Disappointed in my fellow outdoorsman

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Sorry to say it, but your thread is titled incorrectly. Whoever left that garbage, is no outdoorsman...
I'll keep my opinions to myself on this one. Gotta try to keep my blood pressure down.

ETA: Looks like remmmm beat me to it.
 
stingray4540 said:
Sorry to say it, but your thread is titled incorrectly. Whoever left that garbage, is no outdoorsman...
I'll keep my opinions to myself on this one. Gotta try to keep my blood pressure down.

ETA: Looks like remmmm beat me to it.
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Yeah, I agree...just "outdoor slobs":mad: Stuff like that really pisses me off. Even as a college kid, we would head up into the mountains, build a fire and drink beer, but we policed up after ourselves...if you're not a good steward of the outdoors, you're not an "outdoorsman".

It's so funny how kids come home decrying the damage to "mother earth" yet throw gum rappers, bottles and trash on the ground. I really hound my kids on this, especially when we're out backpacking. Leaving "no-trace" is just good practice.

Good on your for cleaning it up. I would find a sign that says $1000.00 find for littering and post it near your site. Well, the good news is that everybody's PSK should have a garbage bag...if not for a shelter, use it as intended and make the trails and campsites better than when you arrived.

ROCK6
 
IIRC, you are in the U.P.? very well could be wolf, we see alot up there at our place now...
 
I hate that! Messy jerks, stay home and go to a mall or something, don't mess up our wilderness!
I know how you feel:mad:
 
Good on you for cleaning up. IMO bones like that don't last too long on the ground, the mice chew them to pieces. The party mess is another story. Beer must be lighter than I remember. I don't think I've ever been too remote in the lower 48 to find that someone packed in a case and left the bottles behind. Here in Brazil you don't find that kind of mess more than 10 paces from a parking area. It never seems to make it into the trunk for the ride home but it stays fairly concentrated near vehicle access. Mac
 
Woof-woof:thumbup:
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cmdionne said:
I think they brought along a bone for the dog to chew on while they got buzzed. Looks like the cow femurs you can buy at the pet store.
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I had the same idea. Dog along for the trip and something to keep him busy while they had a party. I don't think the slobs would take the time to cook up a large chunk of meat.
 
Yager said:
IIRC, you are in the U.P.? very well could be wolf, we see alot up there at our place now...
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A wolf has more longish pads and the 2 middle pads are not as close together as a dogs. Their claws are bigger, longer and pointier than a dogs and more pronounced. Generally it leaves a narrower track than a dog.

I think its a dog becausem as stated above, a coyote/wolf/fox would have a narrower track. This one is more round.
 
Reminds me of the bones I buy from Target for my pups.

Large Bone from Target:

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When they get picked clean or are outside for sometime they look exactly like the one you took a pic of. So with that bone looking like the dozens I have bought for my dogs and with that track, I am thinking it's your beer drinker's pet.
 
PorcupineMtns66 said:
Can anyone ID this? Feline or K-9? All four toe pads left distinct claw holes. The track was only about 2 3/4" long. This was going up an incline and the claws were not straight out like a dog claw. They were dug down into the snow. I'm thinking feline with claws all out and dug in for traction.

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That's a feral dog.
 
Been cleaning up campsites and trails since age 5, it drove my Dad nuts.

He had a quirky sense of humor, what little humor he had. Camping 2 spots down from a bunch of drunken bottle smashers. He said no point in talking to the idiots and during the day we gathered up a bag of broken glass near the beach and around camp as normal

5:00 the next morning before fishing, without me knowing he quietly spread broken glass in front of all their tents and around their campsite. Wakes me up and into the boat we go, could not understand why we stayed fishing in the boat launch bay near the campsites. Around 9:00am we hear cursing and swearing, and he starts to laugh and laugh, telling me (age 12) about it as he motored out of the bay. I am sure they could hear him.

Funny seeing 6 teenagers pout and glare at everyone around during the afternoon guessing whodunit, one of the guys came out barefoot to take a leak..... That evening the bottle smashing and throwing was nonexistent.

One of my fondest memories of the old man and his frontier justice(big german farmer/butcher) his nickname was Tom the Terminator for multiple reasons at the plant.
 
At least they didnt smash the bottles.

This could have been a case of "packing these empties out will be pain in the ass.... just like bringing them in was."

I know I would be upset to find signs of other people, especially garbage, in a place that I enjoy.
 
Brad "the butcher";7748352 said:
Been cleaning up campsites and trails since age 5, it drove my Dad nuts.

He had a quirky sense of humor, what little humor he had. Camping 2 spots down from a bunch of drunken bottle smashers. He said no point in talking to the idiots and during the day we gathered up a bag of broken glass near the beach and around camp as normal

5:00 the next morning before fishing, without me knowing he quietly spread broken glass in front of all their tents and around their campsite. Wakes me up and into the boat we go, could not understand why we stayed fishing in the boat launch bay near the campsites. Around 9:00am we hear cursing and swearing, and he starts to laugh and laugh, telling me (age 12) about it as he motored out of the bay. I am sure they could hear him.

Funny seeing 6 teenagers pout and glare at everyone around during the afternoon guessing whodunit, one of the guys came out barefoot to take a leak..... That evening the bottle smashing and throwing was nonexistent.

One of my fondest memories of the old man and his frontier justice(big german farmer/butcher) his nickname was Tom the Terminator for multiple reasons at the plant.
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Thats a great story! Your dad sounds like a great guy and those kids got what they deserved :D
 
You can cut off those knobby ends and make some real nice bow drill handholds that fit nicely into the palm of your hand.
 
glass can be pretty handy in the wild, so can spare vessels.

i quit getting mad about excrement and trash out in the wild a long time ago. - it's survival resources nowadays....

practice flint knapping with the bottle bottoms, and use the rest for ....well ...there is other good stuff you can do, let's leave it at that....

vec
 
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