Comments on: Trail Magic – Sodas, water caches and trash. Oh my!

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 22:07:47 +0000

In reply to Denise. Definitely changes the experience into more of a social one for sure.

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:54:42 +0000

I just got back from 5 nights in Kings Canyon.

2 horses and 3 mules were bringing up hundreds of lbs of supplies for a Hiker Spaghetti Feed in Vidette Meadow. 🙁

Walking thru miles of mule dung was just disgusting. And one of the girls on horseback said, “Be careful, this is a new horse”. Ummmm… okay. I suppose if it stepped on, bit, or knocked me off the trail (a thousand feet, into white water), it was my fault, as I’d been warned?

I get that the Rae Lakes Loop, PCT and JMT are no longer wilderness… but, the impact of a restaurant set up to feed hundreds of people in a meadow 13 miles from the trail head, in a National Park was really depressing. It was a sad way to end an otherwise fabulous trip.

By: Randy Martin

Randy Martin — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:24:03 +0000

Excellent article Paul. I especially like your suggestion to keep any aid near a road crossing or other infrastructure to avoid the impact to the wilderness experience that we are so often looking for in a through hike.