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trash on trails
As many know the trash is a problem worldwide. And cyclists or outdoor sports can be part of the problem or the solution depends on each one.
We must first clarify that no person in this world would like to pass a stranger and throw trash in your yard, well, the fields in which we practice sports (cycling, mountaineering, trekking, hiking, etc..) When private are someone else's yard and we have to treat them as our own backyard. But if the public fields or mountains are ... well ... it's our own playground and the mess we are fouling our own backyard.
If the fields are private and we are fortunate to get into them because the owner allows us, with more reason to take special care and leave no trace of our passage. Because the owner can easily take away access to this area.
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But if the field is public or mountain, we must also take care, maybe even more. Because this space is more delicate, has no control and turn serves as a reference when negotiating with government authorities or national parks. But if this place is damaged and deteriorated by athletes not only lose a place for sports, is also a weapon for the owners of fields, government and parks, since they can easily use this example to deny access to government land or private.
It is for this reason that the sport, no matter what, in the mountains have to happen if a trace by. It is common to see climbers camping areas filled with bottles of wine, hiking camping areas full of food waste (biodegradable) or cyclists crossing sites with energy bar wrappers, cameras, patches, and fruit peels ( biodegradable).
Now if they could bring bottles, cans, energy bars, etc, to the place, is difficult is to take their remains?.
And the biodegradable .... Without words, is the poorest excuse used today, like a fashion ecology, and composting, leave garbage because it is biodegradable and "do good to the earth." When it is actually more false excuse that can be invented, (all that do so well know that composting is not). The worst part is carried plants in the area. This is why leaving seeds of fruits such as oranges, apples etc. Growing trees that are not local damaging the local forest. The problem does not end there, in every place where there are humans there are rats, rats live a year, in the year come into heat once a month, and each litter can have eight to twelve young (while you are breastfeeding enters in heat again), if not well fed baby eats the litter, leaving alive only one (or none) but if well fed .... They live all. These new offspring within thirty days can be played starting a new cycle.
[PI=https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8247998/ size=l0 align=c][/PI]
It does not take a genius to realize. If you spend eighty cyclists or athletes, for a given location. Suppose that forty throw banana peels or fruits. The rats will get there. When you start to play in a month we will have twelve, and the next month and one hundred and forty mathematically. But if you have no food. The population is much reduced.
Are known places where there are so many rats that can not be camping, shelter pebbles way Frey (Bariloche), the hermit's cave in the Giants (Córdoba), the forest of tobacco plants in the gorge of condorito (Córdoba) the camping areas of Chalten (Santa Cruz), Great Falls National Park in Washington DC (now banned camping and biking), Yosemite National Park (now with very strict rules for permitted areas), La Jolla National Park in California (now banned camping, bicycling and remain in the park). It is also likely to happen in Australia and some parts of Europe.
Not to mention that after rats also eat the seeds of local trees, causing more damage, and also carry diseases that can be fatal to humans.
It is a problem that we have been creating since the Middle Ages (Black Death in Europe). It is time to learn the lesson.
Not throw more trash on the mountain, of any kind. Not just about protecting the environment or not to get private fields, it is taking care of our playgrounds. In order to continue practicing our sports and access much longer. It is our children and their future possibilities.[PI=https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8248005/ size=l0 align=c][/PI]http://www.freeridezone.com.ar
We must first clarify that no person in this world would like to pass a stranger and throw trash in your yard, well, the fields in which we practice sports (cycling, mountaineering, trekking, hiking, etc..) When private are someone else's yard and we have to treat them as our own backyard. But if the public fields or mountains are ... well ... it's our own playground and the mess we are fouling our own backyard.
If the fields are private and we are fortunate to get into them because the owner allows us, with more reason to take special care and leave no trace of our passage. Because the owner can easily take away access to this area.
[PI=https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8248004/ size=l0 align=c][/PI]
But if the field is public or mountain, we must also take care, maybe even more. Because this space is more delicate, has no control and turn serves as a reference when negotiating with government authorities or national parks. But if this place is damaged and deteriorated by athletes not only lose a place for sports, is also a weapon for the owners of fields, government and parks, since they can easily use this example to deny access to government land or private.
It is for this reason that the sport, no matter what, in the mountains have to happen if a trace by. It is common to see climbers camping areas filled with bottles of wine, hiking camping areas full of food waste (biodegradable) or cyclists crossing sites with energy bar wrappers, cameras, patches, and fruit peels ( biodegradable).
Now if they could bring bottles, cans, energy bars, etc, to the place, is difficult is to take their remains?.
And the biodegradable .... Without words, is the poorest excuse used today, like a fashion ecology, and composting, leave garbage because it is biodegradable and "do good to the earth." When it is actually more false excuse that can be invented, (all that do so well know that composting is not). The worst part is carried plants in the area. This is why leaving seeds of fruits such as oranges, apples etc. Growing trees that are not local damaging the local forest. The problem does not end there, in every place where there are humans there are rats, rats live a year, in the year come into heat once a month, and each litter can have eight to twelve young (while you are breastfeeding enters in heat again), if not well fed baby eats the litter, leaving alive only one (or none) but if well fed .... They live all. These new offspring within thirty days can be played starting a new cycle.
[PI=https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8247998/ size=l0 align=c][/PI]
It does not take a genius to realize. If you spend eighty cyclists or athletes, for a given location. Suppose that forty throw banana peels or fruits. The rats will get there. When you start to play in a month we will have twelve, and the next month and one hundred and forty mathematically. But if you have no food. The population is much reduced.
Are known places where there are so many rats that can not be camping, shelter pebbles way Frey (Bariloche), the hermit's cave in the Giants (Córdoba), the forest of tobacco plants in the gorge of condorito (Córdoba) the camping areas of Chalten (Santa Cruz), Great Falls National Park in Washington DC (now banned camping and biking), Yosemite National Park (now with very strict rules for permitted areas), La Jolla National Park in California (now banned camping, bicycling and remain in the park). It is also likely to happen in Australia and some parts of Europe.
Not to mention that after rats also eat the seeds of local trees, causing more damage, and also carry diseases that can be fatal to humans.
It is a problem that we have been creating since the Middle Ages (Black Death in Europe). It is time to learn the lesson.
Not throw more trash on the mountain, of any kind. Not just about protecting the environment or not to get private fields, it is taking care of our playgrounds. In order to continue practicing our sports and access much longer. It is our children and their future possibilities.[PI=https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8248005/ size=l0 align=c][/PI]http://www.freeridezone.com.ar
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