Sigarms
Super Member
One year I lived in Pa, I litterally spent every weekend either in West Virginia or anywhere between Watertown and Lake Placid NY, pretty much rotating the states each weekend paddling. I'll never forget one night going into a town for dinner instead of a campfire cookout, I litterally forgot which state I was in until I heard someone speak and I heard the dialect. Point being, no matter where you are in the "mountainous" US, there will always be scary looking places that pretty much look EXACTLY alike along a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.I canoed that stretch way back around 1978; I was 19 and didn't know any better. Man, they could've filmed Deliverance in that gorge...
The few times I ever got lost on a dirt road, honestly can't say I met a bad person who scared me (I'll admit, there have been some interesting looking places, that could be anywhere though LOL). Treat people with respect first, and generally you get the same in return.
Now that said, I didn't see Deliverance until about 40 years after it came out
End of the day, if you're caught tresspassing unbeknownst on your end, apologize profusely and sincerely, and leave. You were in the wrong.
Now, don't get me wrong, you still have to understand that there are the Jeffery Dahmers and Robert Pictons of the world, and you can come across them anywhere, in the woods or in the city
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