Up in the San Gabriel mountains in Southern California, just off of a faint use trail above Sierra Madre, someone installed a memorial bench for their child who died shortly after birth. Stumbling on it on a hike, I was overcome with emotion thinking of the grief those parents must have felt, and how it spurred them into the monumental effort of hiking the bench all the way up there and planting it in the ground. I'm normally a staunch advocate of the wilderness principle of Leave No Trace, but I didn't even think about it once whilst seated on that bench.