[pct-l] TP ???

[David Margavage]

One other reason to leave the paper is so if someone digs they find the
paper before they find the prize.  Sorta like a trace wire over a water or
electric line, when you see it you stop digging ;-)

On 1/24/09, David Margavage <davidmargavage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think they pick up the dog poop so we don't step in it I think?  But I'm
> with you about biodegradable paper.
>
> On 1/24/09, sue.kettles at comcast.net <sue.kettles at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> 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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