At 10:03 AM 4/28/98 -0700, Jackie Fenton wrote: >> Two different BC guide companies I have been out with, had us burn the >> toilet paper. Is this not considered acceptable? It may not be in dry >> areas where fire danger is a problem. What do you all think? > >Just a word of caution about that, though... if it's dry and windy or >fire-hazard conditions, forget it. I'm sure this sounds like a no-brainer >to most, but one of the biggest forest fires occurring in California was >started by a woman attempting to be a good camper by burning her toilet >paper. Paper is more likely to send up hot ash when burned. I was on a Grand Canyon run in 1994, about a week after a backpacker burned most of Deer Creek Valley down trying to burn TP. Why'd it have to happen to such a pretty area? Sniff, sniff.... Hank Hays *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 29 1998 - 17:06:35 PDT
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