[at-l] Cooler at Trailside, Was Bear stuff

[rickboudrie@hotmail.com (rick boudrie)]

>Your hiker was lucky, there are a lot of us, that can't stand a thief. >It 
>isn't trail magic unless its marked as trail magic or in a hiker >box. If 
>it isn't marked as trail magic it's theft. A thief on the >trail is as low 
>as it gets.

You got it all wrong Cliff ;-) !

What you have here is a case of littering.  And littering along the Trail is 
as low as it gets.

There a lot of us who can't stand that.

People have no fricking business leaving that kind of stuff beside the 
Trail.  I applaud the hiker for removing some of it.  If he made a mistake 
it was in not eating everything and packing out the cooler to the nearest 
trash can.  You just can't leave crap along the side of the Trail like that. 
  Hell, even the trail magicians shouldn't leave crap like that along the 
Trail. If you leave a food stash along the Trail, it is the leaver's (rymes 
with beaver's) responsibility to label the stash with dates and name rank 
and hiker serial number, and keep it 100% animial safe (and by extension 
hiker safe becasue we'e not gonna be to lazy to climb a tree, rip apart the 
duct tape and/or und/or undo latches and cables or pick locks) and keep it 
reasonably well hidden from view.

(FWIW, don't for get I put a smiley face on my first sentence.  Here is 
another one just in case it is needed:  :-)   There are always shades of 
grey, but its more fun to post assuming everything is black and white.  Of 
course, common sense sometimes comes into play to.  But this is a list, not 
real life, right?)

Rick B

:-)   :-)


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