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    live in a privy for five months or thru hike the AT northbound?

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    Ok,I'll bite,how big a privy and where is it located?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    Ok,I'll bite,how big a privy and where is it located?
    It's one of the freakishly big privies, so you can actually lie down in it. It's not a horribly busy shelter, but you will of course have to deal with hikers using the privy while you are just trying to just chill. You have to eat, sleep and do everything else in there. The only time you are allowed outside is to use the bathroom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azurescens View Post
    It's one of the freakishly big privies, so you can actually lie down in it. It's not a horribly busy shelter, but you will of course have to deal with hikers using the privy while you are just trying to just chill. You have to eat, sleep and do everything else in there. The only time you are allowed outside is to use the bathroom.
    If this is a invite to be on a reality TV show,where if I stay for 6 weeks and have to endure all kinds of crazy stuff,people,drunks,and of coarse folks with digestive disorders,then I say.................How much $$$

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azurescens View Post
    live in a privy for five months or thru hike the AT northbound?
    Why not do both? Then you could write an e-book and be a guest speaker at Trail Days.
    Last edited by Spokes; 04-25-2012 at 06:36.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azurescens View Post
    live in a privy for five months or thru hike the AT northbound?
    Stupid Question.

    Quote Originally Posted by Spokes View Post
    Why not do both? Then you could write an e-book and be a guest speaker at Trail Days.
    Great book!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thirsty DPD View Post
    Stupid Question.


    Great book!
    I,have always felt that an entire book could be written on S___House Poetry!

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    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    I,have always felt that an entire book could be written on S___House Poetry!
    Not sure how that comma got there,that's a little to strange

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    I would rather thru hike northbound. Living in a privy doesn't appeal to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azurescens View Post
    live in a privy for five months or thru hike the AT northbound?
    neither. i'd rather play golf

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    Kind of a strange question I can't even use privies any more, so the thought of sleeping in one is not an option. However, I'd like to locate a bunch of old privies and have them dug up (notice: "have them" ) and to see how well the contents breakdown. It's something that has always made me wonder... I wonder if there's a chance of the stuff semi-fossilizing or if it does decompose (which would be via anaerobic process -- yucky) what the consistency of the soil would be and there must be leachate, what happens to that stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by john gault View Post
    I'd like to locate a bunch of old privies and have them dug up (notice: "have them" ) and to see how well the contents breakdown. It's something that has always made me wonder... I wonder if there's a chance of the stuff semi-fossilizing or if it does decompose (which would be via anaerobic process -- yucky) what the consistency of the soil would be
    Been there; done that. It ain't pretty!

    Been involved in moving a privy at a site with very limited allowed spots, so we ended up trying to move it to a location used years earlier. Ugh! No go.

    Buried down deep in more or less sterile mineral soil, decomposition must take an awfully long time.
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    I have a well aerated compost pile and decomposition under those circumstances is very quick as long as there is air and moisture available it attracts tons of organisms, both macro and micro. However, anaerobic (without oxygen -- and it's far more stinkier process) only allows certain microorganisms to grow, so the time for decomposition is much slower. Furthermore, as moisture is removed and not replenished that means nothing lives. I'm sure there is always moisture, but how much is key, the less moisture the slower the process, so that's what makes me think of semi-fossilization happening.

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    Quote Originally Posted by john gault View Post
    I have a well aerated compost pile and decomposition under those circumstances is very quick as long as there is air and moisture available it attracts tons of organisms, both macro and micro. However, anaerobic (without oxygen -- and it's far more stinkier process) only allows certain microorganisms to grow, so the time for decomposition is much slower. Furthermore, as moisture is removed and not replenished that means nothing lives. I'm sure there is always moisture, but how much is key, the less moisture the slower the process, so that's what makes me think of semi-fossilization happening.
    John,I'm thinking it is dependant on the soil type,that would replace the turds with minerals.But being a"Turd Herder"(plumber)for many a years,I have no desire to dig up,or under a privy,unless it's been fossilized over many a Eons,hunting for fossil Dino dung on the other could be fun and they probably have no more gas in it than an abandoned car on the NJ turnpike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    John,I'm thinking it is dependant on the soil type,that would replace the turds with minerals.But being a"Turd Herder"(plumber)for many a years,I have no desire to dig up,or under a privy,unless it's been fossilized over many a Eons,hunting for fossil Dino dung on the other could be fun and they probably have no more gas in it than an abandoned car on the NJ turnpike.
    Admendment;no more than traces of gas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    John,I'm thinking it is dependant on the soil type,that would replace the turds with minerals.But being a"Turd Herder"(plumber)for many a years,I have no desire to dig up,or under a privy,unless it's been fossilized over many a Eons,hunting for fossil Dino dung on the other could be fun and they probably have no more gas in it than an abandoned car on the NJ turnpike.
    Yeah, soil type makes a difference, but the thing is that they (at least they use to) dig them down fairly deep, below where much of the soil organisms live, and then simply cover them up, basically creating an air-tight enclosure. And when air is locked out things get realy nasty and slimy. I've even had pockets in my compost pile develop these air-tight conditions, mainly because I packed things wrong and didn't turn it, and even in an above-ground compost pile it can get very stinky and slimmy -- really nasty .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azurescens View Post
    live in a privy for five months or thru hike the AT northbound?
    Hike AT northbound.

    This makes me question the saying, "There are no stupid questions". Is there a point to this question?

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    Quote Originally Posted by flemdawg1 View Post
    Hike AT northbound.

    This makes me question the saying, "There are no stupid questions". Is there a point to this question?
    I think not.

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