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Techniques and Equipment for Wilderness Travel with Stock
Most pellets contain enough salt to satisfy stock for a few days. If additional salt is packed in for long trips, only salt blocks should be used. Small 4-pound (1.81 kilogram) salt blocks are available to reduce pack weight and bulk. Salt blocks should be placed in a container to prevent rain from leaching salt into the soil, destroying vegetation and attracting wildlife that paw up the ground.
Horse licking a salt block.
When it’s time to break camp, nothing should be left behind. All refuse must be taken out. Burned cans and other unburned debris from the campfire should be crushed for easy packing. Pack out all garbage, including food scraps, grease and paper. Burying garbage or burning aluminum foil is not an acceptable disposal method and is illegal in some locations.
Dismantle temporary hitch rails and corrals. Scatter manure piles to aid decomposition, discourage flies, and maintain an undisturbed appearance. If stock pawing or trampling has created holes or depressions, replace the soil and cover it with natural litter such as pine needles or leaves. Any large objects that were cleared from the area or moved into camp should be returned to their original location. Ropes should be removed from trees and packed out.
Replace soil and cover holes with natural litter.
If a campfire was used, make sure that it is drowned dead out and that unused firewood and rocks from fire rings are scattered. Ashes should be disposed of according to local regulations. Some managers require that ashes be scattered. Others require that they be packed out, particularly along some rivers in wilderness used for float boating.
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