Crap/junk you have found in the back country?

[Tom_H]

Back in the 70s the USFS rangers in Uncompaghre NF (now a wilderness area) would go in with mules and carry out junk if you found and properly bagged it, so on our guided trips we'd do eco projects as part of teaching about wilderness conservation, e.g. cleanup of old elk hunters' and shepherds' camps. I remember on one trip I was leading we found a single low brush type cedar or juniper. We pulled out enough rusty old cans hidden beneath the brush boughs to fill up six 55 gallon trash bags.

[RoguePhotonic]

Same thing for me with the Shasta Cola. I never knew that brand was so old.




Of course I have found cans and bottles of all types. Plenty of can dumps if you look around. Most of the time they aren't that interesting because nothing can be read on them but every once in awhile you do find something like that.

At Tunemah Lake I looked into a crack between a rock and found an old spam can with the old style twist tool to peel the lid off. I could read the ingredients and all it said was chopped pork shoulder, salt, spices. I was thinking hell nothing wrong with that. Not the mystery meat you might think it was. Of course it's not as good anymore.

In America it's pretty much a felony to reuse any protect. Or to use it in a way not a described. I like how they used to actually print it on glass bottles way back. I have found more than one really nice looking glass bottles that made a big point of being printed near the top that it's a violation of federal law to reuse this bottle.

[WarrenFork]

I remember seeing Shasta cans like the first one pictured as a kid but the "DO NOT FREEZE" on your cola can is new to me. According to a collector's site I just browsed, that dates it to the late 1950's. Someone on eBay has a set of three cans like that in similar rusty condition with a buy-it-now price of $60.00.

[RoguePhotonic]

Yeah I figured they had collectors value but I left them where I found them which was at the small lake in the middle of Red Rock Basin.

[Cross Country]

I'm surprised that no one ever found a chair nor a rubber raft.

[rlown]

I'm surprised that no one ever found a chair nor a rubber raft.

We did. They weren't junk. we used the two chairs and two rafts at Lillian. We even politely repacked them in the large Rubbermaid container and put them back after we were done, with a friendly thank-you note.

[RoguePhotonic]

I found a chair at the Graveyard Lakes. I used it.

[Shhsgirl]

Near a lake (I forget the name) in Desolation a few years ago my husband and I found someone's marijuana in a nice plastic container. Then we found his/her teeth in another one. Must have been pretty stoned to forget his teeth.

[Jimr]

I think I know that guy

[Cross Country]

At the lake below Eagle Scout Peak Mike and I found a grill for cooking fish. That really came in handy.