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Keeping the Wilderness Wild: Your Weekly Leave No Trace Tip
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By Taryn Eyton, happiestoutdoors.ca

Leave No Trace Principle #2: Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces. Concentrate
your impact on hardy surfaces like trails, rocks, snow and bare soil when you
camp and hike since that way you avoid damaging more fragile areas like meadows
and marshes. This week’s LNT tip for traveling on durable surfaces is to stay on
trail instead of cutting switchbacks or making wide detours around mud puddles.
This prevents trail erosion, trail braiding, and trail widening and concentrates
hiker impacts on the trail rather than extending them into the forest, marsh or
meadow.

Keeping the Wilderness Wild: Your Weekly Leave No Trace Tip

By Taryn Eyton happiestoutdoors.ca

Leave No Trace Principle #1: Plan Ahead and Prepare. Don’t just prepare for your
hike: prepare to Leave No Trace so that you can have a lesser impact on the land
and a safer hike. That way you are less likely to violate other Leave No Trace
principles due to ignorance or emergency. This week’s LNT tip for planning ahead
is to check the weather forecast for the area you plan to hike to make sure you
have the right clothing and equipment. Don’t forget that valley bottom forecasts
are not very accurate for mountain tops. If there is a nearby ski resort, check
the forecast high up on the mountain with a ski-specific weather forecasting
site like snow-forecast.com.