Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Wag bags

The wag bag problem seems to get worse. Most of the blame is probably on one-time visitors to Mt. Whitney; the folks who just have to "conquer" to highest peak in the lower 48 states and then go home to their clean toilets.

Now the Whitney Portal Store has E. Coli contamination, which ought to prove that S... indeed flows downhill.

To top it off, the USFS seems incapable of taking the necessary steps to clean up the Whitney trail. The "long term studies" take far to long and merely prove what everyone already knows.

Drastic action is required. Like what? Close the trail from the East side for a few years until proper toilets can be installed along the trail and the trail environment has time to recover. Don't wait for it to happen; too many strident voices of protest from commercial interests in Lone Pine and whining from various political action groups. "Freedom of the hills?" To do what: wallow in our own crap.