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 | Identify Areas of the Weminuche Wilderness Spoiled by Outfitters or Hunters |
| Identify Those Outfitters That Practice "Leave No Trace" Principles |
| Identify those Forest Service agencies responsible for any problem area |
| Show Pictures of the Garbage Left by the Outfitters or Hunters. |
The pictures of trash have been taken down on the assurance of Crazy Horse Outfitters that it has been removed and that a new bread of outfitters is taking over the area. These outfitters claim to follow a "Leave No Trace" policy. If any reader would like to compliment or recommend an outfitter for conservation efforts I will post the name address and phone number here or give a link to their web site.
To qualify, the outfitter must not:
| Dig a latrine or build an outhouse that stays up for the summer for customers. (Potty seats in the wilderness - I have seen a number of them) |
| Leave equipment unattended overnight. This means that when the outfitter takes one group out and brings another in, everything is hauled out and returned with the next group. |
| Cut trees near the camp site for corrals, tents or simply to provide easy firewood for the next year in camped out areas. |
| Scatter "temporary" trash around a favorite campsite to discourage others from using it it the camp is abandoned to take one group out and brining in another. |
I have personally witnessed each of these offenses by outfitters over a 15 year period. I would sincerely like to believe that they no longer occur. This is why I am asking for compliments as well as complaints.
If you hike the Weminuche and find trash, please take pictures and note the location. We will post the information on this web site. E-mail a digitized photo file or mail a print you can spare and we will scan it.
If you see an outfitter doing something you really like, take pictures of that too and send them in.
Any other gross violations of any other wilderness area will be posted in a separate webpage and linked. Please try to identify the forest service district the violation is in.
Steve Grigory has hiked nearly all of the trails in the Weminuche Wilderness over the past 15-years - many of them more than once. From 1982 to 1986 he took Explorer Post 304 (BSA coed, teenage group) out of San Antonio, Texas on 10-day treks each year but for the past 10-years has organized a group of male adults ages 18 to 60 for a trek each spring. He has been incensed at the trash and gear stored at outfitter campsites over the winter and the building of privies for soft duffers that outfitters ferry up on horseback.
