Vandweller interactions with the UTV community I try to…
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Vandweller interactions with the UTV community
I try to avoid generalizing groups of people but I’m getting to the point where I’ll avoid as much as possible staying in or near public land areas popular with UTVs. Most of my and my husband’s interactions with these fellow recreation enthusiasts have been negative, encountering entitled attitudes and even downright hostility.
Two years ago my husband took our econoline and Trail 90 motor bike to a recreation area outside of Billings MT to camp and go on some rides. On the first day there he passed a large group of UTVs going fast in the opposite direction and one was clearly not paying attention and veered towards him, running him off the side of the road. He passed out briefly and a couple of women in the group came down to check on him. He came to and said “you ran me off the road lady.” The lady who did quietly said “yes I’m sorry I guess I wasn’t paying attention,” and then was cut off by the other woman who told her not to admit fault and that he was going too fast (this old bike tops out at 30mps on dirt roads so that’s bullshit, they were going much faster). She said it was probably just dislocated, gave him some ibuprofen and dropped him and his bike back to the van and hightailed it out of there. He was solo on this trip and had to drive himself back to Billings over an hour and a half away, most of that bumpy dirt roads and enduring great pain at every bump. When he finally made it to the emergency room the doctor confirmed it was broken and might even require surgery. I was so infuriated and stunned that anyone could just leave him like that.
This past weekend we were visiting some national monuments around Arizona and camped on some nearby forest service land off of a FS road where dispersed camping is permitted, though we were not near any other campers that night. Some UTV creeps snuck up and knocked on our van as a sick joke around 9:30pm. Our large dog went crazy barking and they sped off. Hopping out of bed and looking out realizing it was a UTV and not some kind of law enforcement, we started to follow them for a while since they had those goofy neon lights on their antennas so you could see them in the dark but there was no way the econoline could keep up with them on the dirt road. In hindsight probably kinda silly to pursue confrontation but my partner and I were pretty pissed and just dying to know what exactly they wanted, perhaps just to get a rise out of us and I guess they did, but they weren’t going to scare us off. We returned to the spot and had a peaceful rest of the night. But WTF who does that!!?? Just curious if anyone else has had issues with this community while sharing our public lands.
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I try to avoid generalizing groups of people but I’m getting to the point where I’ll avoid as much as possible staying in or near public land areas popular with UTVs. Most of my and my husband’s interactions with these fellow recreation enthusiasts have been negative, encountering entitled attitudes and even downright hostility.
Two years ago my husband took our econoline and Trail 90 motor bike to a recreation area outside of Billings MT to camp and go on some rides. On the first day there he passed a large group of UTVs going fast in the opposite direction and one was clearly not paying attention and veered towards him, running him off the side of the road. He passed out briefly and a couple of women in the group came down to check on him. He came to and said “you ran me off the road lady.” The lady who did quietly said “yes I’m sorry I guess I wasn’t paying attention,” and then was cut off by the other woman who told her not to admit fault and that he was going too fast (this old bike tops out at 30mps on dirt roads so that’s bullshit, they were going much faster). She said it was probably just dislocated, gave him some ibuprofen and dropped him and his bike back to the van and hightailed it out of there. He was solo on this trip and had to drive himself back to Billings over an hour and a half away, most of that bumpy dirt roads and enduring great pain at every bump. When he finally made it to the emergency room the doctor confirmed it was broken and might even require surgery. I was so infuriated and stunned that anyone could just leave him like that.
This past weekend we were visiting some national monuments around Arizona and camped on some nearby forest service land off of a FS road where dispersed camping is permitted, though we were not near any other campers that night. Some UTV creeps snuck up and knocked on our van as a sick joke around 9:30pm. Our large dog went crazy barking and they sped off. Hopping out of bed and looking out realizing it was a UTV and not some kind of law enforcement, we started to follow them for a while since they had those goofy neon lights on their antennas so you could see them in the dark but there was no way the econoline could keep up with them on the dirt road. In hindsight probably kinda silly to pursue confrontation but my partner and I were pretty pissed and just dying to know what exactly they wanted, perhaps just to get a rise out of us and I guess they did, but they weren’t going to scare us off. We returned to the spot and had a peaceful rest of the night. But WTF who does that!!?? Just curious if anyone else has had issues with this community while sharing our public lands.
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