[pct-l] TP decomposition

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

After you poop, whether you clean yourself with water or TP, you  
should wash your hands. And if you wash your hands, then it is not  
less healthy or clean to use water instead of TP. You wash in the  
shower, don't you?

If anything, it is cleaner because not only did you wash your hands,  
but you washed your butt, too. Also, I don't know if it's the same  
for everyone, but something about squatting down on the ground like  
that it all just comes out easier and cleaner to begin with.

I chose to go without TP because I didn't want to pack it out.  
Nothing to pack. I also chose to go without TP because I wanted to go  
as light as possible. Nothing to carry. It worked really well.

And somebody said that as a purist I should be against people living  
in wood houses if I don't like the idea of cutting down trees to make  
toilet paper. That's going too far. Making a house or a nice piece of  
furniture isn't the same kind of use as wiping your butt or blowing  
your nose.

On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:54 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> TP decomposition