Toiletpaper in winter

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Adi007

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I tried the snowball trick this weekend (well, we gotta make the most of the snow when we see it!!!! :-D ) and, well, yes, it works and nothing like what you'd expect.
 

Adi007

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Yes, I found that to be the case too. :-D
Viking said:
I told you so, making snow balls is a perfect way to wash your hands also.
 
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Due to global warming, it no longer snows in Suffolk UK so I will have to keep using spagnum moss But...being a good scout and prepared i take a quarter of a bog roll with me in my pack.
 

Eric_Methven

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I came across a brown smeared £20 note on a hike once. I pondered for a good three seconds on whether or not I should pick it up. I did pick it up and washed it in a nearby stream. It was dry by the time I got to the pub. The look on the landlord's face was amusing but he didn't say anything.

Eric
 
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Spikey DaPikey

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Eric_Methven said:
I came across a brown smeared £20 note on a hike once. I pondered for a good three seconds on whether or not I should pick it up. I did pick it up and washed it in a nearby stream. It was dry by the time I got to the pub. The look on the landlord's face was amusing but he didn't say anything.

Eric

Where's there's muck there's money :p :lmao:
 

torjusg

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Eric_Methven said:
I came across a brown smeared £20 note on a hike once. I pondered for a good three seconds on whether or not I should pick it up. I did pick it up and washed it in a nearby stream. It was dry by the time I got to the pub. The look on the landlord's face was amusing but he didn't say anything.

Eric
:lmao: :lmao:

The best one I have read in ages!! :lmao:
 

Geuf

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Freds Dad said:
Due to global warming, it no longer snows in Suffolk UK so I will have to keep using spagnum moss But...being a good scout and prepared i take a quarter of a bog roll with me in my pack.


it's the same in the netherlands. where ten years ago there was a blizzard raging outside by this time, it's now 17 degrees C. with sun, smog and rain :(



Anyway, about toiletpaper. a thing I heard seems to work excellent is to use nicely rounded pebbles found near a creek. or anywhere else for that matter. but when you think about it. why would you use the pebbles if you have a creek? well.. thought I should post it though :)
 

bambodoggy

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Tengu said:
I use moss too.


Don't forget people that moss takes rather a long time to grow and ripping it up and using it as loo paper is extreamly damaging....in this land of over population it's much better to remember to carry a little loo paper with you and to burn it after use.

Also suggestions of cleaning up in the creek aren't too good....others might be relying on that creak further down for clean water for their livestock and you're infecting it.
All No.2's shoud ideally be done over 100m from a water course and really should also be buried.

Look after what's left of our outdoors all we'll all end up bushcrafting in waders ;)

Cheers,

Bam. :)
 
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Geuf

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And there you're absolutely right. it's nice to get some feedback on your thoughts and realise that what you thought was a good thing to do is not always. So.. going for the pebbles next time :)


p.s. sorry to the folks down stream! won't do it anymore
 
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reminds me of that clip taken from 'one man and his dog': the old boy's chatting about the days events while his dog scoots along the ground past him with a look of relief on his face. think its a great way to get the job done, just check the run first...
 

Burnt Ash

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bambodoggy said:
Also suggestions of cleaning up in the creek aren't too good....others might be relying on that creak further down for clean water for their livestock and you're infecting it.
All No.2's shoud ideally be done over 100m from a water course and really should also be buried.

Just like all the bears, coyotes, foxes, badgers, mink, otters, deer, moles, voles, rats, geese, ducks, chuckawallas, etc., etc. ? They're all out there with their little folding spades, buryin their do-dos well away from water courses. Seen em do it! ;)

Burnt Ash
 

Voivode

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Burnt Ash said:
Just like all the bears, coyotes, foxes, badgers, mink, otters, deer, moles, voles, rats, geese, ducks, chuckawallas, etc., etc. ? They're all out there with their little folding spades, buryin their do-dos well away from water courses. Seen em do it! ;)

Burnt Ash

Of course not, but for some reason humans tend to carry pathogens that are particularly good at attacking humans. It's been reckoned that most of the Beaver Feaver (Giardiasis) to be found in the "pristine" waters out here (and we have quite a lot of it in our mountains) didn't come from the wildlife but from wilderness users who were sloppy with their hygene.
 

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