Re: [RC] Quiet Nights at camp/Generators - Mary Ann Spencer
I personally find the hum of the generator to hide
all the other noises in camp.. like trucks starting up, horses whineying..not
sure of that darn spelling, and of course those dogs. Not sure why one
would expect a campout full of horses to be some sort of quiet like if one was
back packing into a wilderness area. Dogs taken to rides should be
sleeping next to their owners or left at home-IMHO!
Gee in all the posts on this topic, we have heard
lots and lots about those darned noisy generators. Here we are trying to enjoy
the peace and serenity of the wilderness and somebody has to go
and ruin it with a putt putt gas engine .
But in my horse camping/endurance riding
experience, there is (WOOF WOOF!!) another type of noise pollution
(OWWWW!!! OW OW OWWWWWWW!!!) that has caused me to lose way more sleep than
all the freaking generators in ( ARF ARF ARF) all of (YAP YAP YAP!!
ARRROUUOOO) North America.
I like dogs. They have their place. Howling at
2:30 am at deer or armadillios stirring in the brush in not my favoritie
place or time to become aware of everybody who brought their dogs with
them. Especially since the good folks who brought their dogs don't have
them inside their own rigs, but have left them outside for the
audio entertainment of anybody within a mile or two. The owners may
plaintively call out " Shush Fluffy. Be quiet Killer." but they usually
give up and accept their hounds calls to the wild. Now if their beloved pooch
was indoors with them, and that insessant noise was bouncing off their inside
walls, they probably would take more affirmative action to shut that noise
off. Instead they just go back inside and leave Rover to continue the
chorus with all his/her friends singing harmony.
I would gladly accept a ride managers rule that
anyone who turns on their generator at 2:00 am should be flogged through a
gauntlet of sleep deprived endurance riders...., along with any owners
of outside dogs barking madly at boogers in the night. There have been several nights that I wouldn't have been
able to hear any generator running over the chaos of all the barking dogs.
