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One good thing about the Q, with the ability to stay anywhere you can set-up a camp, you can avoid overused areas much more than in the BW.

I don't mind doing a little "house keeping" but I'm not spending hours cleaning up someone's mess, especially if that mess involves fecal matter. :P[/quote]


In the BW you don't encounter this problem because there is a place to do your business.  In 42 years of BWCA camping I have never once found TP in the fire area, and only on one occasion can I remember policing it up from around a campsite (a mess behind a big rock on a well-used site on Sawbill--didn't involve feces.)  TP in the fire area?  Doesn't sound very palatable to me.  May not be a health hazard, but still. . .I cook there!   :P

But we were told by some USFS firemen we chanced to meet on, coincidentally, Fire Lake  ;) that they had just finished extinguishing a fire that had been smoldering for days in the duff.  They said people have no idea how a little spark can sometimes lie dormant in the duff and later ignite and smolder for a long time, eventually igniting into a wildfire.

When away from a latrine (or when I was camping in the Q, admittedly many years ago) I dug a cat hole and buried.  I guess if I were to go there today I would still do that.  I certainly wouldn't leave a mess for others.

But I don't think I would burn.  In the hole or in the fire, either.  Ick.