Leave No Trace Ethics for light and fast backpacking and mountaineering

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The seven principles of Leave-No-Trace

Seven Leave No Trace Principles of outdoor ethics form the framework of the Leave No Trace message:

Plan Ahead and Prepare

Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces

Dispose of Waste Properly

Leave What You Find

Minimize Campfire Impacts

Respect Wildlife

Be Considerate of Other Visitors

Plan Ahead and Prepare

	Know the regulations and special concerns for the area you'll visit.
	Prepare for extreme weather, hazards, and emergencies.
	Schedule your trip to avoid times of high use.
	Visit in small groups. Split larger parties into groups of 4-6.
	Repackage food to minimize waste.
	Use a map and compass to eliminate the use of marking paint, rock cairns or flagging.

Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces

Durable surfaces include established trails and campsites, rock, gravel, dry grasses or snow.

Protect riparian areas by camping at least 200 feet from lakes and streams.

Good campsites are found, not made. Altering a site is not necessary.
In popular areas:

	Concentrate use on existing trails and campsites.
	Walk single file in the middle of the trail, even when wet or muddy.
	Keep campsites small. Focus activity in areas where vegetation is absent.

In pristine areas:

	Disperse use to prevent the creation of campsites and trails.
	Avoid places where impacts are just beginning.

Dispose of Waste Properly

	Pack it in, pack it out. Inspect your campsite and rest areas for trash or spilled foods. Pack out all trash, leftover food, and litter.
	Deposit solid human waste in catholes dug 6 to 8 inches deep at least 200 feet from water, camp, and trails. Cover and disguise the cathole when finished.
	Pack out toilet paper and hygiene products.
	To wash yourself or your dishes, carry water 200 feet away from streams or lakes and use small amounts of biodegradable soap. Scatter strained dishwater.

Leave What You Find

	Preserve the past: examine, but do not touch, cultural or historic structures and artifacts.
	Leave rocks, plants and other natural objects as you find them.
	Avoid introducing or transporting non-native species.
	Do not build structures, furniture, or dig trenches.

Minimize Campfire Impacts

	Campfires can cause lasting impacts to the backcountry. Use a lightweight stove for cooking and enjoy a candle lantern for light.
	Where fires are permitted, use established fire rings, fire pans, or mound fires.
	Keep fires small. Only use sticks from the ground that can be broken by hand.
	Burn all wood and coals to ash, put out campfires completely, then scatter cool ashes.

Respect Wildlife

	Observe wildlife from a distance. Do not follow or approach them.
	Never feed animals. Feeding wildlife damages their health, alters natural behaviors, and exposes them to predators and other dangers.
	Protect wildlife and your food by storing rations and trash securely.
	Control pets at all times, or leave them at home.
	Avoid wildlife during sensitive times: mating, nesting, raising young, or winter.

Be Considerate of Other Visitors

	Respect other visitors and protect the quality of their experience.
	Be courteous. Yield to other users on the trail.
	Step to the downhill side of the trail when encountering pack stock.
	Take breaks and camp away from trails and other visitors.
	Let nature's sounds prevail. Avoid loud voices and noises.

ENVIRONMENTAL
Photos of Central Oregon from an ultralight aircraft
Weather Spotting during an Oklahoma spring
ONDA's Wilderness inventory of BLM area near Juntura in eastern Oregon
USFS Five Buttes Healthy Forest fire reduction program in Central Oregon
Bob McGown, AAC Section Chair, builds a telescope pad at Pine Mountain Observatory
Becoming an Outdoors Woman classes in LaPine, Oregon with the ODFW
Pulling barbed wire fence at the Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge with ONDA
A tour of the aftermath of the B & B forest fire with the Sierra Club
Adopt-a-Road with TraditionalMountaineering
The Bend Bicycle Festival 2004
Wolves introduced to the High Desert Museum
Twenty old growth Juniper stolen from The Badlands WSA More information
A sustainable way to use feathers to adorn my lady
ODFW clinic - Becoming an Outdoors Woman
Dutch Oven cooking at GI Joes parking lot in Bend Oregon
President Bush holds photo opportunities
Trail Crew builds a log bridge over Spring Creek
Sierra Club holds a Christmas party
Tour fire ravaged Davis Lake
IMBA helps COTA build trails
South Sister climbers trail relocated
President Bush hopes no child will be left behind
Adopt-A-Highway with TraditionalMountaineering
Department of Inferior dumps wilderness protection
An ODFW juvenile steelhead sampling project near John Day, Oregon
The ODFW juvenile steelhead survey in the stream
Owyhee Canyon wilderness study area in south east Oregon
ONDA's Owyhee wilderness inventory camp near Rome, Oregon
Touring The Badlands with ONDA
Riverfest river cleanup in Bend Oregon
USFS Mud Bog poster
A Pay to Play bust
President Bush reassures us that SUVs do not damage the environment!
President Bush overlooking the environment
Al Gore and his young son summit Mt. Rainier
Fee Demo demonstration in Central Oregon

CASCADES SUMMITS
Photos of a South Sister snow-climb in June 2006
Photos of Central Oregon from an ultralight aircraft
Views of the Oregon Cascades in the summer and fall
Views of the Cascades from the ridge above Three Creek Lake
Summits of the Oregon Cascades from Tumalo Mountain in February 2005
A snowshoe summit of Vista Butte off Cascades Lakes Highway near Bend, OR
Mt. Bachelor, the Three Sisters and Broken Top
Photos of the Three Sisters Wilderness Summits form Sparks Lake
Geocaching the Top of Black Crater
Overlooking the Three Sisters from Mt. Bachelor
Three Sisters summits
Scott shares his summits of Middle Sister and Mt. Thielsen

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