What the heck! Talk about clueless campers, hauling spoilable meat products around in black garbage bags and a suitcase! They gave BEAR ATTRACTANTS and 'leaving-a-trace' new levels of ignorance, let alone the concepts of food health/safety. It looks like they simply didn't know how to cope and just abandonned their supplies.
Too bad that such ignorant and ill-prepared people can even get into the backcountry. Back a number of years ago, then-park-super John Winters was trying to gather support for a skills-and-ethics course for backcountry access .. along with a training center for that and advanced skills education. Too bad the 'powers-that-be' didn't support it! Even an online 'test', like the motorboat operators test, would familiarize people with the basic skills, rules, ethics and expectations associated with access to the backcountry. But I'm not holding my breath!
