Teach Backcountry Navigation with this one easy trick!

[WTFJohn]

Do you want to help teach backcountry navigation to other users in the woods? Pull flagging tape when you see it. I pulled pocket fulls across three miles of thick timber last weekend. If you need to use it to blood trail, pick it up. If you need to use to help a buddy navigate in, have him pull it. If you need it to get to your spot, learn to navigate without littering.

There is no excuse to leave this much litter scattered across the forest. Pack it in, pack it out.

 

[justinspicher]

Sometimes fire crews and timber crews have that up for boundaries and such.

 

[WTFJohn]

Sometimes fire crews and timber crews have that up for boundaries and such.

None of that going on in this area recently (or upcoming timber sales), flagging also extended into a wilderness area. The timber sales around here lately have all been paint marked.

 

[Yoder]

I do that all the time. Around here they paint the trees when they do a cut. It's only hunters littering. Something else that's fun, taking the ladders off of illegal ladder stands on public land.

 

[ReaptheHeat]

None of that going on in this area recently (or upcoming timber sales). The timber sales around here lately have all been paint marked.

Where did you pull it? Just curious.

 

[Burnsie]

Isn't that stuff supposed to be biodegradable?

 

[cb2176]

Ehh

 

[LongWayAround]

Isn't that stuff supposed to be biodegradable?

I have put out hundreds of rolls of flagging for work. It lasts a long time.

I'm not sure the cheaper stuff that most people probably carry degrades any faster than a plastic grocery sack.

 

[LongWayAround]

@WTFJohn

Good on you. I hate seeing that stuff everywhere and routinely pull it also.

 

[wyogoat]

Ehh

Profound…let’s elaborate.

 

[Runwilderness]

I feel similarly about people who opt for a helium filled Mylar balloon on the roadside to help their friends and family find a group RV site. Seems great…until I’m hiking out of my way to pull your trash from the backcountry where the lost balloon settled.

 

[WTFJohn]

Where did you pull it? Just curious.

In the woods. PM inbound.

I feel similarly about people who opt for a helium filled Mylar balloon on the roadside to help their friends and family find a group RV site. Seems great…until I’m hiking out of my way to pull your trash from the backcountry where the lost balloon settled.

Don't worry, I picked up two mylar balloons as well. People suck.

 

[wyogoat]

I feel similarly about people who opt for a helium filled Mylar balloon on the roadside to help their friends and family find a group RV site. Seems great…until I’m hiking out of my way to pull your trash from the backcountry where the lost balloon settled.

I picked up three this year in Wyoming Wilderness and I generally find at least one a year. How?

 

[butcherboy]

I carry flagging tape with me but really only use it to mark location of where the animal was when I shot it. When I’m done I always take it down and carry it out. I actuallly prefer to use toilet paper to flag a blood trail when needed and that’s only to mark the last spot of blood or maybe the line where the animal walked/ran.

 

[kylem]

I picked up three this year in Wyoming Wilderness and I generally find at least one a year. How?

I wish I only found one a year…. One area I hunt I’d say I average more than one a weekend.