Where to put toilet paper in the mountains?
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| VanSims30. 07. 2010 16:33:57 |
OK, we've already touched on big needs in the mountains in the psych topic. I hope I haven't reopened old wounds for someone just by mentioning this topic.  Let me also say that I have nothing against shits in the hills (neither dog nor human) as long as they are at least a couple of dozen meters from the path preferably behind a rock or bush.
But then the problem arises because people after doing their business also dispose of toilet paper. And if shit is already biological waste that actually benefits mountain vegetation as fertilizer, toilet paper is waste (although still faster degradable than regular paper, plastic or tin). So what to do with it?
To me personally at least, I don't feel like putting it in a bag (preferably plastic, which again means pollution, although in the valley). Lonely Planet in its mountain guides advises burning toilet paper, but I wouldn't play with fire in the hills, except really on bare rocks. I also tried the Muslim way with a water bottle that I carried (solely) for that purpose but somehow it didn't go (seems they have a better grip for it  ).
So what to do? Does anyone have an idea?
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| lynx30. 07. 2010 16:39:34 |
cover it all with dead biomass and some stone so it doesn't blow away.
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| JusAvgustin30. 07. 2010 17:00:36 |
I already experienced a Czech in front of me on the fixed rope "relieving" himself right in the middle of the wall so that... don't know if it was fear or he came to Triglav just to "shit". no comment...
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| VanSims30. 07. 2010 22:00:11 |
Somehow it's clear to every normal person that you don't do that in the middle of the path because of unwritten behavior rules. But since unwritten rules don't apply anymore today, we shouldn't be surprised by some individuals... 
I meant to open this topic more as an ecological debate.
Oh, turbo otherwise problems in our life are there to solve them not to avoid them. It seems most silly to me that solvable problems would spoil or shorten my pleasures.
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| Medvedka30. 07. 2010 22:37:51 |
What the heck, some people deal withIf the need strikes you, you do it somewhere nobody sees you, right. Paper?! Sure, I wipe with paper (not with some mountain flower leaf) and usually throw it next to the shit so as not to disturb the flies that are already happily munching. As turbo said, paper obviously decomposes in a very short time.
Regards
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| sunflower31. 07. 2010 11:02:06 |
Diapers.....or men's: http://www.tena.si/Moski/.....just dehydrate well so the shit is as solid as possible.....
(stupid question - stupid answer)
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| Karletto31. 07. 2010 15:55:12 |
you can also bury it army style if there's any soil.
shitty question - shitty answer
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| Enka14. 08. 2010 00:11:24 |
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| ljubitelj gora14. 08. 2010 13:21:07 |
Don't reinvent hot water, toilet paper you can easily leave a bit off the marked path, just cover it with something
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| BACEK JON14. 08. 2010 13:47:57 |
WC paper, paper tissues and paper towels belong to biological waste because they are degradable, so I see no problem if you veer a bit off the path and do it and you can do that without a bad conscience.
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| peter skala14. 08. 2010 15:46:06 |
From an ecological point of view the best is that we all kill ourselves. There'll be one big pile of shit, but nature will balance it! You just can't believe it......
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| matjaz114. 08. 2010 20:12:14 |
I always wrap my little poo, stuff it in a polyvinyl bag, store it in backpack next to sandwich, take it down to valley and dispose at home in biological waste bin - I recommend also to all others who argue on forum about such important topic or that those who have problems with toilet paper go to hills in Pampers diapers. And lots of enjoyment to all in hills and safe step.
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| ljubitelj gora14. 08. 2010 20:20:27 |
@matjaz1
Don't fuck around, saying that you really do that
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| marjana14. 08. 2010 21:39:34 |
While reading all these shits I laughed heartily. I think every mountaineer does it as befits in the mountains. And let it be enough.
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| Santi15. 08. 2010 00:12:12 |
Best to pee yourself, then rub your bare ass on nettles, so you pollute nothing with paper, and you walk half faster, given that some of you are fully obsessed with these times
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| heinz15. 08. 2010 07:41:21 |
I suggest to the administrator the deletion of the picture and comments of imbecilic authors who certainly seriously dirty the reputation of the portal hribi.net. Already the title "where with WC paper in mountains" hints at such an author.
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| JusAvgustin15. 08. 2010 08:15:30 |
tadej, in the name of all who have no problems where and how to "dispose" of our load, I ask you to delete the topic so no other "pearl" appears. Under santi and heinz I fully subscribe.
Lpp
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| antik15. 08. 2010 08:47:07 |
I once near the top of Raduha had to shit, so I dug a hole in the snow and shat into the hole.
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| VanSims15. 08. 2010 08:52:15 |
I also agree that the topic should be removed, because it didn't achieve its purpose.
I see that Slovenians (unlike e.g. Americans, whom we otherwise consider boozers and who have a whole book on this) are still deeply at the level of Šentflorjanska mentality, where anyone who thinks a bit differently, proposes some new idea (even if strange), says something not in line with someone else's mindset,... is automatically labeled as (just quoting the predecessor) an imbecile. This applies especially to topics from the intimate area.
The purpose of opening the topic wasn't to attract people who would 'dirty the reputation' and write nonsense but a discussion about this slightly different topic, slightly already basically intended ironically and yes, I admit also somewhat provocatively.
Slovenians have again failed the test,...
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| heinz15. 08. 2010 13:42:36 |
For some the answer to the posed question is so difficult that they need a discussion and these same even buy books on the topic. Yes, Americans are really so "advanced", or able to sell even something like that to uneducated kids. They would probably sell them even what's on the photo. To whom? Maybe to advanced Great-Slovenes!
Where with the paper? Horrible!
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