Here is another headline that made me do a double-take this morning:\
No More Privies, So Hikers Add a Carry-Along
So I decided to read it and low and behold, the highest outhouse in the world has been removed and hikers now have to bag their poop and net them to the outside of their packs. To quote the Times: "Yes you can take it with you, actually you must. So now when you hike you have to throw your poop out in a dumpster at the trail head (God only knows how nasty that will smell.):So far this year, more than 4,500 pounds of waste in Wagbags has been deposited in receptacles at the Whitney Portal trail head, all of it headed for landfills, where the bags are designed to biodegrade over six to nine months.
And many people have been missing their outhouse, which was behind a rock and open on three sides (no peeking.):
“I do miss it,” Mr. Nelson said. “It was a great place to get out of the wind. It was really a luxury to have it up here.”
Oh, yes outhouse are great places to go and smell the fresh air. This is another reason not to want to go hiking, because I sure a hell don't what to carry my poop around.
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