Thank you for posting this. It seems that we all have to have some type of plan to survive out there these days. I'm a retired male BLM employee and remember .when we first began to get lot',s of female field employees in the late 70's and how my older bosses reacted to the sudden infusion. Like many of the newer BLM "ologists" hired to implement a whole bunch of new laws that seemed to flood the BLM at the time and were upsetting how things were done, I was used to working with women and even having them for bosses. In my outfit the only women until then were clerks who were required to wear dresses. And here came a whole bunch of them!
Working in the field whether male or female meant following certain protocols like trying to avoid bad situations in the first place (situational analysis) and if you could not the customer was always right . We always tried to work in teams but there many situations were we worked alone. In both of my last two Districts all new employees were sort of mentored in field techniques before they were turned loose . In both Districts, management sort of suggested to our new female employees (and some males too) that since there were so many unknowns out there and so many dead zones with no radio reception that they should go get a good field dog. A good dog whether the danger was a animal or human , could give those seconds you need to climb a tree or get out of danger or by just by being there could keep a situation from happening. I have always had a field dog in both work and play although from what I hear today some political hack made a determination that only rescue and law enforcement now could have dogs.
So, as suggested by many in this thread, (1) avoidance is the best way out of trouble, and (2),if you can't talk your way out, (3) have a dog, (4) wasp spray instead of my usual bear spay (maybe a can of both?) and if they still try to break in your pop-ups door, and despite the problems they present-a good ax or sometimes- gun! I realize that not being a women I will never the additional problems that means that could destroy a trip to the woods. Most people that go to the woods, that I know, whether male or female , do know what they are doing: it is unfortunate that there are more and more of those who don't know and don't care are finding their way into out play places and we have to be prepared for them.
Smoke
Edited by Smokecreek1, 27 July 2020 - 07:07 PM.
