I just need to rant for a second and then I'll be done.
I was climbing at Left Flank with some friends this past weekend, and was just disgusted by the amount of cigarette butts I found. Luckily we were climbing around other decent climbers who helped us clean up the area we were at, but come on people. Go right ahead and risk the chance of lung cancer and other nasty side effects that come with smoking, but at least clean up after yourself! It's bad enough that I have to put up with second hand smoking, but to litter out in the gorge, that's just rude and insensitive. Is it really that hard to pick up your cigarette butt and throw it away later in a garbage can?
Yeah, the best was when a friend and I found a Hansel and Gretel trail of ciggie butts at Roadside- when we ran across the offender he was smoking and spewing about all the weekend warriors, buckeyes, flatlanders, etc. that are fucking up the Red and are the reasons for threatened access.
Irony at it's finest and shameful example of the entitlement displayed by some folks who are unfortunately local to the Red.
