What to do with TP?

[Daryl]

Backpacker magazine had an interesting point/counter point this month.

Toilet Paper or no toilet paper on long backpack trips. One position said they won't leave home without it, sometimes packing it out, sometimes burying it. The other said they don't even bring it. They said they use rocks, leaves, or their hand.

I don't want to think about not even bringing TP (insert Hoolie joke here), so the poll question is; do you pack your TP out, or bury it?

[cactuscat]

Pack it out, pack it out, pack it out!! And don't forget to pack it out.

Nothing is more disgusting than seeing wads of t.p. laying around, and t.p. "flowers" in the bushes. Burying doesn't always work - there is erosion, or animals dig stuff up ... please spare us.

LNT for life.

[evenstar]

GTG has been known to carry a Port-o-Potty in his backpack.
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[maryphyl]

Pack it out--always.
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[kurthzone]

MMMMMMM...........TP flowers in the bushes.....
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[Shawn]

My mamma taught me what it was for years ago, were you absent that day?
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[Canyon Dweller]

I burn it then bury it. Ashes are good for the environment.
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[plummer150]

[maryphyl]

I know many kids in boy scouts were taught to burn their toilet paper. It is really easy to carry it out, in fact putting it in a baggie requires less handling than the burn and bury method. Most illnesses that people blame on bad water are actually from being less than careful handling their own poop Our desert is too dry to be burning things. There have been toilet paper fires. Grand Canyon regulations require packing it out and some folks (not me) want us to pack out the poop as well.
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I walk in beauty.

[tempe8]

I'm not quite sure what we do is any different than what the lions and tigers and bears do (or is that doo?). If they're part of nature and they're do(ooing) it out there I see no problem with us do(ooing) it out there. The only place I will be packing it out is on top of a 14k+' which is covered in ice where things don't go away they just freeze and stay. As for everywhere else, I'm pefectly content with being selective and leaving the biodegradable stuff where it belongs...in nature...not in my backpack!

When in the woods...do as the bears do(oo)!

[grouphiker]

Anything that does not come out naturally--pack out!