Firepit, etc. So what's so special about this picture?? It's that at some point the rabid environmentalists managed to get our illustrious government to declare this a 'wild and scenic' river. Wild and scenic it is. But what that means in the translation, among other things, is that you have to carry out so-called 'human waste', and you have to use a 'fire pan' or a 'fire blanket' to have a campfire (at risk of a big fat citation if you don't comply). Note, cleverly, in the picture above, the firepit that has been there for the 20 or so years I have been coming here. So does this mean that if 'Joe Ranger' and his big fat ticket book, happens to come along at the same time I am here, that he will give me a citation for the firepit that I did not build, and that has been here since well before I was coming in here?? What bloody nonsense!! (Incidentally, what backpacker has the room for a firepan or fireblanket, among his other essentials!)

Never have been able to resist flower or vegetation pictures. Very hard to screw up beauty like this.