Hello all,
I've been attending Four Quarters events for four years now. This past festival was my first GMSF.

I was EXTREMELY disheartened at the amount of trash people threw all over that gorgeous land. NEVER have I seen such complete and total disrespect for the sacred space and the people who have worked so hard to create and maintain it. At every other 4QF event I've been to, it's been a huge surprise to find even 3 or 4 cigarette butts after the night of a drum and fire circle. At GMSF, you could not take a step without seeing some sort of refuse strewn on the ground. Unbelievable.

My boyfriend and I spent nearly two hours on Sunday before we left filling trash bags with cigarette butts, plastic cups, empty water bottles, beer cans, glowsticks, and stupid f*cking little plastic baggies from the High Meadow and the Stone Circle.

I cleaned up an area around a group of young men seated in the Stone Circle, swept it of every cigarette butt and bit of plastic... and when I returned to that space a few minutes later after cleaning up nearby, there was a brand new, still-burning cigarette butt lying there on the ground in the center of their little group. I was sick as a dog with a respiratory infection, covered in sweat, kneeling at the feet of these @ssholes cleaning up their mess, and they just tossed their cigarette butts right back onto the ground when I turned my back.

I was, and am, disgusted.

I sincerely hope that in the future, the attendees of this event behave more like the responsible, earth-conscious adults they claim to be instead of like a bunch of careless litterbugs who have only come to Four Quarters to get f*cked up and trash the place. I won't be there next time to clean up after you, because the anger this has caused me is enough to deter me from ever attending GMSF ever again.