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What do you do with your TP? |
Pack it out. |
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Bury it. |
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Daryl
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 1168 Location: Everett, Washington
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Posted: 4/17/2003, 5:38 pm Post subject: What to do with TP? |
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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? |
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cactuscat
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 459 Location: Phoenix
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Posted: 4/18/2003, 11:53 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 4/18/2003, 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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GTG has been known to carry a Port-o-Potty in his backpack. _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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maryphyl Grand Canyon Enchantress
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 669 Location: Flagstaff
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Posted: 4/18/2003, 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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Pack it out--always. _________________ Shikekeh hozhoogo naasha.
I walk in beauty. |
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kurthzone Thread Killer
Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 1097 Location: Peoria, Arizona
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Posted: 4/20/2003, 11:43 am Post subject: |
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MMMMMMM...........TP flowers in the bushes..... _________________ ;o)> |
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 4/20/2003, 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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My mamma taught me what it was for years ago, were you absent that day? _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: 4/21/2003, 10:04 am Post subject: |
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I burn it then bury it. Ashes are good for the environment. _________________ Mountains are there to be climbed!
"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2 |
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plummer150
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 542 Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
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Posted: 4/22/2003, 6:11 am Post subject: re: |
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Pack it out, pack it out, pack it out!! And don't forget to pack it out. |
If I ever see anyone I'm hiking with pack the TP back out with them, I will destroy. Burn it and bury it. You would have to be on the edge of lunicy to even think about keeping your TP in your backpack for the rest of the trip. _________________ "IRONMAN" cometh, hiketh, destroyeth |
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maryphyl Grand Canyon Enchantress
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 669 Location: Flagstaff
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Posted: 4/22/2003, 8:24 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Shikekeh hozhoogo naasha.
I walk in beauty. |
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tempe8
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Tempe, AZ
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Posted: 4/22/2003, 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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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)! |
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grouphiker
Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Peoria
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Posted: 4/23/2003, 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Anything that does not come out naturally--pack out! |
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