when you climb a tall mountain, kindly don't leave behind yer poop

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Sanitation problems for [Mt. McKinley] climbers

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Seriously. Happens all the time. I was up in Independence Pass, CO just a couple weeks ago and there, in the boot pack, a steaming turd. Multiply this by about a million and you've got Denali. Yosemite is worse, as I understand it: instead of using a Poop Tube (PVC piping) a small but disgusting segment of the population will just CHUCK THEIR SHIT OFF (of El Cap or Half Dome, that is). Grody.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

explain the poop tube more please.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I was going to start this thread solely because of the quote, "They think they're going out on a pristine climb and there's virus-laden poo all around them."

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Poop Tube: if you're up on a big wall (ie - a cliff like El Capitan that takes more than a few days to finish) you somewhere to shit, right? So, instead of pooping in a bag, in a crack or flinging monkey-steez your poo of the cliff onto unsuspecting tourists, you shit into a length of PVC piping that you haul up with you. Then you chuck it in the bin (or reuse it).

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

When they pitch their shit into space, do they holler "Gardyloo!", as Edinburgh etiquette (never mind the oxymoron) requires?

The poop tube is a short, squat piece of PVC pipe, threaded at both ends, with a cap screwed onto each end. After one has pooped, one unscrews one of the caps and inserts the poop into the tube, rescrewing the cap back on when this operation is complete. The filled tube is carried with you back to 'civilization'.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

this is a picture of a poop tube:

http://www.fastq.com/~jrschroeder/graphics/pt02.jpg

and a webpage on how to make yer own poop tube.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

A discussion of big-wall pooping: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=65324#msg65410

(scroll down for pictures!)

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Don’t hang those things in the sun for a year…..true story.

Once someone hung one of these poop tubes on the fence at the Sar Cache. It was there for over a year. One day it exploded violently spewing it’s deadly contents all over the yard. I had to get the hazmat suit, gas mask and fire hose to clean up the sh-it!

Another time someone left one over by the outhouse at ranger rock. They labeled it BOMB. The bomb squad from Fresno had to come to defuse it. The park was taking no chances with how the current world in it’s volatile state can be.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

(the above was from gibby's link -- NOT from my personal experience or knowledge!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

so mountain climbing is also for anyone that has ever wanted to shit in those pneumatic tubes they use at the bank drive-thru?

― matlewis, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Yes! One catch: you've got to carry it around with you for a week or so. Want to sound "with it?" Call them burritos!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

so mountain climbing is also for anyone that has ever wanted to shit in those pneumatic tubes they use at the bank drive-thru?

IE, everyone?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Totally! Ever wanted an excuse to eat raw butter? Now's your chance!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Who cooks their butter before eating it???

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Foolish person: I mean eat it like a candy bar! Because it's cold outside and you need FAT.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I opened this thread and just read the last post. I didn't know we had switched from talking about poo to talking about butter.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

(ow my sides ow)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

We can go back to poo, if you like. Though I would strongly recommend against eating it like a candy bar.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I opened this thread and just read the last post. I didn't know we had switched from talking about poo to talking about butter.

GOLDFINGER ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

or BUTTERFINGER

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

http://bradkent.com:8080/wrappers/wrappers/nestle/butterfinger-bbs.gif

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Those would be so much easier to store and dispose of, let me tell you. Why did god favor rabbits, huh?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to see a rabbit try to climb a mountain!

― matlewis, Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nps.gov/romo/images/resources/checklists/mammals/nuttals_cottontail.jpg

BRING IT.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.huckleberryhollow.com/snowboardingbunnys-ma/snowboardingbunnys-ma-cover.jpg

i spoke too soon

― matlewis, Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Step off. Bunnies be shreddin'!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Don't leave behind your children, either:

A family was rescued after climbing to the top of Mount Snowdon - because trains from the summit don't run in winter.
The couple and their little girls, aged five, three and two, hiked to the 3,560ft peak and planned to get the train back down.
But they were stranded in temperatures of minus 19C after being told the next train is not due until the end of March.
The family had to be airlifted off the mountain by rescue helicopter and needed hospital treatment for hypothermia.
Rescuers today blasted the family describing their actions as "ridiculous".
Dr Gwyn Roberts of the Llanberis Mountain Rescue team said: "The trains stop running in September and don't start again until the Spring.
"We would have expected them to check the train timetable before they set off.
"We were horrified to discover there were young children on the mountain."

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

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