Tom Rankin
Well-known member
Dear Slob, I mean, Camper:
Just a few points of lean-to etiquette:
1) If you pack it in, pack it out. This is especially easy now that you have an EMPTY beer can. It weighs 12 oz. less than it did before. You can crush it down to almost 0 size. This is ESPECIALLY true of plastic bags of garbage that you threw in the outhouse!
Do you throw garbage bags in your toilet at home!? To top it off, you were at the Rider Hollow (in the Catskills) lean-to, which is all of .5 miles from the road. You carried all that stuff up there, (and it's hardly up at all), and you couldn't carry an almost weightless bag of trash back to the car?
2) Green branches don't burn well. Not to mention that it is illegal to cut down living trees!
3) American Flags that you leave around the lean-to will eventually fall off the wall, or be chewed by animals, and become garbage. Refer to point #1.
4) Nylon wrapping tape serves no useful purpose in a lean-to. Again, refer to point #1. Unless of course, you were going to use it to flag an off trail route. In which case, once again, refer to point #1.
Rant off....
Just a few points of lean-to etiquette:
1) If you pack it in, pack it out. This is especially easy now that you have an EMPTY beer can. It weighs 12 oz. less than it did before. You can crush it down to almost 0 size. This is ESPECIALLY true of plastic bags of garbage that you threw in the outhouse!
Do you throw garbage bags in your toilet at home!? To top it off, you were at the Rider Hollow (in the Catskills) lean-to, which is all of .5 miles from the road. You carried all that stuff up there, (and it's hardly up at all), and you couldn't carry an almost weightless bag of trash back to the car? 2) Green branches don't burn well. Not to mention that it is illegal to cut down living trees!
3) American Flags that you leave around the lean-to will eventually fall off the wall, or be chewed by animals, and become garbage. Refer to point #1.
4) Nylon wrapping tape serves no useful purpose in a lean-to. Again, refer to point #1. Unless of course, you were going to use it to flag an off trail route. In which case, once again, refer to point #1.
Rant off....
