2025-01-25, 09:22 AM
That's a really lousy story, Dazed. Sorry that happened to you. I've been mostly fortunate with leaving my truck in the backcountry, but I will admit it's always in the back of my mind hiking out from a multi-day backpacking trip in BFE "Geez, I hope my truck is still there and not messed with." I've considered a few ways to immobilize my truck, or to setup some game cameras around where I park in case someone does mess with it, but in the end I just roll the dice and let the Universe do its thing ...
Digonnet is who completely changed the Park for me. I'd explored DVNP before finding his book, relying on info from friends & the visitor center at first, and then eventually started looking things up on the web. But it was Digonnet who I felt had this infectious drive to explore and share the Park in a thoughtful and engaging manner. I've read many of his entries for places outside of DVNP that I'll never go to, just because I find it almost inspiring and educational to follow along with him vicariously.
I don't know how much of an impact his book had on visitation to the Park, especially the more remote gems as it takes a certain kind of person to want to hike miles up a gravel wash before you ever start the actual adventure. I'm primarily interested in the natural beauty of the Park, so if people want to pull up to old mining sites and steal stuff ... so it goes. That's been going on for decades, if not longer ... and on the flip side maybe it's a more conscientious world in some ways now. When I was a kid my grandfather used to take me arrowhead "hunting" in the Gerlach / Soldier Meadows zone of Northern Nevada, and that seemed totally normal 40+ years ago. And with my uncle who blazed trail for the US Forest Service we did all sorts of dipshit 4x4 and camping stuff that I'd be ashamed to do now, but was totally normal "back then."
Point being ... what was the question? Oh, yeah, I think the main takeaway is that absolutely sucks that you lost your dog-eared copy of Digonnet's book. I'd be absolutely pissed if I lost my copy that has years worth of personal notes in it. Hope your future trips to DVNP have a lot less human drama to them.
Digonnet is who completely changed the Park for me. I'd explored DVNP before finding his book, relying on info from friends & the visitor center at first, and then eventually started looking things up on the web. But it was Digonnet who I felt had this infectious drive to explore and share the Park in a thoughtful and engaging manner. I've read many of his entries for places outside of DVNP that I'll never go to, just because I find it almost inspiring and educational to follow along with him vicariously.
I don't know how much of an impact his book had on visitation to the Park, especially the more remote gems as it takes a certain kind of person to want to hike miles up a gravel wash before you ever start the actual adventure. I'm primarily interested in the natural beauty of the Park, so if people want to pull up to old mining sites and steal stuff ... so it goes. That's been going on for decades, if not longer ... and on the flip side maybe it's a more conscientious world in some ways now. When I was a kid my grandfather used to take me arrowhead "hunting" in the Gerlach / Soldier Meadows zone of Northern Nevada, and that seemed totally normal 40+ years ago. And with my uncle who blazed trail for the US Forest Service we did all sorts of dipshit 4x4 and camping stuff that I'd be ashamed to do now, but was totally normal "back then."
Point being ... what was the question? Oh, yeah, I think the main takeaway is that absolutely sucks that you lost your dog-eared copy of Digonnet's book. I'd be absolutely pissed if I lost my copy that has years worth of personal notes in it. Hope your future trips to DVNP have a lot less human drama to them.