[quote name='Ron Hood' date='May 3 2005, 10:54 PM']One Forest Service guide book, written by either a complete tyro or by as hard assed a ranger as ever strode a trail, recommended wiping with rocks and PINE CONES! Right on. (As close as I could ever come to the author of that was the intimation that the book was written by a female college intern majoring in Ecology. I wonder what ecology she harbored in those nether regions. THAT incidentally is a great topic for dinner conversations.)
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I like to leave my fecal material behind once I excrete it, so the ass rag never caught on with me. Usually I have some TP, which I bury after use.
River rocks will do in a pinch. You soon learn to appreciate the qualities of the different textures.
Speaking of pinecones, they do have a definite directionality to them. One direction is good for the brutal scraping of quantities of material, the other direction for a velvety clensing dab of the nether regions.
Moss is a particular favorite of mine.
Watch out for stinging nettles and other leaves with spines.
[quote name='Ron Hood' date='May 6 2005, 09:57 PM']Through this race to destruction I had one tool with which to seal each connection and that was "Wood" as alluded to by the above link. In time my envious male buddies began to call me the "Wood Master" and since I also spent much of my time in the mountains the name was a double entendre.
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Interesting ... I've always just used the flesh that God gave me. What kind of wood did you use to fabricate your implement(s)? What is the best knife for carving them? What sizes did you find to be the most popular? Were any of your friends bothered by splinters?
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