Worst pet peeve

I really hate it when I find graffiti and vandalism in the wilderness. It's really narcissistic and shows disrespect when you scratch your name and date in a wall. What if every hiker pecked their name into the rock? Really, who will recognize your name and truly care if you were there? Take a picture of the rock for crying out loud. Markings like that take away from the natural beauty of the rocks and their features. The sad part is, most graffiti is labeled as a "historic resource" after about fifty years. The "50 year rule" generally applies to all graffiti, trash, and anything else that is not native to the land. Ridiculous.

In this picture, Clyde, Joe, and Albert scrawled their names right over the native american pictographs. Dumb.

The Needles, Canyonlands. Mountains of untouched crypto. You don't find too much of this in Arches.

This is what I love: beautifully pristine wilderness with no sign that any other human being was there before you. I took this picture while backpacking with Ivy. Only a narrow trail led our way through the desert.