Sunday night football party! I mean...
@@CarolynsRVLife i LOVE football, but dang!!! Not while camping. Or only with headphones.
That's why I boondock as far out as possible. However, some still manage to find me. 🙁
I was going to add the loud music and partying. We had someone camp close to us one time who brought a Karaoke machine. I could handle it until 10 (barely), but after that I was done.
Walking through peoples campsite, this happens a lot at so called "resorts"!
Not picking up after your dog. Just two of my pet peeves on camping not just boondocking. Thanks Caroline!!
Someone with a very large dog left a whopping pile of dog crap in the middle of our marina's parking lot last week. Even with a designated poop area and a dog poop bag dispenser. Jerks with no manners.
I don't understand the lack of personal space. When my daughter was younger, people (usually men) would stand very close to her in lines. I would have to insert myself in between her and the person behind her all the time. When she was a teenager I taught her to step back on the person's foot "accidentally". She had long hair too so I taught her to whip her hair around and then say "I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were so close to me" with a nice smile. Just give people their space. It's not hard.
Another jerky thing is people who pull into a campsite late at night and then make lots of noise while they are hollering directions to each other and setting up camp. I get that maybe they had some kind of trouble that caused them to arrive late, but they could at least have the courtesy to try to be quiet, especially if they pull in close to other campers, who have their lights out and are obviously in bed.
DROWN YOUR CAMPFIRE before you leave. Make CERTAIN it is OUT! #Jerky
Yes, and don't burn bottle tops, cans, glass and other garbage that the next person has to clean out.
And cigarette butts don’t burn!
Well said! Manners and respect for others is not a given these days and it’s getting worst.
It’s very depressing and sad to say the least to watch what is happening in this country.
Thank you for having the courage to address this issue in you channel.
Oh yes Caroline I agree with you 100%....The most disgusting thing ever to do for the next camper to be greeted by his thrash....maybe he does that at his front door to greet his guest...HIS BIG JERK
She’s a doll, honestly.
The "jerk" rvers are every where! Blue Water Casino in Parker Az has had enough.. closed their dry camping area and you can only stay in the Casino lot until midnight! Even McDonalds blocked off their large parking lot behind the restaurant... sad! People are disgusting.... ruin everything for everybody else!
Yeah, that's the sad part. Those that ruin it for the rest of us.
Yes, the Blue Water Casino seems to get more than their fair share of jerky RVers. Good for them for clamping down, but bad for us who would like to stop there and treat it respectfully.
Those people should be looked at home or prison.
A real jerky thing is when a nearby camper decides that everyone should like their music and they blast it through their super boom box. Music is ok but not so loud you can hear it half a mile away. I guess some think others will be impressed with their favorite songs. This is not true people! 🤔
Last year I went tent camping. I was at least half a mile from other campers. Around midnight a gaggle of drunks set up camp about a city block from me. They started letting off fireworks aimed at my camp site. Had a ton of tiny holes burned on my tent. I was alone, so I packed up and left. I don't understand the behavior of the few who ruin camping for the rest of us. Happy travels and stay safe Carolyn. 🤗
Often it's deliberate to get you to leave. Sorry that happened to you.
My pet peeve is with what I assume are jerky LOCALS. They come in to a dispersed campsite with their rv/trailer set it up on let’s say a Monday and don’t come back until Friday evening and spend the weekend in what they call their rightful campsite that has been occupied by their family for generations and then leave the occupied site for the week. This goes on all summer. In the meantime I’m trying to find a site to camp and all the dispersed sites are “occupied” in this manner. So frustrating and if you talk to the local land management agency, they just nod their head to placate you and do nothing. Grrr….!!!
Yep, I've run into that. Someday they'll moan and groan because some dirt bag broke into it and trashed it. Oh well!
I find this so true. Why has entitlement inundated our country.
These people should just leave a key so others can enjoy a free spot.
I was at a spot for 14 days and the next campsite wasn't occupied the whole time. It was a trailer with 2 chairs outside and a rug.
Maybe the people were dead inside. This is what I kept telling myself.
The trailer looked like it had been there for awhile.
TOTALLY agree. I've only been full time on the road since February 26th and I have seen ALL the things you mentioned in spades! The camp previous to this one was in Mesa Verde. As I walked my dog every day, I saw "poop" covered with some sticks, covered with toilet paper, as well as toilet paper, women's personal items, bottles, cans, junk of every possible kind throughout the campground AND YOU'RE RIGHT...why would they allow people in these various forests and campgrounds if we aren't responsible enough to take care of the spaces???? Well, the answer is, they won't and now with many of the Florida campgrounds closed, the west will probably be inundated with those campers as well. Let's ALL not be JERKS and follow the advice Carolyn just provided us!!! Thanks Carolyn, I, for one, will not be a JERK! 😇
Can't tell you how much garbage and, yes, crap and TP I've bagged up and hauled out to properly dispose. It's disgusting!!!
@@rouxchat6033 Those that do that are the _real_ RV heroes/heroines. So thank you!! I pick up trash but admittedly not poop. How does one properly dispose of others crap without getting it on themselves?
@@celestepalm6949 Same as picking up dog feces. Invert a plastic bag, or two, and bag it up. I've yet to get any on me. I carry another larger plastic bag to put the feces filled bags into along with other trash.
@@rouxchat6033 Thanks!
Anyone who gets mad at your list is someone I don't want parked next to me!
It's calling people jerks that will upset people. They'll whine that it's not very kind.
I think calling someone who leaves their shit on the ground a jerk is VERY Kind. I have lots of less kind adjectives :-p
Piss bottles is something I've found. Absolutely disgusting.
This is why the Walmarts in my area stopped allowing overnight parking.
It's so nice seeing those in roadside rest stops. Why don't they at least pour it down the public toilet and properly dispose of the empty container? 🤔
I'll feel safer to NOT have anyone close by. Especially if I was there first, and if I wasn't there first, I wouldn't stay as you stated. Another thing is loud music. I love my music....MY MUSIC. Even if they're camped where I can't see them, I can sometimes still hear them and that's just rude. I've camped all of my life and had a special secluded place where we had privacy and the only noise was us. It was so beautiful, right on the river with clear water and a gorgeous cliff on the other side. The entire area got washed away one year in a flood. I still miss it! We went several times a year and when we weren't there, we were talking about being there. We dug a deep hole and had this make-shift 3-part seat that we could do our business in and then we would haul buckets of sand and rock to cover the business hole. We were pretty proud of that seat!
And another is letting your dog run free which scares the inhabitants of forest and possibly killing the animals!
I would definitely agree as dogs are not natural to that environment but try telling that to dog people. Everyone has that opportunity to be a jerk and more often than. It has been that jerk without realizing it because he’ll I think alot of people enjoy being the victim of the jerk not realizing how much of a jerk they are too in maybe some other ways.
It’s showing up to your area and having a loud party with loud music all night and keeping everybody up
Growing up our local state park was open 24/7. Night fishing was allowed. It wasn't campers that caused them to gate and block entrances...it was the locals throwing away their trash...couches, mattresses, bikes....all kinds of things they didn't want to pay the fee to dispose of it properly.
Yes, that's so true. I pack out as much garbage as possible left by dirt bags but I've no way to remove large, heavy objects. Those are entirely locals.
Not everyone will abide, & has to go somewhere. If I were mayor, the landfill would paid for with taxes, just to keep my town trash-free.
If you need company to feel safe, don’t go to the boondocks!!!
Exactly! But people do.
Agreed.👍
Ok but as a city dweller people do this jerky stuff right in the city too! I don't know wtf is WRONG with people these days and I have no filter between brain and mouth so my adult daughter finds going anywhere with me either hilarious or embarrassing lol! I swear common sense and common courtesy are things of the past. Should be called RARE sense or RARE courtesy unfortunately. Thank you as always for sharing Caroline. I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend.
It's not just Boondocking 🤣.
At Canadian Tire today, I parked my 30' rig way far away from everyone so I could easily turn to get out.
When I came out, there were cars on either side of me, in the middle of nowhere, with empty places closer to the store! 🤣🤣🤣
YEP!! 🤬 My pet peeve is women leaving toilet paper!!! My dog will find it and I have to take it out of her mouth! 🤢 Take a Ziploc bag with you!!
I've had this problem countless times! all kinds of empty spaces and they park as close to my rig as possible! magnetic attraction, maybe?
Good rules in every situation! Beaches, mountains,forests,lakes.
I hate campsites that smell like people piss and there is a restroom 1000 feet away!!
How lazy and dirty!!!
That's hilarious because it needs to be said as well as disgusting!
It's so true, folks.
And it not exclusively happens in the woods.
I saw a truckdriver parked in a dock door at a large warehouse, in broad daylight, take a dump under his trailer while it was being unloaded.
There was a porta potty 20 yards away.
But there's one worse.
Some trucker teams would drill a large hole in the sleeper floor to the outside and relieve themselves down it.
Naturally their "stuff" would be blown everywhere.
Another reason not to tailgate trucks.
Then they would pull over a pit to have engine oil changed and get refused service.
Or over a pit like the California Highway Patrol has at weigh stations for inspections.
The cops would, by my understanding, take the perpetrators to jail and impound the truck until a haz-mat team could decontaminate the vehicle.
Then send the truckers the massive bill, a bill equal to one as if they spilled a caustic or radioactive substance.
Ha, Ha. Real funny. To go dump in the woods. Nobody will know. Obviously, Carolyn found it while not even looking. Individual DNA can be tracked in a person's stool, destructive deficators.
Not to mention, I'm just a big enough sonofabitch to video them in the act and forward the video to authorities.
Would the big brother government investigate?
Identify deficators by DNA?
Yeah, maybe.
And I and many others would help them.
I'd help because I despise lazy people.
People too lazy to line a 5 gallon bucket with a plastic bag and dispose of it properly.
Anyone can bitch about their precious rights being taken away.
But why is it always the same people who complain about infringement of their precious rights the first ones to destroy the rights of others?
Carolyn is right on!
And if someone wants to prove their bravado by camping in the woods they can't do that by being afraid to be alone with themselves.
I don't park in truck stops because I don't want to listen to someone else's TV all night, I don't want to get my vehicle hit by some half asleep half wit, and I'm only there to.rest not to socialize.
Great vid, Carolyn.
I was a Girl Scout and they always had us take our trash out. We were to leave the camp as we found it or even better if some jerk had left their trash. IF someone is out by themselves they are there for a reason. They want their privacy for whatever reason so I would never park near them. I hope when I do "hit the road" that I will be a good boon docker! Thanks Carolyn for reminding us all about the kindness we should show each other.
I can't tell you the number of times I have found Human poop on the surface at dispersed camp sites. You are absolutely correct in listing that as the number "1" most disgusting thing to find in a boondocking site. Here is a short video showing one of the sites I found. When my son and I boondock we take along a post-hole digger and dig a hole about 3 feet deep far out away from camp. That is our Latrine for the stay. When we get ready to leave, we fill in the hole part way with dirt and then add a few large rocks on top of that to prevent someone from digging there again. We also put several large rocks on the surface over the hole to mark the site. Only Human waste goes in the hole. We always pack out all of about other garbage that won't burn in the last campfire.
I once found a site up Golar Gulch on the Mojave Desert where some stupid-ass person left many piles of poop and toilet paper on the ground. You could tell from the "Freshness" that they had left the night before. But that wasn't all. In the fire pit they left 2 dozen eggs, several unopened packages of snacks, and 16 cans of beer. In the fire pit no less! I must admit that I scattered the eggs on a hill side for the critters, and I properly disposed of the beer. But not before I ran it through my Kidneys first. I very much enjoy your videos.
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I don’t like other campers come over to talk to me. I camp because I want some quiet and solitude, not being social. I know most people mean well but I feel uncomfortable when I can’t return the gesture.
Omg you had me cracking up ranting about the jerky people shitting!!😅😅😂
What gets me is seeing those little doggie bags full of dogshit lying right on the trail. The forest doesn't need that plastic! I don't get too uptight about the occasional dog turd in the woods, really don't think it's gonna hasten ecological collapse. But plastic is gross! Oh and once I had a campsite where I had to clean up the previous occupants' garbage, well, it still smelled like food so it won't surpise you to know that night, big widely spaced eyes shone in my flashlight beam when I checked out why the dogs were going apeshit.
I agree with all your jerk list. I'll add dog poop too. It's fine, way out in the woods and off trail, but everywhere I camp in the desert, I see people letting their dogs poo right in the middle of everything. Pick it up people. I'm constantly picking up trash, but I refuse to pick up the toilet paper drops. One campsite I was at I cleaned up transmissiion parts, fenders, car seats, etc. Worst of all is broken glass and nails from burning pallets. I've also had to ask people not to park up my ass. If I can hear them farting at night it's rudely close. But, it's not just out boondocking you see this, today as I walked thru a parking lot, there was a small dog's pile of poo, right in a handicap spot. People have been messy A#%holes since the beginning of time. ☮
Oh yeah, that's not acceptable. I try to pick up Sadie's poop when it's out in the open. Especially if if it's a place people camp.
AGREED!
We have gourgus natinal forest where i live .and a national park .
A few years ago the boondocking camping was almost closed .
Some camp sites where .
Becouse of trash !!!
Me and a friend talked to the van full of goverment officials from the department of interior.
We had my jeep full of trash from cleaning up those boondocking sites.we beg them not to close the area . The could of easly, see it is part of a wilderness area .
All they would of had to do is bring a bulldozer and block the dirt road .
Now after horsebacked the area ,
I wish they would of ...
Well, I pick up after my dog even way out on hiking trails and pack it out just as if it were my own. What gets me is seeing plastic bags filled with poop (assuming it's dog feces), tied off and tossed next to the trail. Huh? What the heck is up with that?
As this planet/nature/ our forests, our wildlife/our waterways, etc... decay.... all due to the delusional, ignorant actions of stupid, nasty humans...we’re spending millions and billions of dollars to launch spaceships, drones and other weird technology to space....to check out other planets and the moon. Wtf?
Doesn’t make sense to me. Humans screwed up this planet...not non humans. We’ve got poverty, homelessness, hunger, wildfires, Hurricanes, flooding, tsunamis, tornadoes, hail storms (the actual size of the hail is huge...bigger than golf balls). Can’t afford our medicines or even a one day hospital stay.
Humans are obsessed with greed, the need to feel powerful, status, and they want more and more and more. Yet when the humans spend a day at the beach or at a park...no one picks up behind themselves... it’s disgusting.
I’m old...live alone (kinda like that but can’t do so many things I used to do anymore...I’m almost 75 yrs old)...I’m barely eking by..because I keep rescuing stray critters...and I don’t get why people and spaceships are going out into space. We can’t seem to fix our own planet’s issues...and yet....we’re gonna go destroy more planets?
Makes me super angry. I prefer hanging with my non human pals. Never lonely...and much more content. And..my outside critters (14 tnrd cats, 3 raccoons, 4 opossums, squirrels...and a few bunnies) ... they all seem to get along just fine. The cats just lay around my deck at night and watch the other critters come and go...they’re eating leftover cat kibble ...but raccoons will kind of eat just about anything. My home is tiny. Set up cozy for me and the 2 sickly strays I took in. This is who I am now. I do what I can...but I make sure the critters and cats all get fresh food and fresh water...in clean bowls.
Most humans just annoy the hell out of me. 🤦♀️😏. For real. I don’t know how you put up with some of the horrible idiots you must come across..😏🙄. Hugs and love to you and your sweet fur baby. ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍💫💫💫
I have seen 👀 👀 that, #Jerky..I went camping with my Son-in -law and yes di did just that he S^^t in the woods against a tree. Didn't even Bury it. Left the toilet paper on the ground. Told daughter to give her a set of her surgical gloves and tell him to Pick Up that paper. Also Told her how Ashamed I was to be camping with THEM. IT'S SO SAD THERE IS such discussing people being raised now Days 😪 😞 😔 😕 I raised her and my 2 other kids better than that. "TAKE OUT WHAT YOU BRING IN, if your REALLY KIND. Do a little extra to help that place to be there another day, when you come again " God wonderful nature needs caring Hands ✋ and people 😊 ❤
Sadly any of us...or at least most of us here aren’t going to do these things so she’s preaching to the choir. I totally agree with all she speaks of and I think we can all agree it only takes a few a - holes to screw things up. Grrr...
A few years ago I was at a free campground in Oregon and I went to bed in my tent. I woke up around midnight to hear a vehicle pull into the site next to me and he began pulling things out of his vehicle. I kept waiting and waiting for it to stop but it never did. He was out there making noise unloading his crap out of his vehicle for hours on end making far too much noise.
That's when you get up early and make your own noise while he's trying to sleep in.
@@NYCHFAN Yep, overly load music works very well at 6 am. Or, depending on where you are, a little target practice gets their attention.😉
@@NYCHFAN amazingly the guy was still awake when I got up and I didn't see him ever go to bed. I suspected he had bipolar disorder and he was on the upswing and couldn't sleep and took everybody else down with him
Absolutely right! No arguments from me. I'd add broken glass & nails from construction wood scraps. Brian (Adventure Van Man) runs a bid powerful magnet all round campsites and protects his feet , his tires, & future visitors.
Quarter mile can be tough these days.. just picked up 4 full size dog food bags full of trash someone left behind.. luckily the bears didn't get into it..a guy was staying in a spot nearby and peeled the bark off a sweet shade tree last summer. .. now it's dead..😒
That was one of the things that pissed off the Natives, when the Pioneers came thru too. #jerky....The thing I hate the most is running a damn generator all day and night. I didn't burn up all that gas to get away from people, to listen to that noise the whole time. Or kids screaming and people partying all night.
You’d love Slim Potato Head’s channel.
@@sunshine3914 I watch him all the time, I have for years.
I find people who flaunt sex in public places disgusting including basic boondocks … when my oldest child was 5 we had to really watch a certain couple bc we were in a camp ground waaay out but it was just us and them 🤮
#jerky The sh*t is the worst. Another thing that chaps my a$$ is when you are out in the wilderness for some peace and quiet to commune with nature, and people bring all of their friends, their boom boxes, a lot of alcohol, and have drunken parties to 3 AM, talking and yelling, drunken fights, etc.
The neighbors coming over and wanting to see your rig. Heck no.
1. Coming over to introduce themselves if I'm reading.
2. There kids coming over and won't leave.
👍 Great video! People are disgusting! Thank you Carolyn for addressing this subject. Well done. 👍
Bless your heart carolyn! You tell it like it is! I agree 100%
I always park way away from everyone, lots of times I’m the only there & if anyone does come up… they, without fail, will park right next to me. I actually think it’s an intimation thing… like people who stand to close. Maybe they just don’t have any boundaries, IDK, but the one person I knew like that, was a detective. I stepped on his foot once, & put all my 165 lbs. on it.
I agree with all your Jerk List !
I recently had been boondocking in a Crackerbarrel because I’m in a city trying to finish my build and this guy at the Crackerbarrel started being jerk.
Asked for my cell number and I said no twice and got manipulation then anger.
He followed me to another location near park and Rec Center and blocked me in and started harassing me. I asked him to leave me alone and he left. The two nights later the next morning I wake up and find him parked 60 ft away in a Walmart parking lot 8 miles in other direction. Many other Walmarts in between both locations. So I thought maybe this guy was following me. I would watch all around as I drove and take different routes to where I needed to be. Found a new place to park last night and when I woke up he was not there. I don’t understand why people feel the need to interrupt your space. I try to be Friendly but mostly stick to myself in my van. I’ve boondocked in forests recently and most people seemed to mind their own business unless people acted like they wanted to chat.
As a 1-1 diabetic if I was travelling by myself I wouldn't Camp super close but knowing there was someone near personally would be helpful in an emergency situation for me. But yes I do agree with you and considering van life myself
The "Quarter-Mile Rule" sounds good enough to me.
Well, in your case perhaps you should travel with a friend or join a group and let your companions know how to help. Honestly, if you were near me and had issues, I'd be clueless as to how to help. The best I could do would be call for help but that's if there is reception.
@@rouxchat6033 that would be certainly a consideration of thoughts although as also a person with Autism (Asperger's) and mild interlectual disability I do like to be private also from time to time as I would find being in a group situation for to long would become awkward after a while but I would try to have emergency kits for hypos (low blood sugars) like sweets or candy available and for illness supplies but if I couldn't cope and there was someone near by I would definitely be knocking on their door and apologise for disturbing them to ask for help. Yes I do love my privacy too.
@@estherlouisamay I would be happy to have you camp near me. Anything can happen to anyone, at any time.
It BLOWS my mind that people would come camping and then leave piles of trash. People are just DISGUSTING sometimes.
We were boondocking right outside Badland Natl PK. SD. Late afternoon a couple pulled up in a mini van and backed in right up next to our camper hitch (we had our truck parked by the side of our camper) We were parked in a spot that had only room for one camper. We had to go talk to them and tell them we were leaving at 5 am. and had to hook up the camper to the truck. They were mad about it but did leave. We felt bad asking them to leave but what could we have done? there was plenty of empty camping spots for them to pull into. The people camping closes to us came over and talked to us, they witnessed the whole thing, we talked along time, mainly about how dorky people can be.
I think there’s a problem with loose dogs. It’s nice to let your dog be able to be free, but not all dogs like strange dogs running up to their face. This is specially true of little dogs who are frightened of large dogs. So just because your dog is loose doesn’t mean that you don’t have any responsibility for your dog. I’m a dog trainer so I know how dangerous it can be when people are careless about their loose dogs.
Little dogs tend to be more of a problem, as owners dont think they need training. They can instigate a fight with a large dog, and sadly get hurt or killed. The big dog gets blamed, even though on a leash and didnt start the fight.
Little dogs need training and leashes too, for their own safety.
All pet owners need to be responsible fir their pets. Sad when they have food and ciggarettes for themselves, yet no food or fresh water for the animals 😑
Breaks my heart. I had to give a great dane water as owner didnt have any *she had gone to relatives for a party, yet didnt think to fill empty jugs with water?!? I didnt have any dog food amd the poor thing's ribs were showing. Give an animal up if you cannot afford to feed it, please.
I don't "jerk" intentionally but jerks are drawn to me, which is just SO annoying .
Cigarette butts, bottle caps, broken bottles, and dog poop! I’m just finishing 4 months on the road and I have picked up and hauled out so much garbage from beautiful mountain sides. Now I’m in a city park and have no privacy but I do have air conditioning ! Fill and dump and I’m outa here! By the way, my dog is always leashed or tethered and she does not love everybody so please keep yours close to you on that horrid extending leash.
I so hate when people camp on top of me when there's lots of other space, then play loud music, break branches for a HUGE fire and throw bottles and cans in the fire. #jerk
I`m old, I have been in the outdoors a lot over the years. This crapping in camp and the woods and not taking care of it is somewhat new. The litter? I`ve been running in to that, all my life. I pick up all the litter I can, but sometimes it`s more than I can handle. Much of this I think it`s locals. I hope this will be talked about a lot at the RTRs.
Speaking the obvious may seem stupid, but well done for speaking the unsaid. You are a beacon for the silent majority. You wonder what is hidden between the ears of others - not a lot.
That happened to me this past summer the damn forest hat more than enough places to camp but this fool decided to pull his big rv and trailer right smack in front of my camp so what did I do, well first ofi asked him if maybe he could not park right in front of me and there were plenty of places to park. What days he say? Oh I always camp here sans everyone knows where to find me plus he gets Internet there ooookkkkk. Yup I acted a fool blasted my Mexican, rap, oldies, country music and made sure they heard it all cause not only did he come and park there his friend did too.i about had enough of that. I got very ghetto sorry but they left. I don't care how I got it done but if you're going to park right smack in front of me I can become very ghetto. Did I feel bad maybe but then I was minding my own business. He could have parked any where else around there and gotten internet. I have camped all over that forest and gotten internet. They thought I would leave nope I didn't but they did.🤷
Dig a cat hole, deposit you "stuff", cover it up and then put a few rocks on top. If you see some rocks on what appears to be freshly disturbed soil, trust me, leave it alone! (Putting rocks on top pretty much insures wild animals won't be able to dig it.)
I saw a video once where a guy took the toilet container out of his rv and tried to dump it right on the edge of a parking lot at Gibralter. The video person caught him and yelled at him until he went away. What a turkey.
Love your show, I'm from Australia and getting ready to travel around my beautiful country with my gorgeous dog, I only have a campervan that I fitted out , old toyota bus. Hope to travel for many years and gain as much experience as you and you lovely dog have. Keep safe.....Deb
Those close Parker’s? They’re the same ones who sit next to you on an empty bus
Good one, Carolyn!❤
This world is going to Hell in a hand basket.
I knew #1 was coming...lol.
Love the dancing poop 💩
I have had someone loose dog come up behind my dog barking at her trying to get her. 2 times, each time the owner said, my dog won’t hurt yours. If that was true their dog would approach mine from the front. My dog will now not let other dogs near her. Getting bite twice was enough.
We have a beautiful rainforest campground with a beach alonside it and pit toilets everywhere on our Canadian Island and still I saw people go use the forest instead of the amenities so close because parts of the forest are closer to the parking lot than the pit toilets. Toilet paper everywhere too. There are wild animals whose home is that forest. People can be so lazy and gross because they don't have to clean it up. There is summer help and they are very good at picking up most garbage. People even throw garbage and cans in the pit toilets when there's bear proof garbage cans everywhere. So lazy even some of them leave their garbage halfway in the garbage can so as not to open it. I pick up plastic off the beach all summer. So glad the people have gone home finally. Its clean and quiet now and the animals are free to roam
That's disgusting! Then the dogs will eat human shit too!! Aweful!! Yuk!!
Thank you so much for mentioning these . ❤️
We used to be Oregon camp host and people would actually poop in the shower stalls....no lie! Couldn't figure that one out! The toilet was right there too! Sooooo disgusting!
thank goodness I have never been unsubscribed by UA-cam. I have been subscribed for years now and have the bell so I get notified too.
Yep, right on target Carolyn.. thank you for addressing these jerky issues.. at least carry a trash bag with you and go in that and carry it to a trashcan.. really simple in my opinion..
In Utah at a BLM location... there was a guy there that emptied his black tank right at the sight. It's so disrespectful. And nasty!
You nailed it!
Right ON Carolyn~~~~
OMG, I agree with everything that you said xoxo 😘
When I was attempting my AT thru-hike in the '90s, one of the worst places for people not burying their poop and packing out their TP was in the Great Smokey Mountain NP at the shelters. You could easily see where the poop area was, as there were sodden piles of white TP scattered on the ground. Some shelters along the AT have outhouses, which are a luxury, but not all. So gross.
How about the 10,000 cigarette butts? What’s with that? Those things don’t disintegrate!! What is it that stops people from caring about the beautiful environment we have & share? Smoke if you want to… your choice… just take a ziplock bag along for your butts and throw them away when you get to a can.
Former smoker, guilty.
@@sallys2423 not judging sister… just creating awareness! Congratulations to you on your “former” status!!
A jerky thing people do is playing their awful music so loud you can hear it a mile away at 2 in the morning!
Great advice Carolyn 💕
My comment? You nailed number 3. I can’t even top that.
Totally agree with you dear Carolyn but, how about putting a leach on our dogs?. Scare me to death every time I have an encounter with a dog without leach.😮 You forgot to mention that. Be safe!🤗
My biggest pet peeve is people's lack of respect for wild life safety. For example, we saw parents allowing their children to run to a bull elk during rutting season. It was only when I told the parents that the elk could kill them that they called the children back. This was in the Cascade mountains where the Pacific Crest Trail ends in Canada Another example, was when a friend entered Jasper National Park on the Alberta side of the Rockies at night and set up his site. This is grizzly territory, so he was shocked when the next morning behind a tree on his site someone had left a pail of fish heads and guts. That kind of stupidity can not only endanger other people but also endangers the lives of the animal if they were to attack. Sneaking in firewood from outside the region that could be infected with something (pine beetle) can destroy the other area. Not putting out your fire properly can cause a major forest fire. agree with everything you said. Know the friggin' rules or stay away.
Love your videos!
I think that is why you have been successful , being too close to others can be a lot more danger than being alone. I’ve watched you clean up when you leave
Having common sense is evident in all your films , A folding shovel is key
👍🏿💯 Amen and A women, stop spoiling it for us nature lovers. I've refrained from using my sincere f-bomb and using 'spoiling' instead. 😁
LOL. F bombs are welcome here!! :-)
@@CarolynsRVLife I know, but I'm a retired military Master Sergeant with a "potty" mouth as some people say. 😊 I can cuss up a storm and run Sailor's out of a bar.😁
It boggles my mind that people don't realize that littering and 'organic' littering is not ok. I will say that I didn't know the 1/4 mile leeway when it is not crowded. And when I was younger I didn't know that toilet paper was bad to leave behind. It breaks down, so it didn't occur to me. But everyone knows that littering is bad.
I do a pre-camp trash/TP poop pickup and commence to daily clean up on walks and within 1/4 mile+ surrounding area leaving the area better than before. I'm committed to always clean up. Alas, my biggest woe is the trash/poop/noise/dust and damage from ATVs/side-by-sides and enthusiasts!
200 yards no closer, only thing as bad as trash and thats fishing line stung ever where near a fishing area, never crap in the woods without a usgi entrnching tool violating those standards are worse than being a jerk
Thanks Carolyn, very informative.
Thanks for watching!
Jerks are all over this world. I live on a country road in Arkansas where the beauty is interrupted with old tires, beer and soda cans, Mcdonald bags, couches thrown on the side of the road, I can go on. It makes me furious because peoples and have no clue that this is their environment they live in. Thank you to all the campers out there that clean up after them. They are the hero's.
#Jerky - people who give their kids hatchets (or do it themselves - 'Common Sense' is no longer common, it seems.) and let them go assault the trees - like that is what REAL campers and backpackers do. (If you're going to a campsite with a fire ring, bring your own seasoned wood. If you need to collect wood while you're out, there is usually plenty of deadfall.) But, at the very least, letting your kids randomly whack at living trees with a hatchet is just effing stupid. Teach them to care for the forest, not assault it.
Great video Carolyn! Now if only the JERKS would take your advice.. People are freaking ruining it for everyone your absolutely RIGHT.. It's really depressing to me personally.. IMO
I won't rant but it sure boils my blood.
Yes Yes Yes Garbage Garbage Garbage Shit Shit Shit…I’ve witnessed all three of these Jerky Things ppl will do. Thank you for your reminders to ppl that haven’t learned Boondocking etiquette.
Sorry for the split post there a guy and his wife and little we had to past his camp on the way out he had left pretty big pile of trash among things we lived in needles at the time my dad stoped packed his trash up an dumped it in his front yard my father told me if he cought making a mess like that and leaving it that i would not like it
Your points would be on my list as well, even though I don’t have a list because I only travel through your videos for now. I wonder if the jerks even realize that they’ve ruined it for themselves, as well?
All these things are why I admire RV living but don't think I could do it. Seeing people doing any of these things all the time would make me furious all the time. Used to go boating a lot and people were frequently doing the first two jerkisms.
People think they can pee in the lake.
People who shit in the woods think it's funny. Mostly men in my experience (sorry but true) and if you happen to walk by them afterwards, they always have a gleeful smile on their face like a seven year old who knows they just did something nasty. Adults who behave like that are past reform.
I hear that the gold standard now is to pack out your poop and trash etc. Leave nothing behind, right? Question, since this is new to me: How to store your poop and trash in a way that doesn't stink up your vehicle until you can properly dispose of it?
Pack it in, Pack it out - just common sense. Good list.
1/4 mile is great.
My drive way is 1/4 mile from county road .
I stopped my hipcamp , becouse someone did not respecte my land !
But you are welcome if you need a night or two . For free.
But you have to keep Sadie on a leash. Becouse my Sissy and I was attacked in a national forest camp ground ,we where swimming and this dog came at us ! Sissy was injured badly. I had scratches all over me ,trying to stop two large dogs from fighting . Please dog fights can be deadly ! Most public lands require leashes ...
Dig a pop hole .please .
I hate it when they play their so called “music” really loud.
Well said, Carolyn!!