[pct-l] TP ???

[sue.kettles at comcast.net]

Please don't jump all over me, because I really would like to know.  In 20 years of backpacking, I have never had that happen... digging a hole and finding something.  Guess I'm just lucky.  When I did a trial bury of TP in my back yard, in the fall, by spring, it was pretty well disintegrated. (I do live in Oregon - so it rains alot here)  It is a tree source after all... and if its not perfumed and colored, whats the big deal burying it the right depth if in the right terrain??  I don't want to be ignorant, but I don't want to do something that is maybe, at this moment, the new "right way".   Like people picking up their dog crap in plastic bags and putting it in the garbage can?  How is that supposed to help the environment when it will take much longer to decompose in a landfill in that plastic baggy.  Someone with knowlege,...please,  I'd love to understand. 



HJ 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "patti kulesz" <peprmintpati88 at yahoo.com> 
To: afishnamedcarl at gmail.com, pct-l at backcountry.net, "AsABat" <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net> 
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:29:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] TP ??? 

it really sux too when one tries to find a spot to go and digs up a bunch of someone else's TP and ...well u know.... 

patti 

--- On Sat, 1/24/09, AsABat <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net> wrote: 

From: AsABat <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net> 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] TP ??? 
To: afishnamedcarl at gmail.com, pct-l at backcountry.net 
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 5:32 PM 

It's very easy to put the used TP in a ziploc-type back and pack it out. 


Burying it in the hole gets ugly when a critter digs it up (yes, they 
do), or rain washes just enough soil away to reveal the TP streamer. 

Burning it is a really bad idea. I thruhiker started a wildfire a couple 
years ago doing that. 

AsABat 


>  What's the deal with TP. Pack in pack out or leave it in the whole. 
> Obviously taking it out is better but no one likes carring used tp 
with 
> them. 

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