Monthly Archives: December 2015

Full beer cans are heavy but people carry them in anyway.  Empty cans weigh almost nothing and take up little space, yet are typically left behind.  No worries — somebody else will pick them up.      

Crew restored a campsite out of control today.  Whole trees had been laid across the fire ring.  A site similar to this started the 2013 Table Rock Fire, when an abandoned campfire climbed over the stones and along an oversized log.  

Members of Wild South, US Forest Service Grandfather District, and North Carolina Outward Bound School lined a section of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail with stones today to keep hikers from damaging fragile trailside habitat. (Photos: Lisa Jennings)