I use a cold steel Bushman knife. It was like $12 on sale, weighs less than 500 grams, and it lets me cut a hole in the turf or moss, remove the plug, defecate, wipe, and cover my shit with the soil cap. It doesn't have to be deep. Just enough to be secure. It cuts through roots just fine. Obviously it doesn't cut rock, but you just find a bit of soil that isn't rock, which isn't hard. I do this 50+ feet from a trail or 209 feet from water.
>>2199086After the first guy passes by, a third fellow goes hiking or whatever activity you were doing in the same area. He leaves trail to look at some wild flowers or collect some berries or climb a nearby rockface. He comes across a live turd and a bunch of moss and lichen choked out by plastered on TP, because a light rain and some wind uncovered his feces and TP instead of dissolving it like the retard thought.
I get it, in tropical places, it doesn't matter, there's enough nutrition in human feces that the insects of the jungle will make it disappear in less than a day. But the Northwoods isn't like that. The insect population isn't large enough or specialized enough to do that. And droughts happen too. I stopped for lunch on an island in the BWCA just before they kicked us all out 2 weeks ago and there was a dessicated human turd surrounded by TP on the island, and who knows how old it might have been? The TP looked like it had been rained on lightly, but we hadn't had measurable rain there in over a month. Was this a 6 week old turd? Maybe. Did the feller who dropped it on the moss cover it with leaves and sticks? Possibly. Was it still covered? No.
Bury your feces, it's not hard, you don't need to carry an etool like some autist, just bring a sturdy, sharp metal implement and be a reasonable person, please.
