So how would the pro-horse crowd (or anyone else) react if, say, 15 boy scouts did the same amount of damage? Dug holes in the meadow, yanked up grass for beds, crapped and pissed all around the campsite? Why is it ok when horses are involved?
As a member of the pro-horse crowd, I would like to say that I hate horse damage and walking through fresh horse excrement (not to mention mule piss quicksand on the Bright Angle Trail) as much as you do. Somehow, I don’t mind picking up a wheelbarrow or two of fresh manure on my property every day. It fills an 18-wheeler every 8 months. Put just one small pile of the same stuff on the trail where I walk or in the campsite where I want to camp, and I find it totally disgusting. Our horses stay out of the wilderness.
