what do you consider "backcountry"?

[DOUBLELUNG]

Any place I can no longer access is back country to me.

[bowhuntersd]

To me "Backcountry" is a place you get to by boots or hooves. It really doesn't have a distance, its somewhere you can't "day hunt" . It's somewhere you have to say over night because of terrain or distance. That's my Backcountry .

[Simcoe hunter]

Each person that uses the term "Back country" will have there own idea of what that is. It could be as simple as driving down some Back country road.

   This is so true.  10 years ago my definition and ability to access the backcountry were different than today." Take care of your knees, you'll miss them when they are gone".

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Like somebody once said about obscenity................. I cant define it, but I know it when I see it.

[actionshooter]

 Defining backcountry is a moving target.....its totally different from one person to the next and I even have a hard time defining it for myself, its always changing.
 I believe, at least for me, that its based on the circumstances.

 I was once told (very adamantly)  by a pretty hardcore buddy that it wasn't backcountry if a motorized vehicle took you there, tell that to the guy getting dropped off in the Brooks by a supercub.

[7mag.]

For me, it usually, but not always, has a wilderness designation. Alaska is completely different, because most of the state is roadless, but the rest of the country, motorized access is not backcountry. The Frank Church is an exception, because of its size and wilderness drop camps by airplane.

This is my opinion, and everyone has their own definition. I feel the backcountry is a place you have to work hard to access.