08-03-2003, 04:29 PM
Hiked in to Meadow Lake in the Uintas on Saturday. When I got there, a group of about 15 boy scouts with 3 scoutmasters were just finishing breakfast. I asked them how the fishing was and they said "it stunk" and they were glad to be heading home.
I fished for awhile and caught plenty of 5-8 inch cutts on chernobyls, and then left shortly after the scout troop. I was walking back to the trail through the area they were camping and was appalled by the amount of trash! A little bit of everything...candy bar wrappers, one sock, fishing line, lure packaging, an empty bottle of coleman propane...I couldn't believe it. Even if the trash wasn't theirs, don't scouts "pack out more than they pack in?" I was never a scout but I am not above picking up a few pieces of trash that some idiot left behind, let only my own trash!
So...I filled a plastic grocery bag with the trash I could find and then headed up the trail,knowing I could easily catch a group of twenty in five miles. I took the trash up to the leading scout leader and simply said, "I believe you forgot this." Then walked on.
Maybe I went to far. But nothing peeves me like litter does. And believe me, I hike in the uintas once or twice a week and I've ran into many scout leaders that shouldn't even be in charge of themselves.
For what it's worth.
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I fished for awhile and caught plenty of 5-8 inch cutts on chernobyls, and then left shortly after the scout troop. I was walking back to the trail through the area they were camping and was appalled by the amount of trash! A little bit of everything...candy bar wrappers, one sock, fishing line, lure packaging, an empty bottle of coleman propane...I couldn't believe it. Even if the trash wasn't theirs, don't scouts "pack out more than they pack in?" I was never a scout but I am not above picking up a few pieces of trash that some idiot left behind, let only my own trash!
So...I filled a plastic grocery bag with the trash I could find and then headed up the trail,knowing I could easily catch a group of twenty in five miles. I took the trash up to the leading scout leader and simply said, "I believe you forgot this." Then walked on.
Maybe I went to far. But nothing peeves me like litter does. And believe me, I hike in the uintas once or twice a week and I've ran into many scout leaders that shouldn't even be in charge of themselves.
For what it's worth.
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