Don’t know of any “frat” parties that hike their beer in up to Katahdin peak. This is a bunch of local stoners, or regional— who, everywhere along the trail (just as in CA in Mendocino County) have ruined the solace and solitude of backpacking in the high country. The great unwashed and living at home with mom and dad on obamaumaocare, unemployed dishwasher stoners, aimless except as wreckers.
Advice— if you’re gonna hike, bring both teargas and more deadly protection.... from the animals, you see.
drugs, parties all night, so let’s go hiking! Not as bad as the trail to Mt Everest where frozen bodies are left and tons of garbage. But it won’t be long.
www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/30/hikers-behaving-badly-appalachian-trail-partying-raises-ire/?intcmp=hpbt4
Would they respect it more if they had to pay? They think it’s free now and boy do I hate litter.