[pct-l] Leave No Trace - okay to bury TP?

[Sir Mixalot]

That would be an effective solution if everyone, literally everyone, packed
out their WAG bags.  Even on the short length of trail on Mount Whitney,
and convenient disposal sites, people leave their WAG bags behind.  Go
check out local hiking trails with conveniently located trash bins and
you'll see doggie bags along the trail.  These are short trails, and people
can't be bothered to carry that waste to a trash bin.

Packing out your own waste isn't a policy than can be enforced well
throughout the PCT.  Instead of having bits of TP here and there that
rarely get dug up and will eventually break down on their own, there would
be countless baggies that are left on the surface that will biograde slowly
enough to still be there until some volunteer carries it out...although the
closure is likely to fail much sooner, so it'll end up being a nasty empty
plastic bag blowing around the mountains.  I do some trail work
occasionally, but full or empty, I'm not carrying used WAG bags out.  TP is
easily reburied.

If you want to pack your waste out, I commend you and everyone that does
that.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:25 PM, CClark <dr_carolyn at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Sir Mixalot says <<a good cathole is the best compromise for the masses. “
> I don’t think so.
> When TP is buried in a cathole, animals dig it up, and soon
> it is in plain sight of hikers.  Every summer
> when I’m section-hiking, I see several disgusting piles of used TP that
> some
> hiker didn’t have the courtesy to pack out (sometimes brown, sometimes
> yellow).
>  If we can pack TP in,
> we can pack it out.  Bring a small baggie
> with baby powder in it for the used stuff.  Carry that in a larger baggie
> in your ditty bag with your trowel.
> At each resupply, throw out the old baggie.  Send a new baggie with baby
> powder in every
> resupply box.
> It takes only a moment, and leaves the backcountry looking nice
> for the next person.
> Carolyn <SoulDoctor>
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