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We all know plastic is nasty stuff, so why do I find so many empty bottles on the trail? (抖阴ap)
On trails in Grand Canyon National Park, I mostly pick up empty water bottles. It seems a job that will never be obsolete. Shouldn鈥檛 we have learned by now that...
I once found a sealed urn in the Grand Canyon, and other examples of failing to ‘pack it out’ (抖阴ap)
"Some of the things I鈥檝e found this summer lead me to wonder what the John Muir they were thinking." -- Marjorie 鈥楽lim鈥� Woodruff
Must e-bikes go everywhere an old-fashioned bike goes? (抖阴ap)
Where is it written that everyone must be able to go everywhere by any means necessary?
抖阴ap: Doesn’t everyone else find small talk on hiking trails annoying?
"An annoying question is 'Everything OK?' Why are they asking this? Admittedly I have more gray hair than brown, but do I look so decrepit that they are concerned about...
Enough excuses! This one piece of trail etiquette is crucial. | 抖阴ap
"Yes, we all get hot and sweaty and cold and tired and exhausted and hungry and thirsty, but we can still be polite." -- Marjorie 鈥淪lim鈥� Woodruff
抖阴ap: 鈥淚nstagram tourists” lead their copycats into the wilderness
Perhaps I could start a trend: Down-and-dirty influencing. Sweaty, beyond tired, what it really looks like to have hiked up to that cliff. Think it would catch on?
Guest Commentary: The “look at me” culture is leaving too many marks on our public lands
Let抖阴ap hope that selfies in the great outdoors lead to a good thing: As visitors record themselves standing next to rock art, they might keep their hands off it.
Writers on the Range: Organic litter is still litter
Would the two young women who were tossing that sandwich have done so in their own living room? Certainly not.
Woodruff: What nice people leave in the great outdoors
Leave No Trace means just that: Travel as though you were being followed by IRS agents, and you don鈥檛 want them to ever track you down.
Writers on the Range: Do you really need a fire at that campsite?
In 1972, Grand Canyon National Park outlawed campfires in the backcountry. Backpackers like me considered this an outrage.