RE: [Paddlewise] "Tin" cans

From: Joseph Pylka <jpylka_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:50:41 -0500
> The best bet is to carry it out.  Burning the can then carrying it out
will help reduce the bulk and smell, especially if you are doing the "right
thing" with someone else's garbage a long way from civilization.  
> The days of "burn, bash and bury" are long gone.   "Burn, bash and CARRY"
is a better slogan.
>
  In this part of the NE a lot of outdoorsmen subscribe to the "Leave No
Trace" concept..  Basically, you carry everything out as well as minimize
your impact on the place you stopped at.  The Appalachian Mountain Club is
a strong supporter of the concept.  LNT also has a website with some of the
general tenets listed. I think it's something like www.lnt.org
  There are still places in the Catskills and in some of the Highlands
regions of NJ where you can still see traces of tent ditches.  That's a
practice that's been done away with some fifty years ago.

Joe P.
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