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Page A—38 Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 Trail: A summer full of memories, espite COVID—19 ‘ continued from page A-37 In this particular memory, Nico— lette’s hands are pouring water from DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL My final summer memory is of the trail you take to Lower Jorsted Falls. Again, back in May, we visited the (Ii a hiker’s canteen, pouring it directly falls, only to be shocked by the sheer » hi on the fire ring, which, as it turns scale of trash and destruction. Some- CO out, was still hot and red deep in its one was attempting to live back there, l 10. center. We had, taken our lunch break chopping small alders and building ' ca barely 30 feet from the still—hot fire a stick house. This person or persons S pit, and were all leaving to continue had dragged in a bathtub, toilet seat, a: our TrashMashl until someone kicked carpets, ropes, tarps, cooking tools and the embers as they walked by, send- water jugs. ing up a plume of gray smoke, and I later heard a story about someone p6 sending me into minor shock. I knew, and that the person was his pc Welcome, young ranger, I was brother, who had snapped a bit when a! thinking as I watched her and two of the novel coronavirus started, think— at our team make a trip back to the river ing the world was coming to an end. al to refill water bottles and douse the S0 at the end of September, for i spot repeatedly and pack it with dirt. our last TrashMashl, we went in and r I was a bitembarrassed on behalf cleaned up the trail. We had only six of all campers thatday. Practically people,‘all in our 605 or older. But we “n her first day on the job and Nicolette’s got every bit of garbage out of there, putting out her own fire in Mason and then shared a long and special l ‘ County. moment to admire Lower J orsted a HOW‘W”, my embarrasslnent Lower Jorsted Falls tumbles feet into a shallow punchbowl. In summer, Fails' , ” 500’} Shlfted to anger and dlsg‘mt as the large rock at the lip of the falls provides a warm, sunny place for a pic- What do 3:?“ thmk? I asked my an we mspected and cleaned up more nic lunch photo WoytOWI-Ch thter Posse. Should I pub11c1ze how i in camps1tes along the river. Thanks to to find these falls?” COVID-19 and most indooractivities arrived at a large party of local high bottles as they stumbled about. “No way,” said Jim, then Tom, then ta being canceled, the area had clearly school graduates, the kind of gather- To make a long story short, a few Jean and David, E . suffered through the worst summer ing where the guys fall over and the weeks ago George and I returned to “No way,” '11} of use it had ever seen. The Hamma girls throw up. (Wait, didn’t I promise the scene of the crime, for I needed to Wow, That’s where I stand today. i p Hamma was one big outdoor toilet — some uplifting images?) See hOW much work and hOW many I am hearing from so many that, as i in a toilet that didn’t flush. Well, in being frankly honest -— pounds of trash I’d be hauling the of 2020, too much beauty in too many [ 1 My friend Chuck found two large though still not naming the particular next day with my Dow Mountain hands just mightbe too much of a Igloo coolers that had been turned high school they were from — this TrashMashl Litter Posse. good thing. ' in into latrines. In other spots, toilet pa- was a big, damn-the-masks beer-fest The garbage was gone. The site i a] per covered the ground like a confetti of a college freshman party. Tents was clean. We went to other party I Mark Woytowich is a writer, pho- ’ parade. and tarps were hastily set up; they, spots on the mountain. Same spotless tographer, video producer and author pl too, I believed, would soon be falling picture. Some angelic person or per; of “Where Waterfalls and Wild Things 1 10 HUMAN DIFFERENCE over. Beer cans and bottles littered sons had taken all the trash off Dow Are.” He lives in Potlatch with his “0n 3 There’s good news to balance my the ground. Even the most sober kids Mountain. the Trail” column appearing every oth- 1i1 disturbing images. Back in June, seemed to be sliding off the deck of ' ' Whoever you are, oh sanitary er week in the Journal. Reach him at g S; George Stenberg and I went atop Dow a swaying ship and in the darkness saint, harps in heaven play music in his website, www.wherewaterfallsare. , fi‘ Mountain to shoot the sunset. We you could hear them kicking cans and your honor. com, or by email at eyefive@hctc.com. ; § 8’: l Get the best of both worlds nexTV and HCC smart WiFi are a perfect match. Brilliant H0 streaming TV powered by an intelligent, next gen home WiFi system on HCC's blazing fast fiber network. 360—898-2481 wwwhconet v Kitten Rescue of Mason County Right now we have young and adult cats available for adoption. 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