Question: "Hand Carried" Term Options

[swizz]

This is probably a dumb question but..... if I have a backpack full of "prospecting equipment" it IS considered "Hand Carried", correct?
No wheels, no skis, no pack animal (except for my pony-sized dog), right? (just guessing)
There's probably a legal clarification of the term here somewhere that I haven't stumbled across yet.

[russau]

these employees of ours (FS,BLM) are bound to do their jobs according to the rules,guidelines in these books. if they venture out of these guidelines and influx their beleifs/wants/wacoenviromental stuff, then they have violated that departments giudelines and therfore have moved themselves outside the umbrella of legal protection for that agency. now they cant use our $$$ for their defense from their agencys lawyers. know what your doing and what the law says,as applied to you activitys. and have a witness to your and others actions/comments. if you have a confortation with any gubermint agency employee. get all the facts/names/phone numbers and write them down as soon as possible so you wont forget them. youll need them IF you have to defend yourself in court. lots of greenies were hired during the slick willy addministration through the then sec. of the interior ole babbleing bruce babbit.and thats when our troubles started! they like to slant their veiws on us and they try to make it sound official. but they dont know the law! and some of us(including me) dont know enough of it!