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written by taxinapothole , August 01, 2008 (10:45:34 PM)

Over the years, I have frequented this campground. Very bad!! Broken glass everywhere, including the water, where people want to swim, or launch their water crafts!!! This could be a wonderful site, but it has to be maintained on a regular basis. Garbage containers would be a good start, and then, just maybe, these idiots would stop putting their garbage in the outhouses!! Wow, common sense, isn't that common any more. We live in a world of self serving pigs!! Shame on all of you!!

Be proud of our recreational areas, and leave them neet and tidy for the next visitor

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written by ccurle01 , August 02, 2008 (08:35:55 AM)

I am a strong believer in the one major camping rule, if you bring it out with you than you are responsible for bring in back in. This will include the broken glass the people are so kind enough to leave behind from the drunken stages.

Garbage cans would be the worst thing for these site, UNLESS they are the bear prof ones. However, you are still going to attract bears with those for they smell food from a few miles away. Remember, you are entering their terriotory, this is their home and if the bear becomes a problem than the conservation officers will be forced to put it down in their habitat in which we are invaiding, be smart and pick up after yourselves. I go camping out there on a regular basis and I don't understand what is so hard in having a bag for your garbage and a bag for your empties and than putting them away in a safe place when you are not at the campsite. With that being said, there is a dump where you can drop off your garbage just down the highway on your way back to town, one quick little stop and it is taken care of. The garbage and the empties that are so kindly accumulating out there is at the fault of the people who are camping. If you are going to go camping, at least be a resposible camper and leave the site clean when you leave. Maybe it will set an example for those slobs who don't know how to pick up after themselves or who are less experience campers, lead by example.

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written by ccurle01 , August 02, 2008 (08:40:34 AM)

I would like to add that this includes the well hidden rock quory that people and so kindly ruining for everyone by throwing their bottles into the pole of water and having them break. I plan to get together a bunch of friends and attempt to clean it, but it will not be an easy job.

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written by dhood , August 02, 2008 (10:12:21 AM)

Cob Lake is very nice. Maybe you could check it out.

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written by travhops , August 03, 2008 (04:02:13 AM)

Sad that people are treating campsites and public places like this. How hard is it to carry your garbage out with you? I grew up with the "leave it like you found it" adage. Thankfully there are people like ccurle who don't just look the other way. I had a friend whose young son nearly severed his foot by stepping on a broken beer bottle in the water while swimming. Shame on the person who threw that in the water!

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written by Thoughtful , August 03, 2008 (09:26:55 PM)

Thanks for the clean-up people, in Quesnel there is a lake called Dragon Lake with a public boat launch/party place within close proximity to families with little kids. These parties are noisy, usually in the spring time, and create havoc at the boat launch during the day. Hundreds of flats for cargo are burnt and create huge piles of nails, thus flat tires by the lot. Thanks to Princess auto, I bought a huge cleanup magnet, and picked up 23.6lbs of nails, I took them to the recycle center where they were promptly snapped up. At Beaver Mouth Campsites just down the Hydraulic Road from this boat launch, a frigging mess was created, trees indiscriminately chopped down, and the out house trashed with fire. The police have enough fresh kids in the force, you'd think that some of these could go undercover and be at the parties also, like roasting wieners with the revelers at the boat launch and gathering information, but not in uniform.

Thoughtful
written by One Happy Camper , August 04, 2008 (10:47:21 AM)

Undercover cops at a party???
Why not just have regular old cops show up at this public site and enforce the law.