No Dumping

Apparently it was going to be an amazing day:  I managed to get to the hill nice and early, the sun was shining brightly through a clear blue sky, and fresh snow from the day before meant primo slope conditions.

"Nothing could possibly bother me today," I thought as I loaded the chairlift, eagerly scoping out the first laps of the day.

With falcon-like focus I zoned in on any powder patches left untouched.  Maybe I'll spin that roller, or that looks like a good place to lay out a method;  I see a stump that I might jib, but suddenly I'm distracted...

The piece of shit on the chair ahead of me just chucked his beer can into the forest--threw trash on my favorite place to play--and now I'm just fucking pissed off!

This wasn't the first time I got to bare witness to such a display of human douschebag-ery, and I'm sure it won't be the last.  Let me just say I tolerate my fair share of bullshit, but I'm not about to put up with an overprivileged city dwelling asshole treating his local mountain like the room in his parents' basement.

Forget that fact that resorts always place trash cans at bottom and top of every lift, but the ones with lower snow levels like Snow Summit are even sympathetic to the cause.  Ok, we all know throwing things off of high places is fun, so they put groups of "trash targets" up the lift line for us to exercise our inner 8-year-old.

So what kind of person goes out of their way to skip those? How can you really want to litter that much?

I'm just happy resorts continue their efforts to gather literally tons of trash off the hill at the end of each season.  They could have the same shitty attitude about things, and then we could just skip the mountains altogether, strap in at our local dump and shred garbage.

We snowboard to escape.  Put me out in the middle of nature, the great outdoors, with nothing but trees and fresh air in every direction.  Here is my way out of life's daily grind; complete serenity covered in a blanket of pure white.

Littering has no place in my image of snowboarding.