[pct-l] was No camping - now building fires

[Jeffrey Olson]

I cringe every time I hear of a someone out for more than a couple days 
routinely making a fire.  We go to all the trouble of carrying really 
light stoves or going stoveless, and then make a fire.  For me this is 
akin to poorly burying poop.  I camped a couple hundred yards above the 
trail just before the Packwood Glacier and what's left of the Yelverton 
Shelter in the Goat Rocks on a little ridge that gave us views of both 
Adams and Rainier.  We looked west over where the snowgrass flat trail 
hits the PCT and saw six fires.  Granted these were weekenders, but it 
made me think.  Isn't it a moral imperative for those of us hiking 
sections or the whole to treat the wilderness with the utmost respect, 
to tread lightly upon the land?  Don't we model for others?  Just a 
thought...

Jeffrey Olson
Martin, SD (the flyover zone)

Sean Nordeen wrote:
> There are actually other restrictions in some wilderness areas such as no open fires (but this is typically a local requirment if it exists and doesn't apply to all.  As an example, the San Jacinto Wilderness in SoCal forbids them).  
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