Read your permit!

” Whenever I go into the Wilderness, I find very little trash.  The last time I was in the Enchantments was a few years ago, but I doubt it’s suddenly worse.”

.Paradise under pressure: The Enchantments buckling under trash, waste and overcrowding .

Okay, that’s a pretty convincing video.  Those are big bags of trash.  It seems to be much worse just recently.  My skepticism is overcome.

On the video they say it’s gone viral on tictok.  Many people that are not familiar with wilderness hiking and LNT are going there now.    That would make sense.

Another area like that is the beach of the Olympic Peninsula.  Lots of people that aren’t familiar with wilderness protocol.  Lots of trash.  At Strawberry Point there are just piles of poop and toilet paper.  Plus, there’s lots of trash that washes up from the ocean.  I still love going there but it’s tough overlooking the trash.