Outdoor Ironies

“Isn't it a bit ironic...

...to find several stickers from "organic" fruit among the trash littering a wilderness campsite?

I encountered this on my last hike. Anyone else have similar examples to share?”

“It is ironic that I walk 10 miles to where no man has walked before and find 10,000 open range cows pooping all over the place.”

“10,000 pooping cows?
That's why no one goes there ;)”

“Wind River SHEEP!”

“I know exactly what ya mean wolfsister, at Pyramid Lk we woke up to hundreds of sheep around camp.

It's ironic when you go BP'n with an extreme liberal who hates lumber companies, hates any environmental polution but doesn't realize he's hiking in 2nd growth forest and proceeds to wash his hair in, yes in the creek.”

“Oh, and he also had some under the table negotiations so that his car would pass smog. One word comes to mind...Hypocrite”

“I dont know about everyone else buy I usualy find "bud cans" places where no man has gone before.
Windwalker2ooo
http://communities.msn.com/NCTrailTime”

“Been there done that.
I usually pick up the evidence (bud cans etc. ) so the next guy can have the illusion that "no man has been here before"”

“People that go car camping to get away from it all, and they take everything in the house with them. I used to do this, I even took a mini frig so i didn't have to get ice, tv for the picnic table, the works.

It would take three days to unload. Now i can't stand to car camp because i don't like to do all the loading and unloading. Everything we need we carry on our backs. Sure cuts down on the unloading.

We don't mind island camping, we live about 15 minutes from Lake Ouachita in central Ark., we take the party barge out to an island and camp there. AAAAAAhhhhh the good life.”

“You guys should see what camping in Holland looks like. It is not even remotely like the worst car camping in the States. They have no idea about wilderness.”

“If I lived in Holland my lungs would be so burnt I wouldn't be able to hike either ;o)

It's not really irony but I always wonder how many times do you have to put a bud bottle in the fire pit before you realize that they don't burn. While I'm at it why is it that those bottles weren't too heavy to carry in but they're too heavy to carry out.”

“This is not really an irony but it is a pet peeve of mine. I can't stand hiking on a trail and passing another hiker that has completely doused his or herself in perfume or cologne. I wonder sometimes if the stinky perfumed hiker can smell any of the wilderness over his or her own stench!”

“hehe.. almost as bad as this girl who hiked with a friend of mine.. that every time they stopped.. she was wiping the dirt and stuff off her boots.

:)”

“All of us "outdoor enthusiasts" are inside typing on our keyboards.”

“I found a bud can at Dolly Sods last weekend, and I just burned it in the fire pit.

I am really torn on the burning trash thing. The other option is adding to the land fill! Is that any better?

I have melted many a wine bottle in the fire, I always make sure it melts all the way.”

“Plus melting your wine bottles makes for a funky paper weight if is stays solid. I think of it as recycling.”

“I melted a wine bottle part way down and now the old lady uses it as a candle holder. I tried to get rid of it and she thru a fit. She said that it is a memento of our ONE and ONLY bping trip together. LOL”

“I was in the 5 Ponds Wilderness in the Adirondacks a couple of years ago when I came across an up-rooted pine tree. In the hole left by the roots were some beer bottles. I brought them home and checked on the history of the brewery and found that they went out of business in 1911. I guess other generations found the empties too heavy to pack out, too.”

“One seriously ironic thing happend to me. I climbed to the top of Mount Rose-10,774-and found cigarette butts. Damn, I was winded before I was halfway up. Who in their right minds would have a smoke up there?
They are nasty but I picked up those and left the summit clean.”

“I would”

“How about those who camp to get away from it all and bring the cell phone and pager in case work calls.”

“What about the geeks that carry there PDA's with internet capabilities that they plug into their cellphones and talk to there business associates. I want to get awy from it all and they bring it all with them!! There should be laws about this sh*t!!”

“How about people who hike to 'get away from it all' and then bring all kinds of 'baggage' with them?”

“i think that you folks are too weighted down by your issues.”

“If some one brings it all with them, I just move on a bit. There's plenty of space. But if they move in on me and start with the rock concert, I get a bit more vocal about what they can do with it. I wanna hear the critters.”