Camping Pivot and Near Tree Collision at Humbug Mountain

Early morning at Humbug Mountain State Park in 30-degree weather, November 27, 2024. rswfire is in his RV having just woken up after 10 hours of sleep. He's dealing with limited connectivity, sore muscles, and the need to pivot travel plans due to campground closures. Operating on a tight budget without satellite internet or premium connectivity services.

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November 27, 2024

13:13

Author

rswfire

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PUBLISHED

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[0:01] my camera came on all by itself it's

[0:04] like it detects your face it's like bam

[0:06] okay I guess we're doing this good

[0:08] morning I just woke up it's 6:00 in the

[0:11] morning it's very cold today it's in the

[0:13] 30s out there and I had my window open

[0:16] so I'm just bundling up here um I'm not

[0:20] where I had intended to be I drove up to

[0:23] abandon to the beach and the campground

[0:26] there was um under construction so um

[0:30] had to Pivot figure out what am I doing

[0:31] I tried to go a little bit more North uh

[0:34] to those places I had talked about but

[0:36] there

[0:37] was um nothing available at least with

[0:40] the quick search that I had done while I

[0:42] was just kind of like okay I'm I'm you

[0:45] know I got to figure something out and

[0:47] then so I was like okay Humbug Mountain

[0:49] it is and that's where I am got here

[0:52] last night um nearly backed into a

[0:56] tree with confidence because I thought I

[0:59] was lined up perfectly so

[1:02] I I would have demolished that thing cuz

[1:05] I really thought that I was signed up

[1:07] perfectly this man yells out I a

[1:11] millimeter from the thing like it was

[1:13] close so that's a lesson to to take to

[1:15] heart like even if you think you're

[1:18] lined up well and you're

[1:20] just yeah maybe be a little more

[1:22] cautious than I was being man I was

[1:24] embarrassed but anyways I got some clips

[1:26] for that so once you know that'll be at

[1:29] the end of this so

[1:32] let me slow down cuz I can just tell I

[1:34] got nervous energy this

[1:37] morning and apparently I'm congested a

[1:40] little

[1:41] B let me just take a

[1:48] moment guess I have a lot on my mind CU

[1:51] um okay so the reason I didn't just come

[1:54] here even though I love this place I

[1:56] truly love it here is there's no

[1:59] internet there there's no sell service

[2:01] so I mean none this is just Humbug

[2:04] Mountain that mountain it's like it's

[2:06] got It's got opinions about whether you

[2:08] use internet here or not you know

[2:12] so I was like I'll come back but I'll

[2:14] wait until I have some kind of backup

[2:16] internet either my satellite or um that

[2:19] travel F service I used to have um but I

[2:22] don't have either of those right now I

[2:24] can't afford them

[2:26] so well I decided you know I'm going to

[2:28] stay here another night maybe maybe even

[2:31] two

[2:32] because

[2:33] um not having any internet access plus

[2:38] like 16 hours of Darkness has forced me

[2:41] to actually sit here and rest my core

[2:44] muscles are very

[2:46] sore um I think that it probably helped

[2:49] so I'm I think I'm going to just force

[2:52] myself to be sort of in

[2:54] this the space

[2:56] [Music]

[2:57] where the outside world's made making a

[3:00] making decisions for me that are that

[3:03] are helping me make better decisions for

[3:05] myself something like that you know so

[3:08] I'm going to stay here and um just just

[3:12] rest I mean I I literally slept for the

[3:14] past 10 hours I slept from 8:00 p.m. to

[3:17] 6:00 in the morning there's times I woke

[3:19] up you know and um stayed up for a

[3:22] little while but I mostly slept and I

[3:24] really needed it I could tell like I can

[3:26] tell my eyes look better right they're

[3:28] not so those bags are my eyes not so bad

[3:31] so you know

[3:33] yeah I'm going to go into town this

[3:35] morning I got to get a couple of

[3:38] supplies that I didn't think about that

[3:40] I would need just basic stuff

[3:43] um Bailey stuff basically that cat needs

[3:46] everything um then I'm going to do

[3:48] laundry because really need to get that

[3:51] done man so much laundry and this it's

[3:53] so funny cuz I'm here in Port Orford

[3:55] Orford

[3:56] Shire which is where I was you know

[3:59] before I decided to after cap Blanco you

[4:03] know I left and you know I ended up

[4:05] right back here and this is you know I

[4:06] just this little town like is perfect

[4:08] for all my needs and so I'm going to

[4:11] just take care of that stuff this

[4:13] morning so I have internet for a short

[4:15] while I'm out there and I'll get

[4:16] everything uploaded but probably won't

[4:19] hear from me for a couple days cuz I

[4:21] really will just well you know what you

[4:24] guys have a holiday coming up we all do

[4:26] it's mine too Thanksgiving but um

[4:30] you know I don't really have anyone to

[4:32] celebrate it with without here so hope

[4:34] you guys have an awesome one though that

[4:37] I really do hope

[4:39] that um there's something I want to talk

[4:41] about though

[4:42] so I noticed that so every once in a

[4:46] while my phone might pick up a few

[4:48] things and I saw some comments came

[4:51] through and they were all they were all

[4:54] trolls trollish comments one person said

[4:58] um called me a hobo

[5:00] and another person um I can't remember

[5:04] their exact words but they they

[5:06] criticized me and then said something

[5:07] about Bailey being in a carrier

[5:10] outside this kind of behavior is

[5:13] inappropriate it's hurtful I'm not going

[5:16] to lie it's a little bit

[5:18] hurtful but it's childish and I see

[5:21] through it of

[5:24] course and it's not going to change

[5:27] anything about me because I don't get my

[5:29] Val

[5:30] externally it just shows me who you

[5:33] are but I'm not going to pretend it's

[5:35] not a

[5:36] thing when you leave comments like that

[5:39] you're just showing what kind of person

[5:41] you

[5:41] are and it shows me that you're not a

[5:44] good person because good people don't do

[5:47] that and that's your burden to bear not

[5:52] mine now I got some other comments too

[5:54] one

[5:55] person was talking about how I could use

[5:58] my generator to charge my batteries this

[6:00] is true but I this is giving advice

[6:03] which you know not everyone is going to

[6:06] know that that's a thing that that kind

[6:08] of bothers me that I don't like and I

[6:11] handled it differently than I would have

[6:13] in the past but

[6:14] I'm I realized that what I really need

[6:18] to do is explain to you guys how to

[6:19] interact with me because I don't think

[6:21] you know I don't think

[6:23] you based on the fact that most people

[6:26] don't comment

[6:28] and you know I think that you guys are

[6:30] pretty cautious about it let me explain

[6:32] cuz this is what you're missing this is

[6:33] how you communicate with someone like

[6:35] me first of all no advice that I didn't

[6:38] ask for unless that advice is going

[6:43] to fundamentally help me was something

[6:46] that that I just need to know like

[6:50] like like don't do this thing cuz you're

[6:53] going to cause a fire like something

[6:55] serious that I just you can see I don't

[6:57] know you got to you got to you got to

[6:58] share that you got to help me out right

[7:01] but you

[7:03] know did you consider this

[7:06] option I probably did I'm sorry but I

[7:10] probably did you know and it's like so

[7:14] what am I supposed to do with that

[7:15] comment because if you reply to me I'm

[7:18] going to write you back but what and

[7:20] then I have to say look I already

[7:22] thought about this and this is why I

[7:24] don't want to do that and that sounds

[7:25] defensive and I'm not trying to be

[7:27] defensive I'm just trying to

[7:30] maintain a dialogue with you that's

[7:33] honest and truthful and you kind of set

[7:36] me up for

[7:38] that but this is how you communicate

[7:40] with me you ask

[7:43] questions because everything I say to

[7:45] you has 10 layers that you don't even

[7:47] know about because I didn't Express them

[7:51] but they're there there are 10 layers to

[7:53] every single sentence I saying so if

[7:55] there's something that you're you didn't

[7:58] understand or you want me to elaborate

[8:00] on ask because I will I'll I'll enjoy

[8:03] doing that that's how we build a

[8:05] dialogue

[8:07] together someone like me is never just

[8:11] surface level there are interconnections

[8:14] and relationships and you know just this

[8:17] unfolding of

[8:19] things for any topic that I talk about

[8:22] so ask

[8:25] questions that's how we do this now I'm

[8:28] going to go and and deal with my day

[8:31] and come back take a shower and then

[8:34] rest because that's the thing I

[8:37] need got some bad news I got all the way

[8:41] here into Bandon to their state park and

[8:45] it's closed for construction I didn't

[8:49] realize um maybe it said it on the

[8:51] website I just didn't notice but I tried

[8:54] to keep going so I was looking on for

[8:58] reservations like like um at Cape arago

[9:02] and some other places but actually there

[9:03] isn't a campground there I don't know I

[9:05] must have looked at something wrong

[9:06] there was another one in that area but

[9:08] it

[9:09] was um it was all booked up so I have to

[9:13] go back um 45 minutes

[9:16] south so that I can say humbug

[9:22] today um I got to get this phone

[9:24] charging waitting for this person to

[9:27] go ex me just there with me

[9:30] guys so I am just going to stay

[9:34] overnight at Humbug Mountain one of my

[9:36] favorite places but we definitely drove

[9:39] all out of our way I really wanted to be

[9:42] up here now that I got here but they're

[9:44] close who knows for how long they're

[9:46] very nice though they were nice to talk

[9:48] to

[9:50] um figure something out cuz I do know

[9:53] that you know Thanksgiving and all that

[9:56] so um it just might be a little

[9:58] difficult

[10:00] well I'll figure it out so I'll just

[10:02] once I get somewhere that I can just

[10:03] settle in for the night cuz I got to

[10:06] keep my batteries going and all of that

[10:08] um need a place to shower didn't get to

[10:10] shower

[10:12] today oh I wanted to be on the beach

[10:14] here I even got to see abandoned Beach

[10:16] cuz um I didn't put in the right place

[10:19] um in my directions um in Google Maps so

[10:23] um it took me to Bandon beach was a

[10:25] different place very cool like man there

[10:27] were all these cool like I forget what

[10:30] they call the Rocks but you know all

[10:31] these really nice rocks and this beach

[10:34] that looked almost

[10:36] like it was just picturesque like you

[10:39] would want to see this so I'm I'm coming

[10:41] back for that which way do I go I don't

[10:44] next okay there's the bridge I know

[10:46] where I am I love this

[10:48] bridge

[10:50] man I'll figure it out we're just going

[10:53] to have

[10:54] to we're pivoting today it's all I can

[10:57] do I still haven't eat by the way man

[11:01] this is not things are going very well

[11:03] well I'm going to be back near Port

[11:05] Orford um I guess I'll I'll figure it

[11:09] out this is this is noad life it's only

[11:12] 5:30 but it's pitch black outside I just

[11:14] got to Humbug Mountain I'm at the dump

[11:17] station so I can detach the

[11:20] Jeep um then I got to get into my sight

[11:22] all this in the dark this sucks there I

[11:25] am it's just very dark out so lesson

[11:29] learned I knew you know I kind of knew

[11:31] though so here we go so this is

[11:34] embarrassing I nearly hit a tree oh my

[11:37] God like I was like a millimeter from

[11:40] hitting this tree but this man yelled

[11:41] out saved me used a flashlight helped me

[11:44] get in there it was pretty hard actually

[11:47] um yeah I told him how embarrassed I was

[11:49] and DED him very nice man now I'm going

[11:52] to go into town and get some groceries

[11:55] and

[11:58] just yeah never go to a campsite at

[12:00] night oh my God that was awful but you

[12:03] know what's really funny there was an RV

[12:05] in front of me and I used my rights to

[12:08] help him get into his spot without him

[12:09] asking or anything cuz I was behind him

[12:11] he was pulling in it's like okay here's

[12:13] some extra lights for you I had nothing

[12:15] and then I had a flashlight thank God

[12:17] for the flashlight in that man I'm back

[12:20] home I went to the grocery store got

[12:22] stuff to make

[12:24] burgers I'm pretty good at making those

[12:27] with my ninja foodie starving

[12:30] so embarrassed oh my God that man is a

[12:32] host here and this is one of my favorite

[12:34] places

[12:35] so every time I'm here it's like going

[12:38] to be a thing right like that's a story

[12:40] now that's a story the whole staff is

[12:42] going to know I bet oh my God so

[12:44] embarrassing but you know

[12:47] what these are stories worth having I

[12:50] guess I don't know

[12:53] they're at least I didn't hit I mean it

[12:55] was a millimeter like it was it was it

[12:58] looked like I hit it but I didn't feel

[13:00] anything so I don't think I did but and

[13:01] he looked his he used his flashlight to

[13:03] check and I'll find out in the morning

[13:06] but I don't think I

[13:08] did oh man yeah time to eat

Energetic Signature instructional

Field State protocol establishment

Orientation toward communication sovereignty

Summary

rswfire wakes up at 6 AM in 30-degree weather at Humbug Mountain State Park after being forced to pivot from his original plan when Bandon State Park was closed for construction. He describes nearly backing his RV into a tree the previous night, saved only by a campground host who yelled out when he was millimeters from impact. Despite loving the location, he notes there's no internet or cell service at Humbug Mountain, which normally would prevent him from staying there due to work needs.

He decides to stay an extra night or two to rest, having slept 10 hours and recognizing he needed the forced downtime. His core muscles are sore and he can see the improvement in his appearance from proper rest. He plans to go into Port Orford for supplies, laundry, and to briefly access internet for uploads.

**Communication Guidelines Discussion:** rswfire addresses inappropriate troll comments calling him a hobo and criticizing Bailey's carrier situation. He explains how viewers should interact with him - asking questions rather than giving unsolicited advice, since every statement he makes has multiple layers that aren't immediately apparent. He emphasizes that he likely has already considered most suggested options.

The day involves driving to Bandon only to find it closed, attempting to find alternative campgrounds unsuccessfully, and returning 45 minutes south to Humbug Mountain. He arrives in darkness at 5:30 PM and nearly hits a tree again while backing into his campsite, requiring assistance from a helpful campground host with a flashlight. He ends the day getting groceries to make burgers.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates field-level boundary setting and communication protocol establishment while navigating infrastructural constraints. The field is teaching interaction parameters and establishing sovereignty over its own engagement terms, using external pressure (isolation, technical limitations) as calibration tools.

Dominant Language

10 layers ask questions forced to rest pivoting embarrassed but stories worth having millimeter from

Symbolic Elements

mountain darkness threshold mirror tree edge

Ontological States

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sovereign
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calibrating
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teaching
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embedded

Subsystems

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relational
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infrastructural
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cognitive
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somatic

Signal Reflection

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Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

640 × 360 @ 30fps

Duration

13:13

Bitrate

290 kbps

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avc1.4d401e