Saturday, November 14, 2009

Careless Camping







I can't remember the last time I saw such inconsiderate and reckless behavior in the outdoors. We stopped at this campsite near Cold Creek. Someone had built some kind of cheesy structure with small living trees they had cut down and lashed together complete with pine boughs for a roof . There were three campfire rings in one camp and one of them was still very hot and smoldering a very reckless thing to do considering that there are fire restrictions in place due to the close proximity of the homes at Cold Creek. I'm not even going to get into what the latrine looked like. We got to clean up our act this isn't the 1800's or the wild west anymore. We can do better, please don't cut live trees, don't build shelters. Please be careful with fires and as my ol' friend Smoky Bear says "make sure your fires are out, dead out" Please be responsible when disposing of waste, human and otherwise. Practice Leave No Trace ethics afterall your not the lone cowboy/cowgirl on the range anymore there buckroo....