Feces Disposal Method (NOT)

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ZoNiE

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Recently, we camped up on the Mogollon Rim at FR 9350, our favorite place. There were bags of shit that were piled up behind a tree with a big rock on it. Presumably, someone had a seat and bucket or such apparatus which used bags. They didn't pack them out.

NOT the way to dispose of shit.

We picked up a full bag of trash.
 
I've encountered something similar at at a few different campsites. One was just a turnout on a forest road near Big Sur in California. There was toilet paper all over the place in the bushes in the area. Another was at a free campground in the Sequoia National Forest. Much like what you encountered, there were bags of poop piled up next to a tree. There was also trash all over the place. I picked up a lot of the trash, but left the poop there.
 
There is growing trend of not exercising "personal responsibility" and those people are ruining it for everyone else. Nothing surprises me anymore.
 
Sadly, it's selfish shits like that (pardon my pun) who always end up ruining things for all the rest of us........

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For that humans are supposed to be the highest order in the animal kingdom, we sure are the dumbest and most selfish beings. I wished people would just dig a hole, poop in it, cover it up, done. Don't leave poop out in the open, whether bagged or not. I personally hate plastic bags. Not good for the environment.
 
I just saw a funny YT video pertaining to the topic. Here's the link. If the link doesn't work, the video is titled "Icky Sticky Bucket Song..." by The Mobile Traveler. Enjoy LOL

 
Here are (were) my methods for getting rid of the bodily outputs when out in nature (which in my area means "the woods"), mostly based on my readings about composting and how important the carbon:nitrogen balance is to getting a nice, non-disgusting pile. Also moisture, air, etc., but C:N ratio was the key for me. I'm a smoker, but I think these would work for all but the most sensitive noses. For shit (including used tp) and puke: Dig a hole (not necessarily a deep one but enough to hold everything), then mix the whatever you're getting rid of all together in it along with some carbon-based nature detritus (crushed dried leaves seem to work best, don't need as much if you're a tp hog), then covering that with more carbon-detritus and then enough dirt so it won't be gross if someone steps on that spot. Using this method, it all turns to dirt pretty quick - it takes maybe half a week before it's unrecognizable that somebody shitted there. For pissing in one spot long-term, make a pile of dried leaves or whatever carbon you can scrounge and piss into that. Iirc, a pile about 2 ft. diameter and about 1 ft. high lasted me a good few weeks before needing changing, and by that time most of the leaf mass was nice and decomposed and basically already dirt. My pile was in a spot exposed to rain. Iirc, it smells a little bit during strong rain, hot weather, and when it needs changing. I read once about a suspended bag of sawdust that was used as a urinal at an agroforestry office for several months without smell issues. This was in an old book that was scanned in by Google, and I didn't save the link, but still, interesting idea along these lines.
 
This is definitely a problem. I was recently up in Oregon on BLM land just west of Terrebonne on the cliffs above the Deschutes River, and as it turns out, inherited a beautiful campsite just having been vacated by a very "famous" youtuber and his friends a few days beforehand. There were 2 fire rings full of garbage, 18 empty beer bottles and 20 empty beer cans scattered on the ground, plus a host of wrappers etc. I even inherited their nasty packrat. I picked up everything over the course of a few days. No poopadoop, thank the heavens. Still ... they left a mess. I plan to give this guy a message one day when I run into him. 

Actually, the really bad part was the friggin "locals" would come in in the afternoons in their friggin pickup trucks with their friggin semi-automatic weapons, and shoot the hell out of bottles set on the rocks. Totally destroyed 2 nearby campsites that way. Total morons.
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More to the point, I did come up with a viable method to dispose of my own poopadoop. I use the kitty-litter in a plastic bag method. I discovered the best way to dump it is into "pit" toilets in nearby campgrounds, poopadoop only, and definitely "not" the plastic bags. It's not so bad enveloped in kitty-litter. Then get rid of the empty plastic bags with normal garbage.
 
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For that humans are supposed to be the highest order in the animal kingdom....
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Exclusive of locals with obligatory pickup trucks and obligatory semi-automatic weapons.
 
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