Kate Kupferer was hiking Boulder’s popular Saddle Rock Trail with two companions on Sunday morning when they happened upon a very unwelcome new feature.
They were disturbed to find graffiti, scrawled in what appeared to be white spray paint, on a large rock in clear view read: “Explore your mind like U do this forrest.”
“It was just so disheartening,” Kupferer said. “To think that somebody loaded up their pack for a hike and threw in a can of spray paint. Who does that?”
“I’ve lived here more than 25 years, and I had never seen that kind of defacement before on a hike … I think even young children would know better than to put that on a rock on a trail,” Kupferer said. Noting the vandal’s misspelling of “forest,” she said, “They apparently missed more than just Wilderness 101.”
The defaced rock is about a 20-minute hike up from the base of the Chautauqua-area trail, Kupferer said.
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