Your privy style?

[daddytwosticks]

Most of the crappers I've seen have no door. But I have only hiked in Georgia, TN, and NC. In fact, most of the newer type look to be handicapped accessible with ramps and grab handles.

[JumpMaster Blaster]

Place one foot on either side of the hole in the privy and bend at the knees until your @ is over the O. You are now in the anatomically correct pooping position, as designed by God/Fate/3 billion years of evolution. If you're of the male persuasion, make sure your little guy is looking into the hole so you don't spray the door or the floor. Now the only part of of you that has touched the privy is the bottoms of your footwear.

Ahh, the old "squat and hover". We ladies have perfected that technique out of pure necessity.

[Sarcasm the elf]

Most of the crappers I've seen have no door. But I have only hiked in Georgia, TN, and NC. In fact, most of the newer type look to be handicapped accessible with ramps and grab handles.

As I understand it, the new ones are ADA compliant because it's cheaper and easier to build them that way than it is to get an exemption. I'm not going to complain about it though, I greatly enjoy the extra space.

[FreeGoldRush]

As I understand it, the new ones are ADA compliant because it's cheaper and easier to build them that way than it is to get an exemption. I'm not going to complain about it though, I greatly enjoy the extra space.

It is comical to see a privy with handicap rails that is miles from the nearest road. Someone had to carry those steel handicap rails out there.. When you dig a 6 to 8 inch hole in the woods and poop in it, did you just illegally construct a privy without handicap rails? You shudder to think of the consequences.

[Sarcasm the elf]

It is comical to see a privy with handicap rails that is miles from the nearest road. Someone had to carry those steel handicap rails out there.. When you dig a 6 to 8 inch hole in the woods and poop in it, did you just illegally construct a privy without handicap rails? You shudder to think of the consequences.

You don't install rails on your catholes? How do you keep from falling in?

[Bronk]

That's what fire rings are for.

[QiWiz]

I'm not too worried about touching something that someones skin has touched after everything else I've done on the AT and while hiking.

Well put. If a privy is really disgusting and I'm not desperate, I have been known to hike on well away from camp and dig a cathole well away from the trail. I have a trowel that makes this an easy chore as it turns out.