[Brian Curtis]

Besides leaving poop bags along the trail, sometimes people pack them out and then leave them at the trailhead. We picked up one full and one empty bag on a trail last week and cleaned up three more piled at the trailhead which had no trash can.

[stever]

I was hiking at a popular trail along I-90 and I didn't notice any dog poop bags on the trail....on the way down I stopped at the bathroom. Someone had taken all of the bags (and there were a lot of them) and placed them in rows inside the bathroom. I guess they thought whoever was going to clean the bathroom would take them?

[cascadeclimber]

This is a large and growing and gross and unsanitary issue. A couple weeks ago there four FOUR bags of dog sh## in the first 100 yards of the Cable Line trail. How damn lazy do you have to be to leave a disgusting bag of turd 30 seconds from your car?? Look. You want to hike with your pet, that's fine (on a leash). But with that comes responsibility to other hikers. I don't leave my turds on trails (though I hiked past two piles of human poop directly on trails in March), don't leave turds from your party. If you don't like carrying dog turds on your hike, rethink bringing your dog. Your party, your responsibility. I once carried a partner's blue bag from the summit of Rainier back to Muir. Seriously, it's not a big deal. Be responsible; pick it up and carry it up and back down. You are likely to forget it, or decide it's not a big deal to leave it on the way down. And even if you do remember, NO ONE wants to hike past a bag full of crap that you left, if even for just an hour. Good grief.

[Stefan]

I remember back in days of yore when people let their dogs roamed free and let their dogs relieve themselves amongst the ferns and salal well off trail...and leave it alone...and the stuff would decompose. I think people are going into the off trail and picking up the dog stuff. I remember, when dogs relieved themselves well off trail, nobody cared. Nobody. I guess the stuff doesn't decompose anymore and so hence people are bagging it up. Why are people even bagging that stuff up? Why not just throw it like monkees?

[rubywrangler]

[HikingBex]

I think a lot of people don't want to carry it with them because then they can smell the poop for much of their hike. Here's our tried & true method: Step 1: Buy a pint of your favorite flavor of Talenti gelato (the ones that come in a plastic container w/ screw top lid) Step 2: Eat gelato (bonus points if you do this all in one sitting) Step 3: Wash out container well Step 4: Bring old Talenti container on hikes as an airtight Poop Containment Device to carry the stinky bags until you find a trashcan This way you get to eat ice cream AND not be a huge ass#### on the trail. Win-win! Or just get a backpack for your dog and make them carry their own poop out - added bonus of dogs looking objectively adorable in backpacks.

[coldrain108]

[Cyclopath]

[flatsqwerl]

just use a turd-a-pult and launch it into the woods, skipping the whole bagging, transporting and transferring to a landfill somewhere process. The shits going to be somewhere anyway.

[Brian R]

[timberghost]

Yea it's always those that would never do such a thing that complain the loudest. The do gooders.

[treeswarper]

I do that, so does my friend, we pick it up on the way back, don't understand how that ruins your life. We put it out of site so unless you are taking a dump yourself, you won't see it.

[Cyclopath]

The truth is people who don't like smelly turd bags lining the trails should talk or write to the land management agency about them.

[uww]

[Roly Poly]

I talked at length with a ranger about this issue and he prefers that people just chuck it into the brush. Seems way better than those nasty bags. I used to pick up the poop bags from Kendall peak lakes as it was my special place but now the hordes have discovered this once forgotten hike, I don’t play poop fairy any more.