Define backcountry

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Dictionary.com: noun
a sparsely populated rural region remote from a settled area.

Me: a area not easily accessible and very remote, takes a whole day to walk into it and contains limited or no human presence.

Youtube: anything greater than 30' from truck.

Does anyone else think term is over used in todays hunting world?

 

[Nick87]

Dictionary.com: noun
a sparsely populated rural region remote from a settled area.

Me: a area not easily accessible and very remote, takes a whole day to walk into it and contains limited or no human presence.

Youtube: anything greater than 30' from truck.

Does anyone else think term is over used in todays hunting world?

Yes

 

[MTLabrador]

Way overused. Badass extreme backcountry BOWhunting especially.

 

[RobertD]

Backcountry whitetails on my uncles ranch!! Way out here a whole thirty minutes from town!

 

[Duck-Slayer]

Yes way over used, most of the youtuber’s are using that term all the time!
Matt

 

[Nick87]

The list of overused terms goes on and on

 

[JLS]

Keep hammering.

 

[Nick87]

Keep hammering.

Edit- nevermind I don't want to derail this gentlemans thread, not yet anyhow.

 

[gouch]

I never thought about what a definition of backcountry might be. Probably somewhere back in the woods where I won't likely run into any people. I can walk all day into a wilderness area around here and almost guaranty I'll have to talk to someone unless I hide off the trail as they pass by. Then there are any number of places I could walk a half mile off the road and spend the rest of the year there and not see another living soul.

 

[Nameless Range]

Yes. I’ve mused on this before, so here’s a copy and paste of that thought from a couple years ago:


What takes undifferentiated chunks of earth and makes them places are names and value – both of which emanate from history. The world of toponyms is a deep one, but above and aside those specific place names on the map are those words we use for landscapes that categorize them. Before it was an absolutely terrible country song I often thought about the term “God’s Country”. It’s a classification that tells you as much about the feelings of the person saying it as it does the country itself.

“Backcountry” is another one of these sorts of unofficial categorical designations. It’s a frequently used closed-form compound word, and it, like God’s Country, says both something about the person saying it as well as the country itself. Which brings me to a word for chunks of earth I have been thinking about lately: “Frontcountry”. It’s first root is the antonym of backcountry’s, but the former is no antonym of the latter. It’s a newish word in the lexicon of land management, and like the others, says something about the mind using it as well as the place it is referencing.

Just as one could say backcountry is a loaded term, often with an agenda, I would say the same for frontcountry, but maybe even more. Whether backcountry or frontcountry are states of mind is a discussion for another day, but when either of those terms is used for terra firma and a proposal of how we should feel about it and steward it, I think it is worth remembering that you and I are not obligated to agree.

 

[JLS]

Way overused. Badass extreme backcountry BOWhunting especially.

Extreme is not for pansies. Go big or go home.

 

[Stocker]

Absolutely over used. A buddy told me he was going on a back country mule deer hunt. It was in the sage flats……

Back country to me is hiking 8+ miles in and being surrounded by absolutely no one and nothing.

 

[Stocker]

Extreme is not for pansies. Go big or go home.

Core yeah bro! #corelife

 

[Hem]

Remote country with no cell service.
Every year we lose more.

 

[MTLabrador]

Extreme is not for pansies. Go big or go home.

I can claim to be extreme. @DouglasR bestowed a #coreaf upon my elk last year.

 

[Hem]

Remote country with no cell service.
Every year we lose more.

But then get on the highest point around and bars appear.
Sad.

 

[hank4elk]

Remote country with no cell service.
Every year we lose more.

Pie Town? LOL

 

[hank4elk]

I have been in the most remote regions of the Sierra High country and had folks walk through camp. Many years ago.

I can not see or hear anyone for days. Here. I can surely find no one off any number of the dirt paths we call roads. I can count on my hands the days I have actually ran into other hunters , and I don't go that far any more.
But there are jets overhead and I found another effing balloon today. Sorry for my foul language...

 

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[Redmt]

We are officially called the Backcountry by the county. There's about 50-60 full time residents in 150 sq. miles. You can see 2 of my 3 closest neighbors