>>2868726 Tbh you have much bigger problems than that in the pnw. I've never seen so much human shit in my life, always right next to the trail or the parking lot.
>>2868356 You would hate my back garden, broski. Nothin' but food scraps. Great for the soil. Not even traditionally composting, I just throw veggies and fruits and eggs and such back there.
I had 20+ gourds grow out of the old food patch last year. The vines grew so large that they actually hung off of the neighbors bush-fence like grapes.
>>2868356 zero fucks given about this if they throw it 50 feet off the trail, but I keep seeing pajeets just dumping it at their feet on the good lunch rocks.
>>2868784 Why do they dump it right next to the trail? For that matter, why do they shit next to the trail, especially when there are accessible pit toilets in line of sight? I've seen shit and wads of toilet paper maybe twenty yards from a bathroom.
>>2868733 Same, every now and then I designate a spot in the garden where peels, scraps and leaves go, after it starts piling up a bit I choose a different spot. Garden is happy, the soil is full of life. Occasionally a potato plant sprouts from potato peelings and I just leave it to grow usually and harvest when it's big enough. It's a fun surprise.
I never had issue with seeing food on trails until I went to Georgia and experience a trail that was basically littered with orange peels and wrappers. You even had to pay to park at this place which really made me wonder what the fuck my money was going towards. Never seen a trail as bad as this one tho and I wasn't even 10 minutes from the trailhead before i started seeing it.
>>2869820 See the problem here is like 98% of your average hikers aren't hiking in the glacial wastes. They hike in established forest/plains/scrubland etc trails. Sure, some hike mountains and taiga with permafrost, but most of those people aren't bringing fresh food. So the act of food litter is even lower in those places. Look at Everest for example. It's not food waste there, it's mostly dead bodies and plastic tents/clothes that never break down.
Tl;dr: The problem isn't as big as you think it is in the area you're describing.
toilet paper everywhere is much worse, or people that put their dogs' eggs in the bags and then hang the bang from a tree. how does that make sense in their head?
>>2870309 Diff anon here. Been doing the same for years. Never had a rat or mice problem. We have lots of neighborhood cats too. So not really a problem.
>>2870309 I have never seen a rat or mouse in my scrap food areas, and I spend a lot of time out there. Funnily enough, I have seen mice near the businesses in town. But not my little patch.