The PCTA did a Toilet Paper Survey and asked 2013 thru hikers, "How do you plan to dispose of your toilet paper?"
http://www.pcta.org/2013/pct-toilet-...-survey-14994/
How would you respond to this survey?
1) Hide it under a rock. Good enough for Reese Witherspoon - good enough for me.
2) I'll go old school and burn it. Whadda ya mean "Burn Ban"?
3) Bury it. 4-6" deep... or 2" or 12"... something like that.
4) Pack it in, pack it out. I got my double baggies all ready. AND my wag bags... for the ultimate in "Pack it in, pack it ALL out!"
5) Toilet paper? Who uses TP!?!?! I subscribe to the Andrew Skurka Poo Clinic method. Got a water bottle for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwmwxkD86Ec
6) A combo of methods.
I was actually shocked that some AT thru hikers were going to use some of the least LNT TP disposal methods (under a rock, burn, etc) on the PCT. How can this be?
Then I recently met my first real life AT thru hiker. Met The Brain http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=484667 when he was on a training/shake down hike preparing for the PCT. I was shocked to find that he only pooped in a cat hole TWICE on the whole AT and used privies practically 100% of the time. It is possible to do the whole AT and poo in a privy the whole way? I've pooped in more holes than many AT thu hikers? No way this can be true!
OKAY... that explains a LOT. This might be why PCT thru hikers who have previous AT experience might be clueless about pooping in California!
I have actually been wondering about this for over a year! lol