Replying to People who do graffiti in the woods
so today i go for a stroll at my nearest hiking trail: Cotton Hallow, Glastonbury, CT. everything is green and lovely after a few days of rain, and the Trout Brook was flowing high and fast. everything was perfect and i was really enjoying the walk since i had been away from home for 2 months and i missed Cotton Hallow dearly. but after walking around a sharp bend in the trail, i spotted a bunch of graffiti and tags high up on a popular cliff-jumping spot. i found it so awful and so frustrating that this beautiful place ive been visiting since i could walk now has a hideous, permanent, stain. it makes me wonder who has the nerve to deface part of something so majestic. one of my favorite things about Cotton Hallow is that besides the trail itself, the landscape appears very untouched by humans; it seems truly wild. of course, humans destroy nature all the time; strip malls, suburbs, and highways do a lot more damage to a forest than one kid with a can of spray paint, but the graffiti is like wounding and animal but not killing it. its cruel, has no benefit, and ruins a lot more than what was directly affected. now i need to go out of my way to buy a paint remover and spend my day tomorrow scrubbing at it instead of doing things i wanted to do. its just annoying, pointless, and rude, and i hope the members of NS have a little more sense of conservation than whoever chooses to do graffiti on a hiking trail.
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