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How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers
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If you come to Colorado DO NOT dig cat holes. Our environment will not decompose your waste before someone else needs to dig one.
WAG bag, every time. They are not expensive.
leave. no. trace.
edit: #2, I don't think #1 is going to do much to the environment, just don't pee in the creek. Unless you're upstream from Coors it'll make the beer taste better.
I shit just fine in CO with holes. Year after year I even watched some of my shit spots grow beautiful flowers.
You don't own Colorado and it was there long before you. It will be there long after you. Remote forests handle our shit just fine. Dig deep enough and away from the trail or water, near some plants, and they will gobble it up no problem. The number of human hikers in remote places is minuscule.
A bit wild to demand people shit in synthetic plastic bags they have to purchase and dump them in a landfill. "Leave no trace -- except the giant plastic waste sites scarring the landscape everywhere"
Now if you're talking park trails and other heavily populated places? That's different. It also isn't "Colorado" it is a specific sub-specification.
I call them poop bags
I used to use a bread bag but I'm not supposed to put those in the vault toilets. The WAG bag is supposedly compostable and has a gel in it so your waste doesn't get in your pack. They are definitely cool.
Yeah I use the WAG bags but WAG doesn't sound cool. "Poop bag" or "shit bag" sounds much better
And everyone needs a good set of heel rocks.
I appreciate the suggestion. I'm not in Colorado but the heat waves we've been getting in Washington have the made the normally soft soil into something that cannot be dug into without some serious tools. My ultralight trowel cannot do a thing to this stuff.
Keeping a couple of these bags in my kit is a great idea.
Is that because of the high altitude?
It's very dry in most of the state so getting composting moving along can take some effort
If it is very dry, doesn't that also mean it is less likely to spread/leak into the aquifer?
E.g. dried cow-manure seems to be fine for the environment to handle.
It's because herbivore shit is usually fine. Like you and I could have a shit-fight with horse poop and not get sick. Please don't, and especially please don't have a shit-fight with omnivore or even many carnivore shits.
Have the animals been informed of this ?
Well since you don't seem to understand, I would challenge you to hold a healthy human shit in one hand and a healthy carnivore shit in the other hand. I guess you're going to need to use your mouth for a herbivore shit but just compare the three.
Are you having a stroke?