[pct-l] C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S

[gary_schenk at verizon.net]

 Diane,
Right on.

Notice that many of the folks speaking out about campfires are from Southern California. It gets depressing watching the burned out areas increase year after year. Most thrus are never going to come back, others use the PCT for getting to other places, not as an end in itself.  

I try to break up every illegal ring that I come across. It's hard to get all huffy about mountain bikes and dirt bikes on the trail when parts of the hiking community itself is a bigger problem.

Gary
 

On 05/12/13, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes wrote:

I suppose nobody would gather at the 3rd gate were it not for the 
water cache. I suppose that they figure if the fire needs putting out 
there's enough water there to do it. However, if they aren't using 
the cache water to put the fire out then they aren't putting it out. 
I think that all these water caches should go. They make people too 
disconnected from their environment. You can hike from Rodriguez 
Spring (and there's a real spring further down the road, you don't 
need the tank) to Barrel Spring without a cache. It's only one night 
between the two. I've gone two nights many times in So Cal carrying 
all the water I need.
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