[pct-l] Yosemite - a story looking for a problem

[Cat McPeek]

Iconic National Parks Move to Eliminate Landfill Trash
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150629-zero-landfill-national-parks-yosemite-grand-teton-denali/

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From: "Andrea Dinsmore" <andrea at dinsmoreshikerhaven.com>
To: "Douglas Tow" <douglastow at gmail.com>
Cc: "PCT-L" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Subject: [pct-l] Yosemite - a story looking for a problem
Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2015 2:13 PM

To put that in perspective to our place for a hiker season........700+
hikers.....700 resupply boxes... and trash from 700 hikers like beer cans
and bottles....pizza boxes and their other stuff....that's a lot of trips
to the country dump station. Figure average two trips a week for 3-4
months. $25 per trip. Non hiker season...one trip a month. Just
saying.....😇

Andrea
On Jul 18, 2015 1:59 PM, "Douglas Tow" <douglastow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Steady on.
>
> In 2014, there were 4,029,416 visitors to Yosemite.  If just 5% of those
> had a pizza, and just 5% of those failed to bus their pizza box to the
> trash, that would still be 10,000 dirty pizza boxes to be taken care of by
> park employees.  Let's photoshop that many boxes in one big pile, and write
> a story about teenagers, or slovenly park visitors, or some other arbitrary
> group.  Perhaps let's not.
>
> PCT hikers represent less than 1/20 of 1% of visitors to the park, and less
> than 3% of hikers overnighting in the park.
>
> Many, many hikers I come across at passes and road crossings have a nice
> handful of trash left by others (usually proximate to roads) that they have
> picked up.
>
> You know what's right.  Leave memorable tips, and get on up to Canada...
>
> Chipmunk
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