Re: [Paddlewise] Saturation Point

In a message dated 9/26/99 6:28:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Outfit3029_at_aol.com writes:

<< How about this, anyone who litters (feces or other trash) is 
 made to pick up litter (feces or other trash).  People need to be educated 
as 
 to the proper and expected behaviors and then held accountable.  This would 
 be easy in a watertrail situation as people could be educated prior to 
 securing a permit and provided with a sanitary disposal site at the end of 
 the trip.<<

This is evidence of the problem (packing out biodegradable waste is a waste) 
I can see it on river systems but not the wild ocean coast, I will Sea kayak 
somewhere else. 
 >> On the subject of permitting.  No block permits.  I resent it 
tremendously 
 when I can't get three permits for an overnight trip because a large 
 outfitter blocked out twenty spots six months earlier on the speculation 
that 
 he could sell the positions.  >>

Yes, The real problem, not individual sea kayakers, but venders (some former 
human beings). I know some outfiter/instructors, some I think of as friends 
but they want you to pay for things you normally share for free. They are not 
like the rest of us. The desire to make a living from Kayaking means they 
have to think money when you think sharing.
The San Juan Island problem is not sea kayakers but the land boom on shore. 
Every bay and point has an obnoxious over sized house. 
The Washington coast is self limiting, it intimidates or "Darwin's out" the 
clueless sea kayaker. Backpackers who hike the coastal trail out number 
kayakers twenty to one. Locals who want easy access endanger the isolation.

  An  area should not be called a wilderness if it requirers permits and 
imposes restrictions, its should be called a Preserve.
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