Re: [Paddlewise] Disposing of toilet paper.

From: Hank Hays <lhays_at_canby.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:47:35 -0700
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

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