Anywhere people go, you can find trash that they've left behind; it's unfortunately human nature. Not everyone who visits our backcountry areas are litterbugs, but it's everyone's responsibility to haul out more than they brought in. Most responsible 4-wheelers automatically pull over and pick up any trail trash that they happen to come upon. In fact, it's such an expected behavior that a Trasharoo is found on the back of most trail rigs these days:
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My Rubicon Trail Foundation special edition Trasharoo |
One of my friends recently posted on Pirate4x4 a good lesson to share with kids, litterbugs, and trail-closure people regarding the reality of trail trash. I've reprinted it here:
Here is my take on the Trail Trash issue, whether it be Rubicon, Fordyce, Slick Rock, Greenhorn, or Johnson Valley:
NO ONE who comes to this forum can claim ignorance. Facts are we have been resting on OUR Laurels. Education never stops. EVER. We all have to continue to pull together to keep the trail clean, in good shape, and functioning.
I had a friend tonight (MC guy) complain to me about his cohorts. How the trails were looking trashed.
I've always said - "It's like being a Mom (or Dad), and mopping the kitchen floor. You scrub that floor, pay particular attention to the corners, under the cabinets, you pull out your good, HD floor cleaner tech and kick some azz on that dirt. You take a moment to stand back and admire your work, it looks clean and sparkly, 10 seconds later the boys come in from outside, spend 5 minutes getting a snack and heading to the living room to play video rock crawling. You turn around after the very brief whirlwind of activity is over, your kitchen floor is TRASHED".
What do you do? Do you go online and air the very same dirty laundry that everyone else in this world experiences, or do you pick up your mop and DO IT AGAIN?
You calmly - with a smile on your face, grateful to have a kitchen floor to mop - pick up your swiffer wet jet and DO IT AGAIN
My point is - even if you spent the time to educate your torrid teens/pre-teens, you're never going to stop needing to MOP THE FLOOR. It needs to be done daily whether you think so or not.
Regular attention needs to be paid to all our trails. ALL OF THEM.
Like I also said to my MC friend, you don't clean/maintain that trail for only yourself, you do it for the dumb jerks who you didn't get to educate, you do it for the criminals, and you do it for the responsible folks. You just do it because YOU want to ride again.
Please let's take the narcissism out of why we do what we do and JUST DO IT.
Great words. I don't have a Trasharoo but think that is an addition that would look great on my Jeep!
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