WAG Bags for Poop Packing

that makes sense, good points

I think the question here is “Why not dry poop on the rocks overnight?” and I don’t have answer for that personally other than I’d rather not be the person who is in charge of the poop loading/unloading. Also, attracting animals seems like a potential issue.

As I said I’ve done this many times. In the desert. Not on mountain tops. I’ve never seen marmots in these areas. It dries out. I’ve never put it in containers though. My plan is to have it in containers maybe 5-6 hours a day which would be the hottest time of day so perhaps that might be an issue but I doubt it. Humidity in the desert area around 4 corners is nearly always below 20% and often 10%. I might go out next week and do an experiment. Set up a game camera. As I said though, while the poop goes away completely over a month’s time, I’ve never seen any sign of animals messing with it during 3-4 days.

That’s a good point on the local humidity although I suspect it isn’t that much an issue. N=1 sample near river: The first time I did this was 50 years ago at the break in the Mariscal Canyon on the Rio Grande although we weren’t packing up the poop and transporting it. We camped in one spot for  4 or 5 days. We had a designated poop place. After a few days the original poops were a fraction of their original size and pretty innocuous. They weren’t molested by animals.  I’m going out to the Colorado next week. I think I’ll bring a hygrometer with me. I’m thinking it might be more important whether the poop is in an open environment or shielded by vegetation. My gut feeling is that humidity is higher around and under vegetation than on rock that is exposed to the sky. I’m spitballing here but soil can definitely hold moisture and if it’s under trees or other vegetation I think it will be substantially cooler than rock that is in the sun all day.