[pct-l] Restop

[StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@aol.com)]

In a message dated 9/28/2005 7:06:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
judson@jeffnet.org writes:

>>>If it's OK for a 1000 lb. horse to crap on the trail, it's  OK for me to 
bury it in the woods.>>>




Right on!!!  And further...  If it's ok, why is it ok for a horse  to crap on 
the trail?  I had a discussion with a horseman on the PCT this  summer.  He 
said it was "natural."  I'm thinking that horses have been  on this continent 
for 400 years and man has been here for 15 or so thousand  years, shouldn't it 
be more "natural," and hence, OK for me to crap on  the trail?  He also said 
it didn't smell bad.  I got news for horse  people... it does.  Why can't 
horsepeople carry a small shovel and just get  off their horses and throw it to the 
side of the trail?
 
I know, I know.... horse people do a lot of trail maintenance.  I  thank them 
for that!  But.. given a choice, I'd rather walk through 15  Section O's than 
stumble along a trail, swatting flies, holding my nose, dancing  to avoid the 
piles, and swearing and swearing and swearing.  I'll carry a  Restop bag when 
horsemen do.
 
And I mean that in the nicest possible way to my horse-loving friends  :C)
 
"No Way Ray"  Echols