If its any consolation, you may find on doing a little research that no teenage girl, or anyone else, has to crap in a plastic bag in the Whitney Zone. Since there was never a Forest Order, there is no rule, and it is a completely unenforceable policy. Oh sure, they can withhold your permit until you take one, and they use all kinds of words like "only acceptable method" in their flyers and notices. But read 'em carefully: nothing Inyo publishes says that the usual methods are prohibited in the Whitney Zone, or that use of the wag bag is required. I challenge anyone, with all due respect to those hard-working rangers we know and love, to quote chapter and verse on the regulation that would be violated by using in the Whitney Zone human waste disposal methods that are acceptable in all other regions of Inyo and SEKI. I do not believe that any such regulation exists.
