[pct-l] Fw: Hiker Trash (Literally)

[Edward Anderson]

In 2008 I stopped at the Walker Pass PCT Campground - at the rest room there. I 
had my rig and was on the way to drop it off at a ranch in Lone Pine and then 
hitch back to my horse. There was enough to fill a medium size garbage 
bag. Especially behind the rest room. I packed it up a bag that I had and hauled 
it away. There was NO trash can there. If there had been one I'm sure that the 
hikers would use it. As it was, many probably hauled theirs into town or even on 
to Kennedy Meadows.  It really is not that difficult to do that - to crush 
empties and carry them. Really, not much weight or bulk to carry your own.

MendoRider

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: AsABat <asabat at 4jeffrey.net>
To: david woods <dkwoods33 at gmail.com>; pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Fri, May 20, 2011 1:34:04 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hiker Trash (Literally)

Hey all, there's no trash pickup if there's no trash can! So don't leave your 
trash in privies as it won't get picked up until who knows when. It just makes 
extra work and gives the man more reasons to remove privies. 


I remember the toilet at Barker Pass half full of bags and bags of trash one 
September. Some had probably been there all summer. I can't blame that all on 
PCT hikers as it's also the Tahoe Rim Trail and saw lots of blind and illiterate 
bikers as well (they couldn't see or read the dozen "no bicycle" signs at the 
trail head). 



AsABat
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david woods <dkwoods33 at gmail.com> wrote:

I used the rest room at the Sunrise Trailhead north of Laguna an hour or two 
ago. I do not know if hikers were living in there during the recent bad weather 
but one way or another there is quite a pile of what is obviously hiker food 
wrapper trash in the corner of the Men's. In retrospect I wish I had bagged it 
up and taken it with me but I was not quite awake enough to think of that at the 
time and it is a bit far to go back now (I am in Julian headed for Scissors 
Crossing). This kind of stuff obviously does not reflect well on hikers and the 
hiker community in general. Please take your trash with you and dispose of it 
properly. End of 
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