How Do You Leave No Trace When Camping?
“Hi, this is John Stewart, and this is how to practice leave no trace out on a weekend camping trip. After you’re out there having a good time, you always want to respect nature and others that’s coming behind you. This is what we call leave no trace. What you carry in, you want to carry it back out. This includes trash, waste, food scraps; anything like that. Don’t try and burn your trash, aluminum cans, plastic wrappers. It’s going to leave residue. It’s not going to completely burn off, so just take and pack all that stuff out. Take a trash bag, put it right in the bottom of your pack; you don’t have to worry about it, okay? If you build a fire, you always want to take and bury your ashes, okay? Bury them; make it look like you never had a fire there. If you take and rolled a log somewhere, try and roll that log back. You always want to leave everything just like it was before. If you go to the bathroom, dig a hole; bury your waste, okay? Don’t just go use the bathroom in some rando