Originally Posted by
indyfabz
Zactly the point I made above. I know this from touring in a lot of places. It’s called situational awareness. For example, if I am the only person in a campground that’s not close to a public road and pitched in a site that you can’t even drive a car passed, I’m not going to bother even locking my bike.
The downside of that is if you'er asleep in your tent and your bike does get stolen by a hiker passing through, you have a loooooooong walk ahead of you...
This presupposes that said hiker would not have brought a bolt-cutters with him and so wouldn't be able to snip a cable lock. Whereas, the sound of him chopping it with his brush-axe would probably have woken you up.