camping

I haven't been tent camping in over ten years. When I did go camping, it was in Minnesota State Parks.  Park rangers enforced the rules and no campers were allowed to get drunk and party late and loud with boom boxes. Families are out there camping. Drunk boom box dancing keeps kids awake.

But there are a lot of federal campsites in northern Minnesota, like up in the Boundary Waters, endless miles of nature with no rangers. Drunken louts who, apparently, love nature  and boozing camp here. If you are unfortunate enough to get stuck next such a party, you are shit out of luck. The people who behave these way seemed very aware that there was nothing other campers could do. What? Were you going to get up and stuff your kids in a car and go driving looking, probably futilely, for a ranger to shut the party down?

But there is one thing you can do.  You can get up about five a.m. and make noise.