Originally Posted By: dbd
Any suggestion that the comments are necessary to inform the Forest Service of solar toilets is silly. (Of course they know about solar toilets, they've burned them down! smile ).

Actually, its not silly to inform Inyo of the Rocky Mountain NP Engineer's Performance Report on Backcountry Solar Toilets. 1) They claimed toilets wouldn't work, which is a major reason why we have Wag Bags today. 2) The current Forest Supervisor had never seen this information.

You can read a lot of complaining about wag bags on this and other forums, but at least I did something about it. I laid out the facts about how the environmental review was not completed properly, I countered the notion that solar toilets somehow won't work, and I got them rethinking this problem. If the hiking community supports toilets, perhaps they will give them another try. I'm not holding my breath because Wag Bags are cheap and easy to hand out.