JULIAN —
Residents of Julian, Mount Laguna and the Cleveland National Forest are asking people who visit the mountain areas to revel in the snow to do what the signs say: “Pack it in, Pack it out.”
Photos shared by the U.S. Forest Service over the past few days show dirty public restrooms, toppled trash cans, and boxes, bags and broken sleds left behind, apparently by visitors who came to play in the region’s higher elevations last week.
On Monday, Julian resident Virginia Duval picked up five bags of trash along state Route 79, near a popular hill for sledding in the area. The trash she collected was spread over several acres of land, and she recounted some of her findings.