Trash on the trail

Not necessarily a trail, but every time I go to the Maumee river to look for arrowheads on the bank I always pick up a lot of garbage. As well as at my grandmas on Lake Erie. I even saw some kids having a small fire and leave probably a garbage bag full of garbage full of stuff when they went home. Really sad.
 
I recall camping when I was a youngster (30 years ago or so) and it was before the $.05 deposit on cans and bottles. Lots of each everywhere. Swimming in a lake or pond away from a designated swim area was risky business. I recall more than a few cut feet between my family, friends an myself.

Now I don't often see as much. Also having different pop tops on cans that stay attached keeps me from seeing pull tabs scattered around the woods.

Over the past few years I most often see Powerbar/Cliff bar wrappers here and there. Good thing they're lightweight.
 
I do my best to pick up as much trash as i can. There are a couple of trails I hit that are pretty littered. There's one place where there's a refrigerator in the middle of nowhere. You can't drive a truck out there, maybe an ATV, but some someone when through a lot of trouble just to litter.

UGH...
 
That's why I prefer to go off-trail whenever I can. Less trails, less trash.

But even when you think you've made it somewhere on a bare mountain top, there is still crap around. I really hate finding empty fuel canisters. Burying toilet paper, I can understand, but pack out an empty canister at least...
 
Luckily most of the trails systems I favor are pretty much free from trash, :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup:

...they are not heavily used and the people who use them tend to take good care of their pristine playground.



Though I do see a fair amount of flotsam washed up on the banks of the river. :(



When I hike in more populated areas I am often aghast by what I see in otherwise beautiful places, :eek:

...some folks just don’t have a clue. :thumbdn:





"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike

Forest & Stream
 
Yeah, it's ugly, but trash is now and forever will be a part of the land scape. So much so, I base some of my survival skills practice around it. traps can be made with cans, the metal can be used for all kinds of tools. Glass too, as well as sections of cloth and plastic. Plastic bags can make cordage or even crude cloth. food scraps make good bait, even if you pile them up in one of the discarded cans to grow maggots in.
 
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