More campsite work

This time I was up at Maud Lake in the Desolation Wilderness. Desolation Wilderness Volunteers sent out a memo, asking for help in this location, and I was able to spend a could of days up there.

It's a lovely spot that gets a lot less traffic than Echo Lakes, but still sees its fair share of visitors, because it's also the access point for Rockbound Pass, which goes over the Crystal Range into Rockbound Creek and other destinations.

And yes, both the trail and the campsites needed some attention. There were six trees down across the trail, all of them outside the wilderness boundaries, so they wouldn't need hand-powered bucksaws to cut through them. And while a previous crew had done some nice work by putting huge boulders in campsites too close to water, energetic campers had then removed the rocks and debris from smaller nearby areas to create campsites with the same problem: too close to water.

Twenty feet from the water,

When you see a place that looks like a perfect campsite except for those rocks...maybe stop for a moment and think: Who would have put these rocks in such a nice campsite, and why?

Twelve feet from the water

Better yet, always camp in an existing campsite more than 100 feet from water. You know, like it says on your permit!