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A Colorado Company Wants to Change the Way Hikers Poop in the Backcountry

This past summer, hikers on Colorado’s highest peak, 14,438-foot Mount Elbert, were met by a peculiar welcome committee. Volunteers from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative handed out WAG bags near a ...
The Denver Post

There’s a pooping problem on Colorado’s 14ers. Here’s what’s being done to help flush it away.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A crusade to combat the proliferation of poop in Colorado’s backcountry entered a new frontier this week with the creation of a “Clean 14” initiative ...
Vail Daily

If given the proper tools, will hikers pack out their poop? A study of Colorado’s busiest 14er explored this and more

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...
Westword

Leave No Trace, Behind: Rocky Mountain National Park’s pack-out poop bag program

Pack your poop, people: This week the Fort Collins Coloradoan and LovelandConnection.com are reporting on a new program at Rocky Mountain National Park to distribute free bags for packing out human ...
Yahoo

How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers

A pilot program to distribute waste bags to hikers on Mount Elbert in Colorado successfully cut down the amount of human waste on the massive mountain. Shari Edelson, CC BY-ND If you’re one of the 63 ...