These photos tell you why Gary and I tend to be overly protective of the national forests. We get upset when they are abused. Let a President sign one too any bills giving rights to timber, mining and cattle interests and he (and sometime in the future she) is in danger of losing our votes.
When Gary arrived at Day Lake on May 18 he began to collect litter that previous campers had left behind last season. Glass beer bottles, aluminum cans and beer boxes have always been a problem but plastic water bottles are catching up. When I arrived on Thursday, we walked the bag of trash to the receptacle.
We obsessively clear a campsite when we are done with it. Gary even brings along a rake to do the job properly. He sweeps out the floor of the pit toilet when he arrives and when he leaves. He brings along a room deodorizer and even has a bag of coat hooks so that each toilet has one. This comes in handy when one has a wet coat along. A wet coast picks up everything, including slugs, from a toilet floor.
The rangers always tell him, “Stay as long as you want!” He makes their job easier.
We try to leave places better than the way we found them. That's a good philosophy any way you look at it.
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Tonight, I'll be back in Seymour. He'll return two days later.
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