Make sure to know which direction the trail is when walking 30 m away from it. People died following this rule. Well, I know of one person that died because of it.
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unmagical@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoA 15cm (6 inch) deep hole 30m (100 feet) from the trail or water.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
tbf 30m is an arbitrary distance, just go as far as you can reach without losing sight of the trail and maybe dig an extra deep hole instead.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Will someone tell the animals ?
bobzer@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There’s a lot of bad shit in our poop that isn’t in most wild animal shit.
Particularly transmissible diseases for other humans.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Also were visitors.
At least in major watersheds the primary reason for picking up dog poop is because of the insane nitrogen content of the insane amounts of dog poop that’s generated.
Potential disease vector is 2, then it’s icky gross is 3
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
is there a general term for this? it’s something that applies basically whenever we humans do anything these days and yet barely anyone thinks about it, it’d be good to have a word to throw at people when telling them about it
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Spicy surprise
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You are supposed to cover the hole with a relatively heavy rock to deter animals from digging it back up.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
He meant to tell animals not to shit less then 30m from the trail.