How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers
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Is there a way to poop outdoors in a way that will harm my enemies?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Leave it less than six feet away from where they commonly walk around barefoot and they could get hookworm. If I remember the Radio Lab correctly anyway.
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Thanks! Now I finally know How To Shit In The Woods
Congrats, you're one step closer to the papacy
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A literal shitpost. Splendid.
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DO NOT use a bag of holding for this, you will regret it.
Yeah, you gotta get the bag of holeding instead
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I poop in the middle of the trail I am hiking to assert dominance over the other hikers
Are you a horse?
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*bag of holing
If you get a hold of such a bag, one with a whole hole in its hold, whatever you do, don't place a whole other bag of holing with a hole in it, inside it.
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I've tried carrying a hole around in a bag but the darn thing always seems to get lost when it comes time to use it.
You obviously have to plant it in the ground first, silly!
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Yeah, you gotta get the bag of holeding instead
Or a bag of whole dung
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There's a lot of bad shit in our poop that isn't in most wild animal shit.
Particularly transmissible diseases for other humans.
Spicy surprise
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If you come to Colorado DO NOT dig cat holes. Our environment will not decompose your waste before someone else needs to dig one.
WAG bag, every time. They are not expensive.
leave. no. trace.
edit: #2, I don't think #1 is going to do much to the environment, just don't pee in the creek. Unless you're upstream from Coors it'll make the beer taste better.
I shit just fine in CO with holes. Year after year I even watched some of my shit spots grow beautiful flowers.
You don't own Colorado and it was there long before you. It will be there long after you. Remote forests handle our shit just fine. Dig deep enough and away from the trail or water, near some plants, and they will gobble it up no problem. The number of human hikers in remote places is minuscule.
A bit wild to demand people shit in synthetic plastic bags they have to purchase and dump them in a landfill. "Leave no trace -- except the giant plastic waste sites scarring the landscape everywhere"
Now if you're talking park trails and other heavily populated places? That's different. It also isn't "Colorado" it is a specific sub-specification.
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*portable hole
Portal gun?
Just be mindful of where the exit is.
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You obviously have to plant it in the ground first, silly!
Be careful which hole you do this with. Some are invasive and it can wreak havoc on your environment.
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There's a lot of bad shit in our poop that isn't in most wild animal shit.
Particularly transmissible diseases for other humans.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Also we’re visitors.
At least in major watersheds the primary reason for picking up dog poop is because of the insane nitrogen content of the insane amounts of dog poop that’s generated. The environment isn’t ready for that influx.
Potential disease vector is 2, then it’s icky gross is 3
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Stop mixing it with broken glass and tossing it at other people's eyes. That's step one.
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Are you a horse?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]No of course not!
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It's very dry in most of the state so getting composting moving along can take some effort
If it is very dry, doesn't that also mean it is less likely to spread/leak into the aquifer?
E.g. dried cow-manure seems to be fine for the environment to handle.
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If it is very dry, doesn't that also mean it is less likely to spread/leak into the aquifer?
E.g. dried cow-manure seems to be fine for the environment to handle.
It's because herbivore shit is usually fine. Like you and I could have a shit-fight with horse poop and not get sick. Please don't, and especially please don't have a shit-fight with omnivore or even many carnivore shits.
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I've tried carrying a hole around in a bag but the darn thing always seems to get lost when it comes time to use it.
Rookie mistake. You have to be sure to use the whole bag. Anything less won't work.
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Rookie mistake. You have to be sure to use the whole bag. Anything less won't work.
I pack gallon bags in my back-country camping kit so logistics may be a challenge. Could leave the tent and sleeping bag behind in order to fit a sufficient volume of fiber and make it work though. Thanks for the tip!
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Will someone tell the animals ?
You are supposed to cover the hole with a relatively heavy rock to deter animals from digging it back up.
