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[Brendone]

Originally Posted by 81MC

Etiquette is dead. Went to a beautiful mountain park early in the morning, it was nice until we returned from the brief walk and it’s overrun with idiots. party speaker bull#### music. Bear bins unlatched, and some mother####er lurking two feet beside our table waiting for us to depart. Nowhere is nice anymore, fuxking always overrun with #######s and their hoards of dumbasses.

Sounds just like Cascade Ponds at Banff. “Let’s go have a picnic with 50 of our closest friends and all our crap and music.”

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Brendone

Sounds just like Cascade Ponds at Banff. “Let’s go have a picnic with 50 of our closest friends and all our crap and music.”

I don't understand why people can't do things without music anymore. I definitely don't need music or a podcast everywhere I go but it seems like most people can't live without something being piped into their brains. At the office, bike path, park, airport, beach, golf course, etc I just don't get it.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I don't understand why people can't do things without music anymore. I definitely don't need music or a podcast everywhere I go but it seems like most people can't live without something being piped into their brains. At the office, bike path, park, airport, beach, golf course, etc I just don't get it.

Life is an endless sequence of misery that we're trying to take our minds off of.

[Engine09]

Originally Posted by 81MC

Etiquette is dead. Went to a beautiful mountain park early in the morning, it was nice until we returned from the brief walk and it’s overrun with idiots. party speaker bull#### music. Bear bins unlatched, and some mother####er lurking two feet beside our table waiting for us to depart. Nowhere is nice anymore, fuxking always overrun with #######s and their hoards of dumbasses.

That's why I started going further and further into the mountains to get away from people, last summer I hiked 52 km total carrying a 45 lb bag. Exhausting but you only run into a half dozen people, they're nice as hell and very quiet.

[habernac]

I hate it hiking, but the place I’m really surprised that allows it is golf courses. Don’t they want quiet there? They invented ear buds for a reason. No one else wants to hear your ####.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Locke

I cant speak to this too much as I dont do 'homeless cosplay in the woods' very often anymore, but in a lot of ways I agree.

I dont know if it was a year off from society or what, but we as people having been regularly seemingly to feel entitled to treat each other like crap.

I actively make sure not to. Maintain manners. Be polite. Be patient.

But that doesnt go everyone and even my patience has limits.

I think the year off from society brought so many more people to the outdoors that it overwhelmed the ability to integrate people slowly so a lot of the cultural norms of the parks were overwhelmed.

You are still allowed to throw people’s Bluetooth speakers in lakes though if they are using them. It’s in the park rules.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Engine09

That's why I started going further and further into the mountains to get away from people, last summer I hiked 52 km total carrying a 45 lb bag. Exhausting but you only run into a half dozen people, they're nice as hell and very quiet.

Me too,

Random wilderness camping is pretty much all the backcountry I do any more. The ultra running crowd really changed the back country a lot. Not necessarily in a bad way but it just adds traffic.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by GGG

I think the year off from society brought so many more people to the outdoors that it overwhelmed the ability to integrate people slowly so a lot of the cultural norms of the parks were overwhelmed.

You are still allowed to throw people’s Bluetooth speakers in lakes though if they are using them. It’s in the park rules.

I would laugh like hell if it was. Like...crudely etched onto the 'Park Rules' sign.

"What can you do? Its right there. They are legally allowed to launch your speakers into the Lake."

[Wormius]

I read “homeless cosplay” and I don’t even need to see who posted it to immediately recognize the poster.

[topfiverecords]

The park needs more bears not less.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by habernac

I hate it hiking, but the place I’m really surprised that allows it is golf courses. Don’t they want quiet there? They invented ear buds for a reason. No one else wants to hear your ####.

Rates have gotten so high that if you’re a public or semi private course they rarely do anything about disruptive people. Can’t hurt the cash cow.

[puffnstuff]

GMG that I bought a new pressure washer 4 months ago and I havent used it yet.

[Engine09]

Originally Posted by GGG

Me too,

Random wilderness camping is pretty much all the backcountry I do any more. The ultra running crowd really changed the back country a lot. Not necessarily in a bad way but it just adds traffic.

True, I have seen more runners recently, but at least they're out of the way quickly and don't carry bluetooth speakers.

Last summer I did a brutal 21 km hike one way through a really overgrown and wet trail way up north on an old voyageur route, once at the river I spent an entire day sitting and watching bears in the distance and all the animals coming to to river. Pretty damn peaceful, didn't see a single person for 3 entire days.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

GMG that I bought a new pressure washer 4 months ago and I havent used it yet.

Hahaha I'm in the exact same boat.

Oh this is a great price, always wanted one. So many uses!

....used it once since I bought it last year.

[Superflyer]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I don't understand why people can't do things without music anymore. I definitely don't need music or a podcast everywhere I go but it seems like most people can't live without something being piped into their brains. At the office, bike path, park, airport, beach, golf course, etc I just don't get it.

Jeez, a few weeks ago we were out getting Chinese food and there was a family a few tables over. Both kids had their ipads out with headphones on and the father was sitting there with headphones on as well and seemed to be listening to music as he would bob his head every now and then. The mother was just sitting there looking bored out of her mind.
I could not understand how they could go out to dinner and just sit there not interacting with each other at all.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

Jeez, a few weeks ago we were out getting Chinese food and there was a family a few tables over. Both kids had their ipads out with headphones on and the father was sitting there with headphones on as well and seemed to be listening to music as he would bob his head every now and then. The mother was just sitting there looking bored out of her mind.
I could not understand how they could go out to dinner and just sit there not interacting with each other at all.

We are going to hit a point where all human interaction is binary aren't we?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

We are going to hit a point where all human interaction is binary aren't we?

Yes...or no.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

GMG that I bought a new pressure washer 4 months ago and I havent used it yet.

Originally Posted by Looch City

Hahaha I'm in the exact same boat.

Oh this is a great price, always wanted one. So many uses!

....used it once since I bought it last year.

The best pressure washers are a friends presser washer.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I don't understand why people can't do things without music anymore. I definitely don't need music or a podcast everywhere I go but it seems like most people can't live without something being piped into their brains. At the office, bike path, park, airport, beach, golf course, etc I just don't get it.

When I was younger I would listen to music constantly, anytime I left the house. These days. I kinda of enjoy having nothing in my ear.

[CliffFletcher]

It’s not just hiking. Way more people play music from speakers while they’re riding their bikes. Often in a group of 3-4 people riding around blasting music with grins on their faces, seemingly oblivious to the contempt everyone else nearby has for them.