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Can't say I ever noticed an apple core where I hike, but shit like orange peels and banana peels are just dumb to litter. The real annoyance, though, for me, is all the horse shit. Doesn't matter the season, that shit stinks and actively detracts from the experience of hikers because you have to constantly be looking down so as not to step in it. It's not helping their case that horses have the right of way on all trails. It's not really enough for me to just hike off trail either because hiking off trail is a totally different experience - you go much slower, cover fewer miles, etc.
I used to be bothered by groups of people who talk really loud while hiking, and especially by idiots who bring their ipods to listen to music without headphones while hiking, but then I realized how easy it is to avoid these people. Still kind of annoying in the peak of the season, when they can be found on a lot more trails than usual.
Shit that still bothers me:
>absolutely destroying a permanent campsite (in a USA national forest - one of the ones that other people have used in the past and may use again) with litter, destruction of trees, building huge fire rings and then filling them in with rocks and garbage - and then building second and third fire rings because the first one was all filled in
>carving names in tree bark, especially in aspen trees. this should be a crime with a steep fine and prison sentence.
>park rangers and other rule/permit/fee faggotry. no, i am not going to pay $20 to support your rule enforcement.
>closure signs. the wilderness is not a store. it doesn't close, you idiots.
>people who camp literally right next to a lake in an alpine forest where water contamination is actually an issue. i'd like to think that they will walk 200 feet away to take a shit, but i doubt they walk that far away to take a piss or wash their dishes, and the type of people who do this are usually stupid enough to sudds up the water by using soap or shampoo. fuck those people.
