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(Photo: Lisa Hoefer Kalell)

(Photo: Lisa Hoefer Kalell)

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — If you’ve climbed to the 14,278-foot summit of Grays Peak, then you know part of the payoff is the 360-degree view across the rooftop of Colorado. But hikers today saw something else that caught their attention: Names written on summit rocks with permanent marker.

Brad McQueen is an avid mountaineer and ambassador for the Cleaner 14er project.

“#Cleaner14er strives to leave each 14er cleaner than we found them”, McQueen wrote. “This means not vandalizing rocks, not leaving bags of dog poop, toilet paper, and using existing trails that the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative and others have spent thousands of hours constructing.”

Writing on rocks also goes against the longtime standards of leave no trace.

“The idea is to take only photos and leave only footsteps,” McQueen said.

This comes on the heels of a report from the CFI showing that 20,000 to 25,000 people in 2015 hiked on Grays Peak, making it and neighboring Torreys Peak the third-most hiked 14ers in Colorado.