[pct-l] Natural TP

[Shauna]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Scott Piddington
<sp2mtns at yahoo.com> had this to say:

>Education is the key to Leave-No-Trace ethics. I pose a solution and a question. I've been backpacking for 40 years. I've spent from 10 to 20 weeks a year in the back country on one trail or another for the last 10 years. I thru-hiked the AT in 2004. I've hiked in the Wind River Range, the Whites of NH, the Sierras, the Wemminuche, Glacier, Gates of the Arctic & the Tongass. I have dug lost of cat holes but I haven't used any toilet paper. 
>
>Instead I use what nature provides such as: 
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>Leaves (be sure you know what they are)
>Spruce or hemlock cones
>Smooth sticks
>Small, smooth, soft rocks
>Snow (the perfect TP)
>
>All this goes in the hole of course. I still carry a little toilet paper for use in the occasional outhouse.
>
>Of course I have no experience in the desert. I'll be starting a PCT thru-hike in a month. Can anyone tell me what is the best natural TP in the desert?
>
>Voyageur


You could also use the Arabic method, it's much cleaner then using T.P
anyway.   Maybe that won't be a good option in the low water sections
though.