valkyrie182
09-26-2004, 15:07
When I am out and about, camping, climbing, or backpacking, I try to be as considerate as possible about making too much noise or leaving a mess behind. I try to practice as much of the "Leave No Trace" motto as I can without getting too ridiculous about it. Naturally, it makes me quite angry when I am out hiking and I come across a heap of trash along the side of the trail. Usually the contents are predictable(not that I rummage through it), the leftover beer cans, food, and condom wrappers from someone's good time a few days ago.
How much extra effort would it have taken to get a plastic bag and put your own trash in it? They obviously went through the trouble of lugging a case of beer with them on the trail, why not take it out once it is quite a bit lighter? It is one of those things that really aggravates me. The best was when I stumbled across a group of those bleeding heart liberal pascifist anti-everything hippies in the woods, who had perhaps the biggest mess surrounding them I had seen since the previous weeks round of frat parties. Save the planet, but leave your trash everywhere and never bathe. Am I the only one that gets ticked off when idiots leave their mess strewn about the woods for everyone else to see?
How much extra effort would it have taken to get a plastic bag and put your own trash in it? They obviously went through the trouble of lugging a case of beer with them on the trail, why not take it out once it is quite a bit lighter? It is one of those things that really aggravates me. The best was when I stumbled across a group of those bleeding heart liberal pascifist anti-everything hippies in the woods, who had perhaps the biggest mess surrounding them I had seen since the previous weeks round of frat parties. Save the planet, but leave your trash everywhere and never bathe. Am I the only one that gets ticked off when idiots leave their mess strewn about the woods for everyone else to see?