by Adayak » Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:13 pm
by Bob Sihler » Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:15 pm
jdzaharia wrote:"Wilderness" is a place where you do not want to spend an unplanned night.
by jfrishmanIII » Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:42 pm
Actually, I like your idea and had a similar one myself: "Where if you get hurt, you're in deep shit." But then I've been places where wilderness is steps from the car.
by Arthur Digbee » Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:42 pm
MikeTX wrote:believe it or not, texas has so-called wilderness areas.
by jdzaharia » Fri Apr 16, 2010 4:57 pm
Bob Sihler wrote:jdzaharia wrote:"Wilderness" is a place where you do not want to spend an unplanned night.
East L.A. South Bronx. All of Ohio.
by Lolli » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:53 pm
by welle » Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:42 pm
jdzaharia wrote: Heck, a coworker almost had to spend an unplanned night at work when he got locked in the hallway to the bathrooms. While that would really stink, it's not wilderness.
by Arthur Digbee » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:30 am
Lolli wrote:To me, wilderness is unroaded land, vast, and if you're lost, it will take you days to get back. Forest or mountaineous presumably. But that's simply because that's the way it is here.
by dan2see » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:31 am
BLong wrote:My favorite parts of the legal definition are locations that offer opportunities for "solitude or primitive and unconfined recreation" and are "untrammeled by man."
by billisfree » Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:23 am
by Lolli » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:28 pm
Arthur Digbee wrote:Lolli wrote:To me, wilderness is unroaded land, vast, and if you're lost, it will take you days to get back. Forest or mountaineous presumably. But that's simply because that's the way it is here.
Sweden needs a desert. Or tundra. Or prairie. Or a really big cave.
You can get lost in any of those, very well.
by EastcoastMike » Sat Apr 17, 2010 3:40 pm
by Arthur Digbee » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:53 pm
dan2see wrote:"Untrammeled": now that's more like it!
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