>>67468how? how hypocritical, naive and greedy. it seems they are doing the exact opposite.
They are living to the ideals that they promote (not hypocritical).
They understand that fire can damage an area, and that they can make the difference by simply not having the fire (not naive)
They keep the area as good, or better than they found it, thus sharing the beauty of the land to others (not greedy).
Now if you're making the huge jump that, by me driving to my campsite in order to spend the weekend, but choosing not to light a fire, means that i should therefore not have driven (i use oil, gas, rubber, metal, and release dangerous chemicals). But, i also shouldn't bike (metals, rubbers, oil), or walk (rubbers, destruction of area, consumption of animals/animal foods). I shouldn't have even been born (i do all of this, and hundreds of thousands more than damage the world simply by living in America, driving, working. throughout my life, i've probably used enough paper to make a forest, not even counting my job, my tests, everything else)
The thing is man, we here at /out/ want to try our damn best to leave no trace. If thats not your lifestyle, if you would prefer to leave obvious signs you visited the campsite, then that's you man, be part of the group that makes camping more difficult for the rest of us, Make us clean up your mess, that you made in someone else's home. Burn, and cook, and incinerate, so that we as campers have less and less beautiful places to go, so water is more dangerous to drinks, so ecosystems get stressed more.
If you can live with living like a child, always taking and taking, consuming without a thought about the rest of the world, human or otherwise, than keep it up.
Just know i'll be cleaning up those slim jims and bear cans, scattering your ashes, and planting trees to wildfire burn areas, that stretch for hundreds of hundreds of acres.
We don't want that.
