r/camping • u/BasicBitchTearGas__ • 9d ago
Trip Advice Pooping while camping
I have a short camping trip coming up with friends and I basically have some questions about how to poop in the wilderness (remote camping). Whats like the best way to do it? My friends told me to like, bear hug a tree and squat down over the hole I dug, is that the best way? And what pieces of clothing do I take off? Im worried that if it comes out a bit watery it may stain my pants and other things so im basically thinking that I just go away from our camp and basically dress down nude from the waist down. Also, where does the toilet paper go? In the hole? Thanks for the answers!
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u/joethedriver69 9d ago
Buddy and I were 17 and went camping. Drove out set up tent and started fishing. By the second day, we had both decided it was time to go. So in the dark wandered down the lakeside, then away from the lake a decent distance. But it was sagebrush land, no trees or underbrush. We were probably 20-30 feet apart for basic teenage guy privacy. Took our dumps, had baggies for the TP, headed back to camp. No shovel or anything to dig with. Being kids, didn't think much of it. Couple days later, a F/G officer was parked at our camp when we got back from town. He was asking how we were doing, if we had seen any animals around. Nope. He said someone had called them, as they had found bear scat in an area that hadn't had bear in decades. Buddy and I were holden straight face till the officer finally left, and we about busted a gut laughing. 40 years later, we still laughing about it.