Aspen Is a Great Place for Skiing and Also Stepping in Shit, Apparently
Trick question: which is accumulating faster atop Aspen’s fair ski mountains—legal weed or Bogner-clad assholes on skis? The answer, it turns out, is dog poop (but that will change come winter.)
The problem is apparently so pervasive that a band of local volunteers recently got together to gather more than 100 pounds of excrement off the Smugglers Mountain trail. But within a month, authorities say, another 50 piles were left behind by careless dog owners.
Reported the Aspen Times last month:
“It has been disgusting this year,” [Pitkin County Open Space and Trails senior ranger John Armstrong] said Monday after marking a field of dog feces with hot-pink flags. “It seems like we’ve regressed back five or six years.”
Armstrong said officials have been actively working with users to lessen the problem for about eight years. This year, the most egregious offense, he said, has been users who put their dog’s poop in a plastic bag but leave the bag behind for someone else to dispose of it.
“I don’t know who they figure is going to pick it up, but there’s not a poop fairy,” Armstrong said. “We don’t have slaves that go behind people and clean up after them.”
And here you thought Aspen’s biggest problem was all the bullshit.
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