RE: Your worst encounter afield with a fellow " human"
I guess I should have included that... sorry for the omission. I did end up getting the boots back. The guy had already walked the boots back to his vehicle when I met up with him in the woods - after I left the woods early with freezing feet, I found his truck and waited there with my brothers until he walked out of the woods a good hour to hour and a half after dark. He stated " I didn' t know they were yours" ; I' d never even seen this guy before... so of course he wouldn' t know they were mine. The next words out of his mouth were " You shouldn' t leave your **** in the woods." Maybe so. My reply to him was that he shouldn' t be a thief.
I never got the tree stand back (different spot, different idiot), but I did get the valves out of his valve stems the following year. Could I argue he parked in my parking space, also on state land?