Cold beers on the approach to looking glass

Stashed 3 PBRs on the approach to the north side of looking glass on 5\1. We ended up hiking out a different way so as far as I know they are still sitting in the creek just to the left of the trail if you are hiking in to the cliff. Assuming some thirsty bears haven't gotten to them first

So instead of hiking 200 yards back down the hill from the parking lot, you decided littering a creek in a National Forest and posting on MP was the best option?

If I can get 3 people, that haven't slept for over 24 hours and were rolling on meth and spice, to pick up an empty case of beers and carry them out, you should've been able to get yours.

mikeinvt wrote:Stashed 3 PBRs on the approach to the north side of looking glass on 5\1. We ended up hiking out a different way so as far as I know they are still sitting in the creek just to the left of the trail if you are hiking in to the cliff. Assuming some thirsty bears haven't gotten to them first

Wow, really? Why would you think this was appropriate?

Sounds like free crag beers to me

Not cool man. Especially because you littered in a water source.

grog m wrote:Not cool man. Especially because you littered in a water source.

hall monitor

It's OK. PBR is 99% water anyway.

Andrewww wrote:Sounds like free crag beers to me

+1
one should be grateful

How's the view from atop the high-horse? You all get wifi up there?

I have never been mad about finding full beers... Empties really piss me off.

Alan12878 wrote:How's the view from atop the high-horse? You all get wifi up there?

Lol what high horse?

Mike clearly littered and was too lazy to hike 200 yards to go pick up his trash and thought posting it on an online forum was a better idea. Don't be an idiot in the future and people won't chastise you, simple enough.

NC is the greenest state I've been in, they love their mountains as for lttering the fine is 1500 bucks and they do enforce it that's why it's so clean, guess that's how they do it in VT smh...

Alan12878 wrote:How's the view from atop the high-horse? You all get wifi up there?

All these people on their high horses against blatant littering in a national forest, how dare they!

I bet the Cletus and Jethro that find and drink them won't consider them litter.

If he'd hiked a couple hollers over, he could have skipped the water masquerading as beer (PBR is like sex in a canoe: It's fucking close to water) and went straight to Uncle Percy's still for some good ol North Cackalacky homemade white lightning corn liquor.

yesrodcire wrote: All these people on their high horses against blatant littering in a national forest, how dare they!

It's not necessarily HOW dare they, but rather WHY dare they? While I think that it is obvious that it would have been more acceptable to return to pick up the beers, there is a clear difference between items littered behind with no intent of picking them up, and "stashed" items that were left with the intent of being retrieved. This dude made the wrong call for reasons that were all his. Then he made steps to rectify the situation by making arrangements for the stashed-not-trashed beers to be removed from said National Forest. People know where the beers are, people like beers, they will be removed. Problem over in a matter of days.
The high-horsing around comes in when people jump down this guy's keyboard telling him what a dipshit he is for trying to clean up his literal and figurative mess. He knows he made a mistake, he is acting to reverse it.
I'm mostly upset because this has made me climb up on MY high-horse to tell everyone how much I disapprove of your petty litter-bashing in a situation where "litter" is only used in the most literal sense of the term, and the problem is pretty much taken care of. Saying anything and sounding like an authority or a self-proclaimed Protector of whatever it is that you think is the "right" way is more important than just quietly acknowledging at home where nobody knows what you are thinking while the problem goes away. None of this was necessary. Every post doesn't need a comment. Not everybody wants to hear your thoughts on every thread. I'm not directing this at anyone more than myself at this point. I just hate online forums.
See how high I climbed onto MY horse? I can barely see from up here!....and the cloud of hypocrisy is getting thicker!

Michael.P wrote: I don't know if you missed the point but you definitely missed this easy pun.

If it had been a lake instead of a creek, there was another one crying out for pun making, "littoral".

I probably live closer than anyone to this insult to the environment, so I guess remediation falls on me. I’ll try to get up there by the end of today- hopefully before any more polar bears die. Cletis, my neighbor from up the holler will go along to help drink the beer. (btw, if Cletis could spell, he’d be pretty pissed someone upthread misspelled his name). We’ll toss the empties far enough off the trail that no one will ever see them. Problem solved.

Hey, so, how can we tell if beers in creeks are abandoned booty, or if they're project permabeers that we need to leave for the next person?

Since when do sport climbers go to the North Face of Looking Glass. Trad climbers would have consumed those beers while hiking up the trail.

Flasks of whiskey is the way to go