I've come to a kind of moral obstacle here.

One of my favorite places to hike has a few miles of hiking along beautiful, glacial-carved clifftops, with wonderful views of the country valley below. I mostly spend my time day hiking there, but I have spent a couple nights up there as well.

Anyway, because the hiking trails are so close to civilization, many of the cliffs are littered with graffiti. None of it's artistic. It's mostly names and dumb phrases. Someone even thought it'd be appropriate to grace the stone with a large, "420".

I'd love to see this graffiti gone. Since carrying a generator, compressor, and sandblaster up the mountain is impractical, I've considered some other options. I could build cairns over some of the more offensive pieces. Non-permanent, kind of natural looking, and much less intrusive than the graffiti. Not a bad solution, but it'd be silly to build a couple hundred of them.

Then there's stone-colored spraypaint. Assuming that I could match the color, it might work pretty well. But I wonder if that would make me as bad as the other "artists". Not to mention the negative impact on the environment that a dozen cans of spraypaint could have.

Anyway, I'm not exactly the activist type and I'm not sure I would do anything, but I'm definitely thinking about it. Has anyone ever considered anything similar before?