Once more up on the soap box:
I was hoping to see more support or additional ideas on how to clean up our play yard.
What I see is support of my last line and attacks on one anothers viewpoint-
'The effects of popularity- more use-generates more abuse- resulting in a place that we don't want to go to, or gets restricted so we can't....'
Burchey doesn't care because Mt Whitney has turned into a place he doesn't want to go to anymore; and Bob wants to restrict its use. Neither approach cleans up the mess...
If concerned hikers each pick up a little bit; so they leave where they go better than they found it; We become the army of volunteers, who over time; keep the place we enjoy-clean.
Otherwise, the control freaks will limit how, where, and when we can enjoy the wilderness- a much more insideous method of keeping the wild places wild- the ultimate goal of those special intrests. Eventually they'll control even those places Burchey seeks. Hopefully for him; he'll be to old to enjoy those places by then.
