[pct-l] Toilet paper

[dicentra]

You are correct of course!! :)

And no double dipping!

~Dicentra
 
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From: giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net>
To: dicentra <dicentragirl at yahoo.com>; Junaid Dawud <jdawud at gmail.com>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 1:29:27 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Toilet paper


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
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>Just for the record... I will not be sharing trail mix with you. :p
>
>~Dicentra
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>http://www.onepanwonders.com ~ Backcountry Cooking at its Finest
>http://www.freewebs.com/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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