[pct-l] Fire and smokers

[Edward Anderson]

That was good - it would have been even better if you and Stan Roy had grabbed him and made HIM pick it up and put it in the trash. Litterbugs are bad and defective people. They need to be taught lessons that they will remember.
 
Many years ago I had a date with a pretty blond. We had stopped and picked up some take-away food for lunch. I was driving a convertible and had driven up into a mountain area. We were still eating. When she finished she simply threw her left over litter outside. I came to a stop perhaps 150' farther. I told her to get out and recover her litter. She was furious. She refused. She wanted me to just drive her home. I refused. I told her that I would be glad to drive her home, but only after she recovered the litter. Then I took out my key and went for a short walk. I looked back to watch her going back to get the litter. There were no words spoken after that. As you can expect, that was our last date. 
But it was an event that, I have never forgotten - and I am sure that she still remembers it well. I wonder if she learned a lesson from that event.
 
MendoRider-Hiker
 

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 From: Charles Williams <charlesnolie at yahoo.com>
To: PCT list <Pct-L at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Fire and smokers
  
Back in the day...I was finishing a JMT hike and had a couple friends pick me up in Yosemite Valley.  While we were waiting at one of the valley bus stops some guy finished his cigarrette and flicked it into the dirt at the stop.  My Friend and Hero, Stan Roy, walked over to it and picked it up and put it into the trash.  With a glare in the smoker's direction.  I hope he was embarrassed.  He should have been.
 
QuincyRider

--- On Tue, 3/6/12, Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>
Subject: [pct-l] Fire and smokers
To: "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 9:55 AM


Some smokers are really careless. Yesterday I took a ten-mile + ride on my friend Primo out of my home in Agua Dulce. At on spot while passing through Vasquez Rocks Park I looked down from the saddle and saw a cigarette laying near the edge of a 3' wide part of the trail. It wad out but it did not appear that it had been put out. There was dry vegetation within inches. That's one way fires are started. Also, even if it is out, it is litter. I'm sure it was dropped by a careless day-hiker.
 
MendoRider-Hiker
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