>>60776>Im really liking this board so far but Im getting a real intolerant hippie vibe from it so far. just sayinWhen you actually start paying attention to the amount of litter you can find in camping areas frequented by the more casual campers, as opposed to areas frequented exclusively by [air quotes]hardcore[/air quotes] campers - for instance if you compare a high use campsite in an area accessible by horses and <10 miles from a trailhead with another area that's not accessible by horses and is >10 miles from a trailhead - you will become jaded as well.
The difference is startling, and by that I mean the difference is several full garbage bags of metal cans, glass bottles, discarded clothing, plastic "junk", forsaken tent stakes, milk jugs, and hundreds of food wrappers (and that was just what we could carry). It makes you want to set up some sort of cattle guards along the trail at the 2 mile mark just to stop horse-packers and possibly other casuals from progressing to a point that would make cleaning up after their ignorance too time-consuming.
I always practice LNT as best as I can. When I finish camping, even if I had a campfire, the untrained eye would not be able to notice that there was a campsite there. I do not expect other people to practice LNT to this extent, but if you can't clean up after yourself - I'm not talking about replacing the rocks you kicked aside to pitch your tent - but at least do a once-over of your campsite to look for garbage, and at least make an honest attempt to scatter evidence of human occupation. If you leave and people see your stone fire pit with log pile by it, other people will camp in the same spot, increasing the impact.
Oh yeah, and cigarette butts and bullet casings are garbage too. Pick that shit up, please. If you want to know why posts about shooting guns in the woods are met with "hippie hostility," it's because people are sick of finding this kind of litter out there.
