Article: Pooping Perfectly in the Woods

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Bigfoot

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Bio degradable paper is available these days, it avoids the need to burn ( and also the potential to start a forest fire, as happened with some unfortunate soul last year).

I have never heard the "poop in the sea" theory - I can't help thinking that you would need to know the state of the tide to ensure that you don't get any "washback" to shore :)
 

Bowlander

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BG did recommend pooing into a bag and using it as a hot water bottle when he did that thing with Miranda. Probably best not to use smart price sandwich bags though.
 

tinderbox

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Smear a little around the orifice before squatting, then wipe it off afterwards. That way nothing attaches itself to you, no skidmarks.
 

Dano

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I'm a great fan of soft toilet tissue, its perhaps one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century and so for me camp pooping is dig, dump, burn, cover.

I think back to the horrid days of my youth and the dreaded Izal
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or as often called back then "John Wayne loo roll" because like the Duke, it was 'rough, tough and took crap off nobody', they were awful times. Then one day, the joy of Andrex was discovered, absolute bliss :)

I had to use moss once when with the boy scouts, since that trip loo roll has been at the top of my kit list.

Is that the shiny stuff like grease proof paper? I was shown a trick many years ago (unfortunately after having suffered the stuff for many years) the trick was to scrunch the sheet of paper up into a tight ball in between the palms of your hands (like making a plastercine ball) and then unwrap it leaving it fairly soft, nothing like your soft quilted 3ply though. I guess this information is well and truly obsolete today ;)
 

Flaxton

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In reference to RM, his courses always have toilet protocol in the introductions. It's probably TV editing that removes any reference.
 
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Bowlander

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In reference to RM, his courses always have toilet protocol in the introductions. It's probably TV editing that removes any reference.

Do they edit it out of his books as well - can't see any reference in Bushcraft.

Even my old Usborne book of the outdoors went into latrines in detail.
 

Bigfoot

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Is that the shiny stuff like grease proof paper? I was shown a trick many years ago (unfortunately after having suffered the stuff for many years) the trick was to scrunch the sheet of paper up into a tight ball in between the palms of your hands (like making a plastercine ball) and then unwrap it leaving it fairly soft, nothing like your soft quilted 3ply though. I guess this information is well and truly obsolete today ;)

That's the stuff I meant. Izal, not Sizal. Horrible stuff that was forced upon us in my younger camping years.
 
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My dogs normally snnaffle hooman poo if there is any about :(...

I remember my old collie once picking up what I thought was a bit of old food. I grabbed him an did a finger sweep to get it out of his mouth :yikes:
 

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