ARE YOU A PARTY CRASHER?LETS TALK SOME TRASH

[Chadlyb]

So I watched a great video by Primal Outdoors this morning that got me all jacked up because it's probably mine and M's biggest pet peeve. Please watch and share.
Got me thinking about how we all are a bunch of party crashers in the outdoors. Really think about it. Have you ever had a squirrel drop off his nutshells in your sleeping bag and leave.? A bear ever open up your rig and use it as a toilet then just walk off? Hopefully not, but we do. Every day the local government and federal government agencies shut down roads, trails, parks, and deny access for negligence and abuse of our outdoor space. I just want everyone to share and do our part to keep it clean and beautiful for generations to come. By no means am I pointing fingers. Just stating we can and should always do more or try to help in any way we can. Thank all of you reading this that do and those who go above and beyond. Trail Guardians. Just something I learned very early on in my early fathers wilderness teachings. You packed it in. You pack it out. You find others trash, just pick it up so no one else has to deal with it , especially the wildlife.

 

[Flipper]

Everywhere we travel we pick up litter on the trails and on the water. Dirtiest: Ocala National Forest, Fl. and the Florida Keys. Most pristine: Colorado

 

[Chadlyb]

Everywhere we travel we pick up litter on the trails and on the water. Dirtiest: Ocala National Forest, Fl. and the Florida Keys. Most pristine: Colorado

Thank you for doing your part...appreciated

 

[britz]

Yep. Our property line is the Clearwater NF boundary. It's usual to see beer cans right outside the boundary line because folks drink, then toss the evidence. We'll find fast food wrappers when there's no fast food for 100+ miles.
But the saddest thing was going out to a fire lookout cabin last weekend, and finding someone made themselves at home and left their food/beverage waste and green propane canisters for someone else to clean up. Four hours from any form of civilization, and they dragged it in but we're too lazy to pack it out.I

I don't understand why some folks make fun of Trasharoos and the like, it makes it so easy to pack out your trash and, unfortunately, others' as well.

 

[Chadlyb]

Yep. Our property line is the Clearwater NF boundary. It's usual to see beer cans right outside the boundary line because folks drink, then toss the evidence. We'll find fast food wrappers when there's no fast food for 100+ miles.
But the saddest thing was going out to a fire lookout cabin last weekend, and finding someone made themselves at home and left their food/beverage waste and green propane canisters for someone else to clean up. Four hours from any form of civilization, and they dragged it in but we're too lazy to pack it out.I

I don't understand why some folks make fun of Trasharoos and the like, it makes it so easy to pack out your trash and, unfortunately, others' as well.

Proudly display my trasharoo and always happy to share what it is and what it's for. Always have extra bags on hand for everyone.

 

[Flipper]

Yep. Our property line is the Clearwater NF boundary. It's usual to see beer cans right outside the boundary line because folks drink, then toss the evidence. We'll find fast food wrappers when there's no fast food for 100+ miles.
But the saddest thing was going out to a fire lookout cabin last weekend, and finding someone made themselves at home and left their food/beverage waste and green propane canisters for someone else to clean up. Four hours from any form of civilization, and they dragged it in but we're too lazy to pack it out.I

I don't understand why some folks make fun of Trasharoos and the like, it makes it so easy to pack out your trash and, unfortunately, others' as well.

Its called ignorance.

 

[chuckoverland]

And dig a hole if you have to crap, for eff sake

 

[Chadlyb]

And dig a hole if you have to crap, for eff sake

Amen brother....

 

[Boort]

@Flipper

Everywhere we travel we pick up litter on the trails and on the water. Dirtiest: Ocala National Forest, Fl. and the Florida Keys. Most pristine: Colorado

Good to hear! a lot of us up here in Co pack out more than we pack in. My group just took out 2 full bags of crap from a campsite we used in WY last weekend.
It's getting harder and harder these days with the latest influx of new users who seem to think of the outdoors as disposable, Use once and throwaway. I'm hoping they change that mind set soon.

Boort

 

[chuckoverland]

@Flipper


Good to hear! a lot of us up here in Co pack out more than we pack in. My group just took out 2 full bags of crap from a campsite we used in WY last weekend.
It's getting harder and harder these days with the latest influx of new users who seem to think of the outdoors as disposable, Use once and throwaway. I'm hoping they change that mind set soon.

Boort

We live in a throw away society, as sad as it is.

 

[Mojavewanderer]

I always leave it better than I found it. Seeing litter really bugs me. I also keep a full sized shovel in my rig partly for when nature calls.

 

[chuckoverland]

We went to one of our favorite lakes a couple weeks back and someone had gone through the trouble of crushing and bagging their trash..... so they could stuff it behind a tree.

 

[Boort]

We went to one of our favorite lakes a couple weeks back and someone had gone through the trouble of crushing and bagging their trash..... so they could stuff it behind a tree.

Amazing thing about Beer cans... they seem to be so much lighter when they are full on the way in then when empty on the way out.

Boort

 

[Chadlyb]

Amazing thing about Beer cans... they seem to be so much lighter when they are full on the way in then when empty on the way out.

Boort

Exactly....some weird super gravitational force that won't allow you to pick them up when empty.

 

[Chadlyb]

We went to one of our favorite lakes a couple weeks back and someone had gone through the trouble of crushing and bagging their trash..... so they could stuff it behind a tree.

WTF to that....was it playing hide and seek?!

 

[The Adventure Taco]

This is just sad and wrong... People need to stop abusing the privilege of using public lands

 

[CR-Venturer]

YES, thank you. This drives me absolutely nuts. I don't know what kind of Alpha Hotels people are that they dump trash in the wild, but I try to do my part by picking up at least a little bit of trash every time I go in the outdoors. If every person who went into the back country picked up even a few pieces of garbage, there'd be little to none left before long.

 

[Flipper]

I would love to be a Park Ranger and catch someone littering. They would have to get a bank loan the pay the fines after I threw the book at them.

 

[blackntan]

My greatest gripe is people who walk there dogs on public paths and sorry for this SHIT Then think its solved by putting into a PLASTIC BAG AND HANG IT IN A FOOKING TREE WAITING FOR THE SHIT FAIRY TO FLY BY AND TAKE IT AWAY

 

[WheresWaldo]

We were up in the Sequoia NF in CA last weekend which is one of our favorite destinations, sad to hear from a ranger up there that several campgrounds had recently been shut down thanks to people trashing them and defecating in the streams (which run down steep terrain over granite forming multiple beautiful water falls and swimming holes). I hadn’t realized how widespread this is getting. It’s only going to get worse so the more of us that step up to clean up and educate, the better. Thanks for your post OP! I’m ordering a trasharoo, although I don’t have a rear tire carrier I can probably just attach it to my tailgate.