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Homemade poop tube 27-May-2004 At 1:50:16 PM Robb

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decided against making a poo tube for el cap . didnt have the money or the time. we planned and climbed the triple direct in 3 days which meant not too much of the brown stuff. As a result of not having a crap at camp 5 on the nose on the last morning my climbing partner shat himself midway thru the day and promtly ran for the bushes when we topped out.

We inspired a few parties we passed along the way with our cunning invention who always dreaded the job of emptying the toob out afterwards..

we bought a stuff sack from the mountain shop and put some duk tape around it.
hey presto. then hang it under the haul bag.

warning - it can get a bit funky after a few days.

get some large paper bags - its to hard to aim with the smaller "vomit" bags as i found out on Ozy the previous year. after usage scrunch up the paper bag (great for those chilly mornings on a wallwhen the fingers are cold and the contents are body temperature) and put it in a zipock bag and dump in the stuff sack.

on returning to civilisation, promply dump the sack and its treasures into a big bear proof bin. no messy cleanup or exploding tubes (that reminds me of another story ....but more on that later).

best of luck