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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8112 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #20 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 1:14pm
	TomT wrote on Jun 27^th, 2019 at 11:33am: The TP pile looks like someone didn't bother with a hole at all. Just like a dog in the woods and then tossed the TP on the ground. I'll never understand that. Just laziness I guess. No consideration of anyone but their self. Didn't someone post that the Park wants Q travelers to burn their TP from now on? I don't know how they think that will work or can be enforced at all? People that drop TP bombs all over the CAMPSITE no-less are NOT going to burn their TP if they're too lazy and inconsiderate to at least cover it with some duff. About the only thing that MIGHT work is if the Rangers caught someone red-handed doing it and made an EXAMPLE out of them and let it be well known. Make them leave the park immediately and maybe a fine or one year ban from going to ANY Canadian Wilderness parks? Probably won't happen but I'd be all for it if it did. I burn my TP now but not in the fire pit. I have a method but it's NOT for everyone because it requires some COMMON SENSE and that's in short supply in the TP bomb crowd.


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MossBack Inukshuk Offline Posts: 505 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2010	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #21 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 3:22pm
	So the new policy asks everyone to burn their TP. They also want all “transactions” taking place well back in the woods, away from camp and away from the water. But they also want a group of sometimes irresponsible people lighting fires in small dug holes on combustible duff in the woods and hoping they will always get the TP fires put completely out? This would seem like asking for disasters. Are there any specifics during the Rangers discussions of this policy, that would better define the How-To details? I assume I am missing something here? MB


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MossBack Inukshuk Offline Posts: 505 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2010	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #22 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 3:25pm
	Can we also assume that a Fire Ban in effect negates the TP Burning request?


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jimmar Inukshuk Offline Posts: 865 Location: SE Michigan Joined: Feb 1^st, 2006	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #23 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 4:32pm
	I was told by the ranger in the Atikokan office that they "request you burn it in the campfire". Assuming you are a campfire effiecienado even in a week long soak. I got the feeling it was more of a suggestion than a regulation. I just don't want my Lake Trout grilled over a fresh wad of used TP, but we go along with the request when convenient.


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Solus Inukshuk Offline Posts: 967 Location: Northern Minnesota Joined: Oct 6^th, 2006	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #24 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 4:45pm
	The policy as outlined by rangers during my last three seasons in going through PP was burn the TP in fire pit or pack it out. During a fire ban they prefer you to pack out but accept burying it at least 6" deep as an alternative. A simple solution to the problem is to pick-up one of the many scrolls of birch bark that litter the forest floor on your way DEEP into the woods. Secrete your used TP in your quite combustable birch bark caddy. Place caddy on fire, or in fire pit. Burn contents completely. Add a small pile of the dry twigs that are everywhere around the fire pit to make sure burn is complete. Don't fret about it. It's their park. Respect their wishes.


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8112 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #25 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 4:46pm
	jimmar wrote on Jun 27^th, 2019 at 4:32pm: I was told by the ranger in the Atikokan office that they "request you burn it in the campfire". Assuming you are a campfire effiecienado even in a week long soak. I got the feeling it was more of a suggestion than a regulation. I just don't want my Lake Trout grilled over a fresh wad of used TP, but we go along with the request when convenient. How much you wanna bet that the next "trend" in Turd Blossom Bombs will be the people that do it all around the campsites will now use the FIRE PIT as the toilet as they exit camp? In their minds, that's easier than taking used TP out of the woods and risk getting some poop on them.


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MossBack Inukshuk Offline Posts: 505 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 23^rd, 2010	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #26 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 7:36pm
	OK, you knew someone would do it, so here it is if you really want to look. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) I recall using an incinerating toilet somewhere outside the USA. I wonder how long in will be before there is a lightweight collapsible model that runs on IsoButane cylinders? MB


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8112 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #27 - Jun 27^th, 2019 at 7:43pm
	Solus wrote on Jun 27^th, 2019 at 4:45pm: The policy as outlined by rangers during my last three seasons in going through PP was burn the TP in fire pit or pack it out. During a fire ban they prefer you to pack out but accept burying it at least 6" deep as an alternative. A simple solution to the problem is to pick-up one of the many scrolls of birch bark that litter the forest floor on your way DEEP into the woods. Secrete your used TP in your quite combustable birch bark caddy. Place caddy on fire, or in fire pit. Burn contents completely. Add a small pile of the dry twigs that are everywhere around the fire pit to make sure burn is complete. Don't fret about it. It's their park. Respect their wishes. A Common Sense approach to the problem. I scavenge Birch Bark every trip across a portage. One of the best fire starters ever. Sadly the TP Bombs folks won't do what you suggested, just the people that ALREADY do the right thing.


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8112 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #28 - Jun 29^th, 2019 at 12:02pm
	I didn't know the Native People had B1 Stealth Bombers? That painting sure looks like one OR maybe a UFO.


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solotripper Inukshuk Offline Posts: 8112 Location: clarkston MI Joined: Mar 14^th, 2005	Re: 2019 - Picture of the day - POD (cont. 25) Reply #29 - Jul 3^rd, 2019 at 11:22am
	Is that a deer?


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