>>514555>While I agree with most of that, there are a few that rustle my jimmies:>>>use established campsites and trails>>not washing yourself in streams or your dishes, with sand>>don't build structures (muh leanto)>>use only deadwood for fire>>Fucking glampers.I'd give you the established campsite one if you didn't take issue with the other three. The reason they encourage you people to use established campsites is because they know that the general population of idiots is UNABLE to leave no trace by choosing their own campsites because you insist on hacking up trees, building permanent structures and not cleaning up after yourselves. Case in point:
>sudsing up streams and lakes in the backcountry>"muh leanto">unable to understand the concept of dead and down woodPeople like you are why we have LNT. You don't need to cut down trees and build a fucking lean-to every night you go camping. If everyone did that, the forests would literally be full of lean-tos and hacked up trees. Otherwise pristine meadows would turn into some kind of abandoned hobo villages.
Ideally, people would choose an unimpacted spot in the woods, move some sticks and rocks out of the way so they have space, set their tent on an area already bare of vegetation; have a small, controlled fire with dead and down wood on an area already clear of vegetation, NOT using rocks to build a fire ring; camp; and then in the morning, replace the sticks and rocks you moved away the night before to where they originally were, scatter the ashes of your fire, bury the ash pile, walk around the campsite in the morning several times to make sure there were no traces of your presence whatsoever, and leave the campsite from a different location than you found it to avoid establishing a trail or encouraging other campers to return to the exact site.
The above is what I do when I go camping, and not to sound elitist, but if you can't at least do that much, then you don't belong in the woods.
