What is your feeling about No-Trace Camping?

Leave No Trace is very important. In the modern world, traveling to distant locations is very possible for many people, which means you have more people visiting more locations all the time. My favorite park in the world is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, it is relatively large and when you visit you don't see that many people. Even if you don't run into other people, the park still receives over 200,000 visitors every year, that's a significant number of people and we need to be aware of our actions if we are going to preserve it.

To me, the most important aspect of Leave No Trace isn't just respect for the wilderness, but respect for visitors who will come after you. I don't like finding other peoples trash, so I don't leave my trash behind for others to find.

The best way to minimize your impact and to make it easier to clean up after yourself is to plan ahead. Instead of packing metal or glass containers, bring food that is in plastic bags. Once the bags are empty, they take up almost no space and weigh next to nothing, so there is no excuse not to bring your garbage back with you. Burning your garbage pollutes the air (and makes your campfire smell bad IMO) and burying it just leaves it for animals to come dig it up (unless you bury it several feet down, they can smell it).

The places you visit are beautiful, leave them exactly how you found so that others can enjoy what you experienced.

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This is the way I've always camped... but not because of some recent advertising campaign or government programs. It just makes good sense and is the responsible thing to do. My parents and mentors taught this to me, and I'm teaching it to my kids. I also leave no trace when I leave my table at Mc Donalds, finish my work on a construction site, or leave our picnic spot at the park.

This is not a new concept. Unfortunately, there are still people out there who haven't heard of this and don't follow this rule.

If you have not taken a "Leave No-Trace" class or attended a seminar I would highly recommend it. It is not only leaving a lasting legacy but safety.

I have been practicing this concept from my first hunting trip in OR. Was taught by my father. Guess he was before his time.

Stop take a breath and see a rainbow over a waterfall. You know I think there is a God.

I rat 'em out so officialdom can attend people before they leave their problem for somebody

else to clean. I've had responders in under 3 minutes at State and County Parks. It takes

longer in National Forest but usually between Rangers and County Sheriff they can coordinate

an appropriate welcome. It isn't cheap what with an attorney fee, bail bond rates, trial cost,

and probably 60 to 180 hours of community service afterward. I always honk and wave at the

felons cleaning highway ditches. Those who don't know any better look up and grin.

personally, it's just dig a hole and use it as a bathroom, then bury it, I usually make it a couple feet deep and throw in a pile of rocks in before dirt to make it solid, at least before the bad stuff, so no one will step on it and fall through, not a good thing to happen with new boots lol

I either pack out or burn all the garbage(mostly burn and bury), unless it can have a second purpose(bread bags for covering feet in the boots, good waterproofing for feet.

They should add no smoking to it as well. Hate to smell a cig when I am in the wilderness. Yuk!

http://www.lnt.org/

this link has a wonderful NPS video on "leave no trace",

please take the 10 minutes to watch it

It should be mandatory. I'm sick of going to a naice campsite that's full of other people's garbage!

Beverly

http://www.crazybeverly.com/