Roamers

[Pirate]

Hiker traverses Keystone XL path, isn't shot

“Going for a long walk on the plains is impossible unless you are an owner of a large piece of property or if you have obliging property-owning neighbors. Barbed-wire fences, no trespassing signs, legal impediments and a general feeling of unwelcomeness, not to mention the fear of getting shot, make travel over huge swaths of the country — and by no means just the Great Plains — difficult, illegal and practically impossible,” he wrote. “In America, the so-called freest country on Earth, no one really has the right to roam. To walk across wild America, except in national parks and on government-approved trails, you have no choice but to trespass.”

Some European countries, such as Germany and Sweden, have enshrined a right to roam across the countryside and forbid property owners from excluding people from land (and also protect property owners from lawsuits).

 

[MF283]

Brave & lucky!

 

[k0ua]

People are free to walk along highways and roads all they like and to walk across public lands. They are not free to trespass on private land. I don't like trespassers on my property, and often ask them to leave.

 

[Scrambler82]

The problem is that a lot of there roamers are not just roaming, they are checking you out to see what will happen and then, you are missing things !
Since VietNam I have grown more distrustful of people, except for my close friends, but as said in an old, old movie, "everyone has an angle" !

 

[EddieWalker]

I've known a few long distance bicycle riders who go for rides that last several days to well over a month. They told me that they spend the night along the side of the road wherever they decide to stop. Ideally, they look for a wooded area without any houses or buildings close by. They prefer a fence for privacy. There is no regard or concern for the owner of that land, they freely admit to trespassing to find a safe place to camp. What they leave behind on private property, like bodily waste and what they don't eat isn't their concern. I hope they don't litter, but in all honesty, I wouldn't doubt it if they buried what they didn't want to carry with them.

It makes me want to build bigger, and stronger fences.

 

[turnkey4099]

I spent 6 years (2 tours) in Germany, walking trails every where. You could get maps for them. People really use them over there and they do seem to cross private land. I did a lot of hiking those trails and I do not recall EVER seeing a piece of trash. Whole different social conscience in Europe.

 

[jack707]

Those days are long gone no more hobos riding freight trains either today.

 

[ultrarunner]

I spent 6 years (2 tours) in Germany, walking trails every where. You could get maps for them. People really use them over there and they do seem to cross private land. I did a lot of hiking those trails and I do not recall EVER seeing a piece of trash. Whole different social conscience in Europe.

It is changing greatly there...

For as long as people can remember mountain huts where available on the honor system to leave it better than you found them... now my farmer friends that own them are locking them up or simply removing them.

One distant relative had a picturesque water mill on his farm... date from the 1700's and his Grandfather used it until the day he died... well preserved and maintained and off the beaten path on private farm land...

Someone printed a map with pictures of this hidden Jewel and he was inundated with trespassers... the ones that were respectul were outnumbered by those that were not...

After a season of getting his crops trampled, campfires and trash he made the hard decision to completely remove and obliterate the mill that had been in his family for over 250 years... it is totally gone including the mill pond and chute.

It simply was not worth the aggravation from those with little or no regard...

Europe today has changed greatly over the last 25 years... people lock things up, build fences, barricade mountain roads...