What's the opinion of you gentlemen on playing exceptionally loud music at a remote family campground?
Had an interesting camping trip this past weekend, and I'm curious to know what you guys would have done in this situation.
Small site campground on a pristine lake above Capehorn. Our site was tucked way in the back completely separate from the others. Despite that, we had a nauseating and hideous music issue: a bunch of 20 yr old Canyon County hillbillies in the next site over 50 yards away had 2 speakers the size of mini-fridges in the back of a pickup, blaring country music far & wide, with the internal chest-pounding of the bass coming through loud and clear over the sounds of the near by stream. God bless the country music fan, I have no truck with them, but I don't think any kind of music should be audible more than 7-10 feet away from the wooden table that comes with the site. So I went over & politely asked if they could turn it down and they said, "Oh yeah, Bro, no problem." 30 minutes later it was right back the same. I went over again. "Oh yeah, sorry Bro. No problem." Same thing 30 minutes later. I finally rehearsed a soft-spoken diatribe about how self-centered it was to subject the entire campground to their choice of music, or any music for that matter, and would they like me to do the same to them. And I went over & delivered the speech very calmly. They were, for all appearances, accommodating and apologetic. This time the music was off for about 3 hours, and then started up again.
Well, I happen to have my own pretty decent car stereo system. So I positioned the open back hatch of the Xterra very strategically, dug out the Nine Inch Nails "Downward Spiral" CD, queued up track #6 (Ruiner) and FF'd the track to the peeling, raspy, face-melting, nad-shrinking, extreme hard core industrial-suicide-rock 51-second exploding nuclear guitar riff that begins at the 3 minute mark of the song. Then I set the CD player to re-loop that 51 second riff over and over. Yes, I was going to fry their damn country music right down into a little smoldering lump once and for all. I let fly with all 8 speakers and about 250 watts of power. Hundreds of birds left the surrounding trees en masse, the loud stream 10 feet away virtually disappeared, dust near the back of the Xterra began to billow, I could see via reflections on the windshield that it was vibrating dangerously. By the 3rd 51-second loop one of the hillbillies came over with a very ingratiating expression and holding forth an unopened can of Keystone Light and smiled and said, "Peace offering, Bro. We get it. You win. Won't happen again, I promise. Just please don't do that again." I accepted the offer, opened the can, and gave him a hit off my half-gallon of Jack Daniels. Damn punks didn't know who they were toying with.
If you're curious as to what they were subjected to click the link, let it load, then move the progress button to the 3 minute mark, crank it up, and hang on for 51 seconds. If you really want to experience their ordeal do it 3 times in succession and imagine it at approximately 140 db. You might vomit if you listen to the whole song, so I recommend you only queue up the 51 second riff at the 3 minute mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0KmhFSfesU
You guys ever run into this type of campground rudeness? What do you do?

Brian H.

Looking around on the web I ran into a Boy Scouts page with a great "Outdoor Code". I think it's a good place to start discussing what our "Idaho Outdoors" code should be.

http://www.usscouts.org/usscouts/advance/boyscout/outcode.asp

As an American, I will do my best to -

1. Be clean in my outdoor manners.
- I will treat the outdoors as a heritage.
- I will take care of it for myself and others
- I will keep my trash and garbage out of lakes, streams, fields, woods, and roadways.

2. Be careful with fire.
- I will prevent wildfire.
- I will build my fires only where they are appropriate.
- When I have finished using a fire, I will make sure it is cold out.
- I will leave a clean fire ring, or remove all evidence of my fire.

3. Be considerate in the outdoors.
- I will treat public and private property with respect.
- I will use low-impact methods of hiking and camping.

4. Be conservation minded
- I will learn how to practice good conservation of soil, waters, forests, minerals, grasslands, wildlife, and energy.
- I will urge others to do the same.

Sounds like BDH is as big an idiot as the people who offended him I love it when ButtHeads BUTT Buttheads. How would you like to be stuck in traffic with BDH sitting alongside you cranking out his Amps in his car then he complains when someone else does the same thing in a my woofer is bigger than your tweeter pissing match. Between campground idiots and boatramp idiots the oppurtunity to have a relaxing day is as endangered as a taxpayer. Im sure everybody in hearing range loved you BDH listen to yourself