[hapemask]

[Cyclopath]

I don't mind seeing rocks when I hike.

[Chief Joseph]

What if a rock rolls downhill and lands on top of another rock, do the "Purists" still feel the need to kick it over? Some people just like to kick rocks or maybe someone told them to and they took the comment literally?

[Pyrites]

I think someone’s already claimed the passing rocks and trees like they’re standing still schtick.

[Sculpin]

[neek]

[Chief Joseph]

Over on the east side of Priest Lake at the fork in the road to Mt Roothaan and Chimney Rock, the correct way is marked by red paint on the tree....if you ever try to find a TH over there you will see why. There is a veritable maze of roads going every which way, it can literally make your head spin, lol. I know what you are thinking, that with today's technology, GPS, etc, one should have no problem. However, some of us are route finding challenged.

[Cyclopath]

He's anybody ever considered building animatronic cairns that wave to hikers as they go by?

[treeswarper]

They need to get a better dog. The Used Dog was very good at finding and following a snow covered trail. Apparently a lot of stinky feet from all the users could be detected under the snow. He was right on, and unleashed.

[snoqpass]

[treeswarper]

[snoqpass]

[coldrain108]

[snoqpass]

Hopefully people have learned more about the impacts of their actions since they were a kid plus we have learned a lot more about the environment in the last 50 years, people used to dump cars and appliances in rivers back in the day because few people understood or cared about the effects on the habitat in streams and rivers, even seemingly innocuous actions can have lasting effects. The health of these streams is important for many species to survive and flourish both large and small, many get overlooked because people are narrowly focused on the salmon not realizing the diversity of life in and around the water

[treeswarper]

You better control the floods then. A heck of a lot of rocks get moved around in rivers. If a salmon can't hop over a kid built dam, the salmon is pretty lame. Ever watched them go over the dam in Tumwater Canyon? During low water flows, salmon are screwed anyway, and the fisheries dept. has not done what really needs to be done-- ban salmon fishing by everybody for a while. You perfect folks need to use some discretion in your condemnations. You can get downright stupid. On a trail crew that I volunteered on a teen was packing out a small bit of wood that he'd chopped off. He was proud of it. What is the harm in that? I guess a hell of a lot to a righteous person, as one person, just another volunteer, insisted he must leave it. It was about three inches in diameter and 18 inches long. A stick. No fun allowed. Ever. It's my opinion that righteous crusading no nothings are ruining the outdoors experience just as much as the vandalizing group. And yes, you can cite papers, and show photos but overall, looking at the big picture, playing with rocks does little harm. Otherwise, the world would have ended some time ago. The original inhabitants moved rocks about, and I fear some idiot is going to dismantle their historical rock piles and ceremonial rock arrangements because the idiot doesn't know or care about history. Concentrate on getting people to bury their poop and poop away from wet areas. That's a more worthy cause.