[pct-l] Toilet paper

[giniajim]

just for the record, the proper trail mix etiquette is for the mix bag owner to pour the mix into the receiving persons hand(s).  *no one* should *ever* put their hands into a bag of trail mix, even the owner!  

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dicentra 
  To: Junaid Dawud 
  Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Toilet paper


  Just for the record... I will not be sharing trail mix with you. :p

  ~Dicentra

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  ________________________________
  From: Junaid Dawud <jdawud at gmail.com>
  To: Pacific Crest Trail List <pct-l at backcountry.net>
  Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 12:18:17 PM
  Subject: [pct-l] Toilet paper

  Hey all,

  Some of you may be familiar with my position on TP on the trail. For 
  those who aren't....

  Many hikers debate the bury/ burn/ carry out question when it comes to 
  TP in the backcountry. If one is going to use TP on trail, I think 
  carrying it out is the best option and simply burying it is bad news 
  (I've seen plenty of TP that once was buried fluttering in the wind 
  after some critter dug it up).

  However, I submit to you that the mere act of using TP on the trail is 
  unhygenic. In the 'settled world' (or at least the western settled 
  world), people use TP to scrape off the big chunks and basically smear 
  the rest around. TP does not, as we might like to think, actually 
  clean us off (to prove this to yourself, go smear sticky mud all over 
  your hands and see how clean you can get them with TP). Most people 
  only really become clean again when they take a shower. Since most 
  'settled' folks shower daily, it's not a *big* deal. On the trail 
  however, you may go a week or more with out a proper shower. In this 
  case, a person would literally be walking around for days on end with 
  a dirty butt. Gross. The option I used in 2006, and will use again 
  this year is to use that wonderful cleaner we call water rather than 
  TP. Water, as it turns out, actually cleans you.

  I carry a small dish soap style bottle that I fill only when potty 
  time is approaching. After doing my business, I squirt the water and 
  use my hand (oh God, did he say his HAND ?!?!) to wash off my butt. 
  Usually there is plenty of water left after washing my butt to also 
  wash my hands. Then 2 cycles of purell, and I'm good to go.

  In 2006 I converted a few people to this system, and I'm hoping this 
  year I'll win over even more people. In 2006 at the Saufley's, I 
  explained this system to Scott williamson. He told me that he would 
  give it a try, since he felt that each year he kept seeing more and 
  more improperly disposed of TP on the trail. I don't know if he ended 
  up trying / liking the system.

  That's it, that's all.

  Junaid (whose butt will be clean)
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