Burning TP

[aficion]

or yo can do as invisible man did this year. he hiked the entire trail without once digging a cathole. would use privies or wait till he got into town.
not a single cathole-incredible.

That means the age old question, "Does a hiker s### in the woods?" has now become multiple choice.

[aficion]

i wear Depends, poop myself then discard the diaper in the next privy i come to

Guess you can just pith in them too

[Lone Wolf]

great interview on NPR today with Bill Bryson

[Rasty]

great interview on NPR today with Bill Bryson

TP reminds you of Bryson?

[aficion]

TP reminds you of Bryson?

TP reminds me of Walter whose response to the question was bestest.

[HikerMom58]

I like TP... it's the bestest. I don't like it to burn tho!

[Colter]

El Paso man ordered to pay $2.7M for burning used toilet paper that started wildfire (83 square miles)

A California man whose burning toilet paper allegedly set off one of last summer's worst wildfires faces a bill estimated at about $3 million as well as criminal charges (14 square miles burned)

Burning toilet paper has caused far more harm than good. It's not necessary. Presumably all the people who have started the hundreds of wildfires caused by burning toilet paper thought it would be OK and they wouldn't start a wildfire. A reminder: certain types of soil burn, even when you might not expect it.

[treesloth]

or yo can do as invisible man did this year. he hiked the entire trail without once digging a cathole. would use privies or wait till he got into town.
not a single cathole-incredible.

"Roadside" didn't dig a cathole OR use a privy on his thru last year. According to Roadside, at least. I'd have s*at myself within two days.

[fredmugs]

TP reminds you of Bryson?

His book reminds me of TP.

[WingedMonkey]

I wipe with tea bags.

[treesloth]

I wipe with tea bags.

Herbal, black, or green?

[oldbear]

Of course we could just not use TP and replace it w/ a Super Soaker water gun used in the bidet mode

[daddytwosticks]

In days of old when men were bold and toilet bowls weren't invented, we walked the roads with our loads and went away contented. Old poem from my troubled youth.

[Lone Wolf]

the next 3 weekends on the creeper trail are the busiest all year. since the gubment has shut down the 3 privys in the 17 mile stretch are locked. gonna be a poopload of TP scattered everywhere

[SCRUB HIKER]

I basically agree with this. I don't think animals dig up human feces. I think many people don't bury their feces or their toilet paper and that's the big reason I find both all over the place.

I watched a buck excavate TP in Northern California this summer. It let me walk up to within about 10 feet because it was so concentrated on whatever it was rooting in the ground for. I couldn't imagine what was so appealing down there, and then 30 seconds later toilet paper started coming up. I have pictures of the whole event but they're not on my computer yet. This was TP that was originally well buried in a cat-hole, and it changed the way I thought about cat-holes (and about deer ... little Bambi is probably going to grow up to be a s***-eater). After that, I used natural (leaves, rocks) as much as I could, or if I used TP, I made sure to bury it DEEP in the ground.

[Blue Mountain Edward]

Crap in a fire ring then burn it up. Then you have a reason to have a campfire. Or call it a crapfire.