Park service asks hikers not to post precise GPS coordinates of Denali hikes | Alaska Dispatch News
Alaska Dispatch
FAIRBANKS — The adage of “leave only footprints, take only photographs” covers only part of the leave-no-trace ethic at Denali National Park.
In addition to packing out toilet paper and not collecting moose antlers as souvenirs, rangers now ask backcountry hikers to not post precise maps of their adventures on the Internet.
They say detailed turn-by-turn instructions for GPS devices have the potential to threaten what’s supposed to be a trail-less wilderness as hundreds of footprints along the same routes scrape trails into the landscape.
“If someone says this is the greatest campsite ever and then everyone camps there on a published route, we’re going to see impacts,” said Michael Raffaeli, a backcountry ranger at Denali.
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