I agree with you but I fear it is a lost cause.

In addition to the horse packers, there are the self-discovery/wilderness education operations like NOLS and Outward Bound, the "hoods in the woods" boot camp programs, the goat and llama packers, mountaineering guide services, float trips, guided hunting trips and, at least in the Southwest, cattle ranchers who have their grazing rights grandfathered into many SW wilderness areas. I comfort myself with the thought that most of these businesses are just as interested in keeping our wild areas as wilderness as I am. I just wish more of them would clean up their own messes.

I think that a lot of the packers in the Sierra do a pretty good job of cleanup; the biggest garbage dump I have come across was left by an Outward Bound group in the North Cascades. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />