I know that I am good at complaining. Real good at it. Can I be good at coming up with a solution, something to turn this around to a positive?
I had a talk with our National Forest Supervisor mid summer. The number of visitors was up over three fold. A survey suggested that over a third of visitors had never been into the mountains or really "outside" before in their lives. The Forest's response was to produce a series of videos posted to social media on the basics such as please just pick up after yourselves.
I don't do much social media - facebook, tweeter, instantgram, whatever else is out there - is foreign territory so I've not seen them. I hope they were even a little bit successful. But I was impressed an effort was made.
So what can we do? Can we make a difference?
I do think about this.
A start is to model good behavior, be excellent examples to follow. We try our best at this. Help others when they need it. Be kind and respectful.
We try to remember the way to climb a huge mountain is one small step at a time.
What else can we do? Ideas?