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Haul out your friggin trash

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Nothing spoils an outdoor outing more than coming upon the trash left by others. Be courteous, haul out your trash, leave the area appealing to others. Sponsor http://wildernessinnovation.com

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hey perry peacock here with wilderness innovation and I came on something here this morning snow shoeing up on top to the lake that kind of irritated me and I thought boy I thought about it well I'm the way down I'm going to shoot a quick video on this and stuff just kind of ticks me off so let me show you what I'm talking about here so I snowshoeing up in here this morning and see that hot chocolate cup or coffee cup or something laying in there at the spoon there's a blue wrapper and another another cup right up in there and garbage bag sitting here and I started looking around and there is junk all over creation up here well somebody had come up here probably some will be able to imagine it looks like they brought some construction lumber with them but which is fine they built them a fire but they built it right in the right in the road here where you going to the camp got in the summer so so as you have to clean this up in the spring but you know you see all the different wrappers and spoons and foam cups and junk in the fire just left there and they left pieces of construction lumber strewn all over creation up here just slung around everywhere really can hear takes me and over in here somebody left them a bowl or whatever the heck they had in there I don't know but you know I don't know there's another coffee cup up in there another one over here I mean that's just friggin pisses me off I don't know any other way to say it just friggin pisses me off you know I mean we want to get up here in the mountains you know we want to snowshoe or cross-country ski or whatever the heck snowmobile we want to get back up in here and have a good time enjoy the scenery somebody comes up here and leaves this kind of mess you know I'm going to clean it up here I've got a they left the garbage bag I've got one in my pack that I use any way for a emergency bivvy if I need to but I'm going to clean it up I'll stack up the Lord I'm not gonna carry it out it's about a mile about a mile and a half from here back to the trailhead so I'll leave it here off the road and the wood and stack it up and I'll carry the garbage out with me I'm telling you what you know if you come on up into the end of the wilderness or whatever you know you know if you can pack stuff in you know all this kind of stuff your hot chocolates or coffees or whatever and candies and food ramen noodles and whatever they actually else they got in here you know if you can pack that stuff in full I mean surely it's easier to pack out you know why leave it for somebody else you know this certainly can't stay here somebody's going to have to clean it up so I'll do it today so I guess is kind of my soapbox thing today if you bring this stuff in friggin carry it out okay you know don't leave a mess for somebody else and I'll spoil the beauty of the place you know now this is why we're trying to get away from civilization kind of get up here a little bit and just enjoy the scenery the weasels the deer the elk you know just the snow everything about it and you come on a you know a bunch of crap like this you know so I guess I better shut up for get too excited here but I don't know you know I just thought I make a video on it so when you're out there clean your dang mess up leave the leave the place decent when you leave you know try to leave a better than one you came at least leave it no worse yeah Julia my day cleaning up somebody else's mess

pretty good of them to leave it for us now you'll even leave using burner cardboard box Akemi tried to cover some of them with some wood it looks like look at that back there Little Miss ticks me off the more I see here when the process of cleaning up I found the sales receipt here for where a lot of this stuff was but from about 40 miles 40 45 miles north of here by the big city and got a name on there Rick and I'll have to give the dude a call that very there we are right there so now because of the goodness of these folks because of the goodness and courtesy of these folks I get to hug it to pack all this mess out of here I'm going to have a great day still happy that I found this stuff and somebody else will have to see it I got got most the fire cleaned up all just charcoal junk down in there over here the Forest Service head had a woodpile started from when they did some tree trimming last year so I just kind of threw this all in with the woodpile from the Forest Service so maybe we get some use out of it but anyway once again clean your own mess up bottom line man when you're out clean your own damn mess up so I don't have to do it or somebody else this is perry peacock with wilderness innovation with my little rant today how you're freaking trash out with you when you go somewhere right take care and have a nice day bye

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