[pct-l] Trail Proximity to a desperate world (was TrailIntegrity)

[Wayne Kraft]

L-Rod,

Thank God you found my hose washer!  I lost the darn thing near  
Timberline Lodge in Oregon in 2003.  I can't imagine how it traveled  
so far south.  I'm hoping you'll hold on to it for me there at Hiker  
Heaven.  I'll pick it up on my way through in 2009 or 2010.

Wayne Kraft


On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:37 PM, dsaufley at sprynet.com wrote:

> I don't know how I missed that note -- everyone else saw it and  
> told me I'd missed it.  I was talking to a backcountry ranger near  
> the bridge, so I must not have been looking down.  I'm surprised  
> she missed it, too.  I was also excited to go over that beautiful  
> suspension bridge and was busy taking pictures of it.   I sure hope  
> someone broke down and ate the cookies the note was pointing to.
>
> I saw the feces behind a rock (I somehow chose the same rock to  
> hide behind, pardon the pun) and trash in a firepit near Olancha  
> Peak between Kennedy Meadows and Trail Pass.  Maybe they thought  
> the trash was going to burn, but it didn't.
>
> I picked up lots of flotsam all along the miles I hiked, most of  
> which was not left intentionally/carelessly, but appeared to have  
> fallen out of pockets, off of packs, etc.  Things like wrappers,  
> rubber bands, pieces of plastic, etc.  The strangest finds were a  
> rubber washer -- the kind you use for a garden hose -- and some  
> heavy gauge insulated copper wire.  Those had my imagination  
> going.  The worst stretch I encountered though wasn't on the PCT,  
> it was on the JMT, between the Happy Isles terminus and the Half- 
> Dome trail.  There was so much trash and so many tourons along that  
> stretch it was sad and somewhat spoiled the ending of my otherwise  
> wonderful hike.
>
> L-Rod
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brett <blisterfree at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Aug 14, 2006 2:19 PM
>> To: dsaufley at sprynet.com, Acu4harmony at aol.com, pct-l at backcountry.net
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail Proximity to a desperate world (was  
>> TrailIntegrity)
>>
>> I guess I wasn't focused on it, but this July I did see a
>> trail note on the ground for L-Rod near the Woods Creek
>> bridge (between Glen and Pinchot passes) which looked fresh.
>> Which is only to say we must have been walking through the
>> same conditions. <vbg>
>>
>> Seriously, fire pits in the High Sierra doesn't surprise
>> nearly as much as litter and human feces. How did I miss
>> this? (between Cottonwood and Muir passes)
>>
>> - bf
>>
>>>> It's not just the border region -- I'm sorry to say I
>>>> even found it in the Sierras this year on my hike.  I saw
>>>> litter (which I picked up), illegal fire pits, and
>>>> unburied human feces.
>>
>>
>
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