Reminder to Pick up Yo Shit

325racer · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:58 am

I'm sure it was nobody from here and most likely one over the ever increasing number of spandex wearing riders in Calaveras.

Pick up your own garbage!!!!!!! I picked up a used Gu Pack at a popular wall crossing yesterday.

Just remember to keep the trails clean and leave no trash behind.

his highness · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:33 am

lycra fhaggggs...nuff said.

random walk · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:38 am

Right, like we slobs in baggies never do that.

TrailBurner · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:48 am

I'm always finding empty water bottles and little plastic bags full of dog crap on my trails. Those aren't from bikers and no, I am not hauling someone else's dog crap away.

bankerboy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:55 am

The dog poop bags kill me. If a dog craps and you leave it out (not condoning it) then is will degrade over time. If you bag it and leave it, it will be there forever and be a blight. When I take mine out, she loves to crap first chance she gets once she is off the leash. I bag it and ride with it over to the park where there are trash cans and throw it in. Too much work to carry it? Too bad! Your dog, your responsibility.

I find beer cans, sparklet's type waterbottles and food wrappers out there all the time. Time to bring the big guy back.

and this concept

his highness · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:03 am

random walk wrote:

Right, like we slobs in baggies never do that.

i've personally never seen a guy/gal with a long travel bike toss shit out on the trail...honestly.
if you have, maybe you need to reconsider your specific riding partners....

Dirtrider · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:08 am

bankerboy wrote:

When I take mine out, she loves to crap first chance she gets once she is off the leash.

That's called "the miracle mile". Most pets do the same within the first mile of the trail.

OldDogDan · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:36 pm

Yeah, that's another reason it's so nice to immediately get beyond the trailhead areas! As for the slobs, it is true they come in all kinds. And mentally, the words slob & baggy seem to go together more than slob & spandex. A lot of the colorful spandex wearers seem quite the opposite of slobs, very fastidious about their bikes & kit in fact. But my personal observation is in fact that those guys are more often guilty of littering than the baggy-wearing crowd. I abhor stereotyping, yet there may be a few reasons: they're focused on speed and competition, seeing it as a race training course, not as a scenic trail; they carry the disposable performance packets instead of a snack in a ziplock; focus on lightweight means no extra room for snacks & trash; and spandex ain't got no damn pockets.

(Edit: I take that last one back; those jerseys have the rear pockets. So that's one less excuse.)

random walk · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:37 pm

his highness wrote:

random walk wrote:

Right, like we slobs in baggies never do that.

i've personally never seen a guy/gal with a long travel bike toss shit out on the trail...honestly.
if you have, maybe you need to reconsider your specific riding partners....

I've never seen *any* rider leave shit on the trail, intentionally or otherwise.

I was just commenting on the assumption that it was a particular class of rider. Or that it was a MTBer at all, for that matter.

edit: What ODD said.

random walk · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:44 pm

Dirtrider wrote:

bankerboy wrote:

When I take mine out, she loves to crap first chance she gets once she is off the leash.

That's called "the miracle mile". Most pets do the same within the first mile of the trail.

Mine usually can't make it 100 yards, but since I'm too lazy to run the bag back to the TH trash cans I end up carrying it 3-4 miles.

Canaan · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:56 pm

random walk wrote:

Dirtrider wrote:

bankerboy wrote:

When I take mine out, she loves to crap first chance she gets once she is off the leash.

That's called "the miracle mile". Most pets do the same within the first mile of the trail.

Mine usually can't make it 100 yards, but since I'm too lazy to run the bag back to the TH trash cans I end up carrying it 3-4 miles.

Unfortunately, mine won't drop a deuce anywhere but my backyard. My wife usually walks the dog, and guess whose job it is to keep the back yard clean.

his highness · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:59 pm

random walk wrote:

Dirtrider wrote:

bankerboy wrote:

When I take mine out, she loves to crap first chance she gets once she is off the leash.

That's called "the miracle mile". Most pets do the same within the first mile of the trail.

Mine usually can't make it 100 yards, but since I'm too lazy to run the bag back to the TH trash cans I end up carrying it 3-4 miles.

and i the only one that just buries it?

Step1- dog shits in middle of trail...just as everyone is looking at you
2- pick up good sized stick and dig 3-4" hole in dirt (off to side of trail of course)
3- place dog shit in hole and cover hole up
4- pat yourself on back for having fertilized the ground for some future plant species

why add to the landfill...plus plastic bags are supposedly worse for the environment than water bottles...

Quote:

The state of California spends about 25 million dollars sending plastic bags to landfill each year, and another 8.5 million dollars to remove littered bags from streets.[6]

Every year, Americans use approximately 102.1 billion plastic bags, creating tons of landfill waste.

Plastic bags do not biodegrade. Light breaks them down into smaller and smaller particles that contaminate the soil and water and are expensive and difficult to remove.6

Less than 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled each year. Recycling one ton of plastic bags costs $4,000. The recycled product can be sold for $32.6

When the small particles from photodegraded plastic bags get into the water, they are ingested by filter feeding marine animals. Biotoxins like PCBs that are in the particles are then passed up the food chain, including up to humans.[7]

The City of San Francisco determined that it costs 17 cents for them to handle each discarded bag. 7

http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

fuse · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:19 pm

I used to bury it, but my neighbors didn't like me digging up their lawns.

random walk · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:22 pm

his highness wrote:

and i the only one that just buries it?

Not a bad idea at all.

fuse, lol.

Ld00d · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:57 pm

what about these people leaving beer everywhere? in poison oak-thick tributaries and near rocks shaped like an intergluteal cleft?

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