Book and Journal of Mattanaw

# Camping

Book and Journal of Mattanaw
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Publisher: PlaynText, Tempe, Arizona

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## Author

The Author and Editor-in-Chief, by his enterprise client’s headquarters in San Diego, California

Artist/Author: The Honorable Dr.9 Mattanaw, Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh, Retired

Interdisciplinarian with Immeasurable Intelligence. Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.6

- Masters Business & Economics, Harvard University (In Progress)
- Attorney, Pro Se, Litigation, Trial, Depositions, Contracts (E.g. State of Alaska v. Pugh, et. al., Alaska Superior and Supreme Courts)4
- B.S. Psychology, University of Maryland, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude1
- B.S. Computer & Information Science, University of Maryland, 3.91, Magna Cum Laude2
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Maryland.3
- G.E.D., State of Maryland, Montgomery County, 1999.
- Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community, Mensa Lifetime Member

Former Chief Architect, Adobe Systems

Current President/Advisor, Social Architects and Economists International.

CEO PlaynText | CEO PlainText

Contact:

- cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu
- christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org
- mattanaw@mattanaw.org

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- Professional Resumé

## Edit History

- Saturday, September 24th, 2022, at 2:21 PM Arizona Time

## Contents

- Author
- Introduction
- Finding places to camp where there is no risk of being hassled

## Introduction

For a long time I’ve been interested in camping, camping gear, and living off grid with minimal resources. However, historically, I’ve had more gear than I’ve had experience actually using it. I am an experienced camper in that I know precisely what to do, and have camped many times in the past, but what I’ve done much less of is use my equipment well, over many days, in backcountry. This is what I’m wanting to do more of an here I’m sharing my experiences getting more masterful as a backpacker in remote territories.

Camping relates to many other interests I have, like:

- Living frugally,
- Resolving homelessness,
- Understanding homelessness,
- City and country planning relating to comfort of travelers.
- Travel with less planning.
- Landownership (I’m a landowner in Alaska, with trespasser and trail use concerns).

Here I will blend some of what I learn about becoming really comfortable the backcountry with how it relates to these verious other topics.

## Finding appropriate locations to camp where there is no risk of being hassled

An issue with camping is even if you are well off, and appear well off, you may be quickly categorized alongwith homeless or vagrants who may have problems. Being a camper, or a backpacking enthusiast, of course does not imply such a thing, and even the rich and famous enjoy being adventurers around the globe. We shop at expensive outfitting stores and overpay for gear, to discover, that we may be treated, not like anyone else, but as people who may seem more akin to criminals than tourists with money and prestige. Not wanting to be lumped even alongwith people who are unsightly, dirty, or unkempt, or the homeless with personal issues even if they have nothing to do with laws, I’ve taken efforts to ensure my appearance is not only one of a backpacker, but one who spends on luxury goods (which I do anyway). I am also taking efforts to ensure that the locations where I camp are

1. Allowed according to applicable laws, wich are hard to discover sometimes, AND
2. In areas unlikely to have passers who would see me.

The idea here is to then avoid hassle by being unseen, and by being within the to contol any situation that might emerge from being seen, by someone who might complain, investigate, or otherwise cause issue resulting in having to avoid any question about legality.

> Another major objective I have is to have the most minimal possible plan regarding planning, so that as I travel around, I hardly have to think about whether there is any issue with my trip. This is an attempt to plan to not have to plan, or to plan to a minimal degree, mitigating all reasonable risks.

[More to come]

Mattanaw I., formerly "Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh"

I am a retired executive, software architect, and consultant, with professional/academic experience in the fields of Moral Philosophy and Ethics, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and more recently, Economics. I am a Pandisciplinarian, and Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.

Articles on this site are eclectic, and draw from content prepared between 1980 and 2024. Topics touch on all of life's categories, and blend them with logical rationality and my own particular system of ethics. The common theme connecting all articles is moral philosophy, even if that is not immediately apparent. Any of my articles that touch on "the good and virtuous life" will be published here. These articles interrelate with my incipient theory of ethics, two decades in preparation. This Book and Journal is the gradual unfolding of that ethic, and my living autobiography, in a collection of individual books that fit into groups of book collections.

This Book and Journal is already one of the largest private websites and writings ever prepared, at nearly 1 million words, greater than 50,000 images and videos, and nearly one terabyte of space utilized. The entire software architecture is of my creation. Issues of the book for sale can be found under featured. These texts are handmade by myself, and are of excellent quality, and constitute the normal issues of my journal that can also be subscribed to. The entire work is a transparent work in progress. Not all is complete, and it will remain in an incomplete state until death.

I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback and conversation with readers. You can reach me at mattanaw@mattanaw.com (site related), cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu (academic related), or christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org (intelligence related), or via the other social media channels listed at the bottom of the site.

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