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    • How far do you go before you go?

      How far do you go walk off the trail before taking a leak? 18
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        100 yards (1) 6%
      2.  
        100 feet (1) 6%
      3.  
        10 feet (7) 39%
      4.  
        Just pivot and aim (9) 50%
      How far do you go walk off the trail before taking a leak?
      The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
      Richard Ewell, CSA General

    • Bear in mind the distance removed from the trail varies dependant upon terrain, vegetation, and of course the presence of any easily offended parties.

      Lest we forget.....


      SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
      SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
      PFC Adam Harris - USA
      MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC

    • Dan76 wrote:

      Bear in mind the distance removed from the trail varies dependant upon terrain, vegetation, and of course the presence of any easily offended parties.
      Agreed. Because of the areas I usually have available for hiking, conscious concern is evenly split - environmentally and socially.
      *

      For once I'd just like to hear myself say, "Great job, self! Why don't you just take the day off."

    • What they said. I'm not going to pee in a water source, but pretty much anything else is fair game and my main concern is of a social nature; no one that doesn't want to watch me pee should'nt have to see me pee so my site selection is chosen accordingly.
      If your Doctor is a tree, you're on acid.

      The post was edited 1 time, last by Foresight ().

    • Definitely a matter of the surroundings. I don't like being watched. I don't go in water sources. I don't want to pee on fragile vegetation only to have porcupines tear it up for the salt. And I don't want to leave piles of yellow snow near the trail, or stink up the joint.

      If I have privacy, won't damage anything but the ubiquitous tangles of viburnum, raspberry and nettle, won't leave a stain or a stench for others, won't pollute a water source, and won't have it splash or run into my shoes, then wherever I'm standing is fair game for a whizz.
      I'm not lost. I know where I am. I'm right here.

    • socks wrote:

      I'd really like to know why 200 feet is the suggested distance to pee off trail...freaking ridiculous, I mean really, I should trample through prime vegetated tick habitat to take a squirt...don't think so.
      It's a generalization rule.

      Sort of like the USDA recommendation to cook all meat to 155 and poultry to 165. It's easier then try to remember to cook pork to 140, ground beef to 155, duck to whatever you want, salmon to 150, chicken to 160 and Turkey to 165.
      Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
      Dr. Seuss Cof123

    • Rasty wrote:

      socks wrote:

      I'd really like to know why 200 feet is the suggested distance to pee off trail...freaking ridiculous, I mean really, I should trample through prime vegetated tick habitat to take a squirt...don't think so.
      It's a generalization rule.
      Sort of like the USDA recommendation to cook all meat to 155 and poultry to 165. It's easier then try to remember to cook pork to 140, ground beef to 155, duck to whatever you want, salmon to 150, chicken to 160 and Turkey to 165.
      oh, I just go by color and feel, if it's purple and hard, clearly I've waited to long and will pee wherever.

    • Tuckahoe wrote:

      just pivot, whip it out and go. Of course I have an effective range of 100+ feet. :thumbsup:
      Hiking affects you differently from me then...
      My favorite hiking joke.
      The old hiker goes to the Dr and says he'd like a prescription for Viagra.
      The Dr says at your age that's perfectly understandable and starts to write it out. The hiker says can you put in there that they cut the tablet into quarters. The Dr says quarters! You won't get an erection with a quarter of a tablet. The hiker says erection! I don't want an erection! I just want to stop pissing on my boots.
      Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait.

    • OzJacko wrote:

      Tuckahoe wrote:

      just pivot, whip it out and go. Of course I have an effective range of 100+ feet. :thumbsup:
      Hiking affects you differently from me then...My favorite hiking joke.
      The old hiker goes to the Dr and says he'd like a prescription for Viagra.
      The Dr says at your age that's perfectly understandable and starts to write it out. The hiker says can you put in there that they cut the tablet into quarters. The Dr says quarters! You won't get an erection with a quarter of a tablet. The hiker says erection! I don't want an erection! I just want to stop pissing on my boots.
      does that really work, I mean, eh hmm...never mind :whistling:

    • OzJacko wrote:

      Tuckahoe wrote:

      just pivot, whip it out and go. Of course I have an effective range of 100+ feet. :thumbsup:
      Hiking affects you differently from me then...My favorite hiking joke.
      The old hiker goes to the Dr and says he'd like a prescription for Viagra.
      The Dr says at your age that's perfectly understandable and starts to write it out. The hiker says can you put in there that they cut the tablet into quarters. The Dr says quarters! You won't get an erection with a quarter of a tablet. The hiker says erection! I don't want an erection! I just want to stop pissing on my boots.

      And yet, hikers post all the time that the wont get out of their sleeping bags and tents to go piss on a tree and that they use a pee bottle... this is why I wont buy used pissy bedding.
      Of course I talk to myself... sometimes I need expert advice.

    • Tuckahoe wrote:

      And yet, hikers post all the time that the wont get out of their sleeping bags and .
      Okay ladies move on - male talk following...
      I hope that I am not unique but I find that while hiking I tend to make a Greek statue look well endowed, even in warmish weather. "Things" return to normality at night and the problem doesn't arise (pun not intended) in my tent. My strong preference is to get up and take a short walk if needed at night but on sub freezing nights on the AT I did resort to using a bottle because I really felt that cold. Unlike Milkman, I carved notches in the lid of the relevant Gatorade bottle and never reused that bottle.
      So I do not like using a bottle but exposure to sub freezing temps is a bigger dislike.
      End of personal information divulging....
      Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait.

    • OzJacko wrote:

      Tuckahoe wrote:

      just pivot, whip it out and go. Of course I have an effective range of 100+ feet. :thumbsup:
      Hiking affects you differently from me then...My favorite hiking joke.
      The old hiker goes to the Dr and says he'd like a prescription for Viagra.
      The Dr says at your age that's perfectly understandable and starts to write it out. The hiker says can you put in there that they cut the tablet into quarters. The Dr says quarters! You won't get an erection with a quarter of a tablet. The hiker says erection! I don't want an erection! I just want to stop pissing on my boots.
      Jeff Foxworthy and Larry having a conversation, Jeff is testing Larry's knowledge and asked him to use a sentence using European, Larry...."stop! European on my foot."
      I may grow old but I'll never grow up.

    • OzJacko wrote:

      Okay ladies move on - male talk following...I hope that I am not unique but I find that while hiking I tend to make a Greek statue look well endowed, even in warmish weather. "Things" return to normality at night and the problem doesn't arise (pun not intended) in my tent. My strong preference is to get up and take a short walk if needed at night but on sub freezing nights on the AT I did resort to using a bottle because I really felt that cold. Unlike Milkman, I carved notches in the lid of the relevant Gatorade bottle and never reused that bottle.

      Mere freezing temps do not deter me from a quick run outside. Deep winter in the Northeast does. I usually just want to get out of the wind, and generally can contort in such a way that fluid is transferred in the tent vestibule with nothing but snow beneath it. I have a wide-mouth Vitamin Water bottle that I use for the purpose since I don't drink that stuff. It has a clip more or less permanently affixed so it can hang from a gear loop or compression tie on my pack, since I don't want it inside. It's just a discomfort, not a catastrophe, if it gets lost, although I haven't lost one yet. It gets a vinegar bath when I get home. I've also at least once pitched my rainfly over a cathole. Anything to avoid getting my fundamentals out in that wind! (This was weather in which I was wearing facemask and goggles to hike.)

      I hear that the hammockers just point it over the edge.

      Old school mountaineering tents have a half-moon-shaped zipper in the floor. The configuration was advertised as a 'cook hole' for standing your stove on, but everyone knew what it really was for, and it wasn't cooking.
      I'm not lost. I know where I am. I'm right here.

    • OzJacko wrote:

      Tuckahoe wrote:

      And yet, hikers post all the time that the wont get out of their sleeping bags and .
      Okay ladies move on - male talk following...I hope that I am not unique but I find that while hiking I tend to make a Greek statue look well endowed, even in warmish weather. "Things" return to normality at night and the problem doesn't arise (pun not intended) in my tent. My strong preference is to get up and take a short walk if needed at night but on sub freezing nights on the AT I did resort to using a bottle because I really felt that cold. Unlike Milkman, I carved notches in the lid of the relevant Gatorade bottle and never reused that bottle.
      So I do not like using a bottle but exposure to sub freezing temps is a bigger dislike.
      End of personal information divulging....

      Of course I talk to myself... sometimes I need expert advice.

    • Drybones wrote:

      OzJacko wrote:

      Tuckahoe wrote:

      just pivot, whip it out and go. Of course I have an effective range of 100+ feet. :thumbsup:
      Hiking affects you differently from me then...My favorite hiking joke.The old hiker goes to the Dr and says he'd like a prescription for Viagra.
      The Dr says at your age that's perfectly understandable and starts to write it out. The hiker says can you put in there that they cut the tablet into quarters. The Dr says quarters! You won't get an erection with a quarter of a tablet. The hiker says erection! I don't want an erection! I just want to stop pissing on my boots.
      Jeff Foxworthy and Larry having a conversation, Jeff is testing Larry's knowledge and asked him to use a sentence using European, Larry...."stop! European on my foot."
      Jeff then asks him to use "horticulture" in a sentence. Larry says "you can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think".

    • rafe wrote:

      There are things I refuse to try because the cost of failure is just too high. Peeing into a bottle inside my tent is one of those.
      I see the practicality of it, especially when the risk is in creating one long icicle (or worse.) But since I've never done it, I'm hoping to get some practice before I actually need it. Now, hopefully my buddy Bill misses this thread cause I'm gonna ask to borrow his tent next weekend. :whistling:
      *

      For once I'd just like to hear myself say, "Great job, self! Why don't you just take the day off."