Defiance (NPS edition)

[ttocswob]

During the next 24 to 48 hours, yours truly will be afoot or afloat inside a national park boundary, engaged in sporting activity including fishing and/or hunting, lawfully armed, and with everything else I need except a backcountry permit.

 

Of course I've hunted, fished, canoed, hiked and camped in these parts long before the NPS had any interest in the place.

 

I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

Thanx, Scott Bow aka ttocswob

 

(NSA there's your code - you can stop now)

 

(edit title to distinguish from movie tv show I didn't see and game I didn't play.)

Edited October 11, 2013 by ttocswob

[rugerla1]

Enjoy yourself and be safe! :up:

[TrickyNicky]

[mikegideon]

Go for it! What can they do except try to chase you off?

[Oh Shoot]

Go for it! What can they do except try to chase you off?

 

Heard on radio $125 fine is about the worst that would happen.

 

- OS

[Monkeyman2500]

Good luck and be safe. Watch out for park rangers, uh I mean schutzstaffel.

[Spiffy]

I thought this was going to be a thread about the tv show/video game.

[Wiljo05]

Enjoy the peace and quiet! Watch out for drones patrolling for trespassers though

[peejman]

Think it'll work?

It'll take a miracle.

Bye bye!

Love that movie! :)

[TMF]

Momentary thread hijack:

My wife and I were staying at a cabin a few months back and they still had an old VHS player with about three dozen cassettes. Of course, one of them was The Princess Bride. Needless to say, we marked an evening on the calendar while we enjoyed that and a couple bottles of wine. We even remembered to rewind it!

[GlockSpock]

[quote name="Spiffy" post="1046870" timestamp="1381495249"] I thought this was going to be a thread about the tv show/video game.[/quote] 'Twas a movie first. A very good one at that. It will make you want to go buy M44's! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - [url="http://tapatalk.com/m?id=1"]now Free[/url] Edited October 11, 2013 by CZ9MM

[Grunt67]

Enjoy the peace and quiet! Watch out for drones patrolling for trespassers though

 

 Funny, but wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[Spiffy]

'Twas a movie first. A very good one at that. It will make you want to go buy M44's!


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I didn't know this!  Off to look for it!

[ttocswob]

Just a few hours before launch - dang GOP will probably cave in and make this misadventure legal :(

[MacGyver]

I was up at Mammoth Cave a couple weekends ago floating the Green River from Dennison Ferry out to Houchins Ferry. 

 

 

I can say that it was 19.5 mile of our national heritage that I truly enjoyed!

[Oh Shoot]

Just a few hours before launch - dang GOP will probably cave in and make this misadventure legal :(

 

With the new polls out, they've caving as fast as they can.

 

- OS

[GlockSpock]

I didn't know this!  Off to look for it!

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/

 

Sidenote: Has nothing to do with the newer TV series.

[ttocswob]

MacGyver and Oh Shoot: Too bad it's not in my plans, but a little "caving" might be appropriate!

[MacGyver]

As long as we're talking rivers through National Parks, I love Big South Fork, too.  Going from Leatherwood Ford past Station Camp to Blue Heron may be one of the prettiest river trips in the Southeast.  As long as they've got water, that's 26 miles of easy paddling and totally under pressured fishing.

[ttocswob]

Just spoke with a 'knowledgable source' who says BSF rangers are doing just enough to say it's closed. Not aware of patrols, citations, or arrests.

 

I've only seen "closed" signs, sawhorse barricades and ribbon. Bathrooms are locked, but no shortage of trees.

 

Only a couple hours more...

[ttocswob]

...and I'm soooooo tempted to take my banjo.

[Guest Keal G Seo]

My question, since they closed the parks and people started cancelling vacations to the area, is who is going to be there to keep you out? lol

[ttocswob]

Answer: no one!

 

About what I expected, too. Went overnight sans backcountry permit, built a campfire and everything. Never saw a soul until I reached the takeout this afternoon.

 

NPS had one laminated paper "closed" sign, and some red ribbon which was already cut. No signage whatsoever at the entry point.

 

Did catch a few small fry.

 

After 6 miles of water and rocks (mostly the latter) I'm ready for bed.

[MacGyver]

Yeah, it can be pretty low this time of year. We were looking at it earlier last month and called the rangers about water levels. His reply was, "oh yeah, you can totally do a canoe trip. How far are you wanting to carry them?"

That's what pushed us to the Green river instead. Being between two dams not too far outside the national park boundaries, it was about 100 feet wide, about 10 feet deep, and you didn't really even have to paddle unless you just felt like it.

[ttocswob]

PS - my little excursion (or is that incursion?) did make the cut at Sipsey.

 

 

Held up on this post as I was entertaining thoughts of tossing a pickup truck load of barricades over the nearest bridge. That is, if the "shutdown" continued - doesn't matter now.