Quote Originally Posted by MuddyWaters View Post
I gots no problem feeding hikers.
But it doesnt belong on the trail, or anywhere near the trail corridor.
It spoils the nature of hiking
A quiet parking lot with a couple parked cars is one thing to come upon at a remote road crossing.
A party with 10 people there drinking beer and barbecueing, is something else.

The ATC is remiss in not working to get rid of this stuff.

Same goes for cooler and items left abandoned. On most national forest land, its even illegal to do so.
This.

A simple solution is to place signs at road crossings for feeds located up or down the road a few hundred yards, allowing those who want to attend do so without disrupting others who don't have an interest.

Hiker feeds however may be inevitable from an anthropology perspective. Its an evolutionary process commonly seen across the landscape of human history where trail intersections with predictable traffic patters attract service providers. These can be altruistic people offering food to food "with a message", eventually leading to commercial enterprise establishing itself on the trail or corridor. I am hoping this is not the case but history provides the lesson if we can learn from it.