There is nothing nicer than a quiet hike lasting from several days to several weeks or even months. However, in books praising travel and adventure, unpleasant facts that are inevitable in any journey are tactfully silent. A marching toilet is something that is not customary to talk about, but this is a problem that you will have to face. Especially in the coniferous forest.
Regular hike
In the modern world, almost everyone is used to exist inseparably from the benefits of civilization. In such conditions, even the smallest hike is an unfavorable environment. Moving away from the city to places where a person’s foot has not yet set foot, one has to say goodbye not only to mobile communications and the Internet, but also to electricity and comfort.
Thus, a weekend trip turns from a romantic adventure into an unusual and uncomfortable environment - already at the first satisfaction of a person’s natural needs. The fact is that having paper does not solve the problem with space. Where to go to the toilet if the camp is in an open field is an open question.
Organizing a camp toilet is a delicate issue. There are many ways, solutions and devices, but everything rests on laziness and budget. The simplest of them involve the use of objects of the animal world, that is, vegetation, as shelters from prying eyes. Others are various devices, tents and special equipment that no one will ever carry on a hiking trip.
Hiking
When walking on foot, two types of hiking toilet are most often used. Temporary and camp. A temporary toilet is set individually by each participant in the trip for themselves. This is done on short one-day parking. As a rule, tourists use bushes and folds of the area.
The camp toilet is already more serious. In some varieties of hiking there are either no trees, or the parking will be long. This is true in mountain hikes and with multi-day parking. The bottom line is simple - with the efforts of travelers, a latrine pit is dug in a secluded place and a “seat” is erected using logs. This toilet is used by all members of the expedition on foot. When the time comes to rent a camp, the latrine pit is covered with sand.
If you use the first method for multi-day parking, a tourist group will disorganize. Each participant in the campaign will work only for themselves, and the entire surrounding area will turn into a toilet, which is rather unpleasant.
In a car trip
Although car trips take place over long distances, they are much less complicated. Firstly, you can take many more things with you. For example, a portable camping toilet, which is a full-size plastic toilet with a waste container. In this case, separation from the benefits of civilization does not occur and there is no need to be puzzled by digging the latrine pit. Also, the machine allows you to take various shelters with you. For example, an awning for a toilet. Especially in case it impinges on in rain or heavy thunderstorm.
It looks like a tent
Camping toilet tent resembles a living tent. However, it can fit in full growth. Such a system has many advantages. The tent above the toilet protects people from the weather, and also provides protection from prying eyes. Often used in travels to the sea by the method of savages. Almost always combined with a portable dry closet. Nevertheless, it has a number of drawbacks - it warms up well in the sun, and ventilation leaves much to be desired.
There is a shower!
Absolutely everyone on trips dream of a shower with warm water and a normal latrine without mosquitoes and midges. Camping shower toilet solves this problem. As a rule, these are two separate tents of the same type. However, there are combined versions. At the same time, combined models take up less space, but are not very convenient.
A separate camp shower is a tent and a capacity of 20 or 40 liters. Some very expensive models even provide for heating water from a battery, solar panels or from a car battery.
Simple and uncomfortable
A folding toilet is a folding bucket with locking mechanisms. Often has 2 structural elements - a chair and a waste bucket. You can even take it on a hiking trip, because this device weighs very little. There is only one problem - someone should regularly wash and carry the bucket in a backpack, and no one wants to do this, which will lead to disputes in the tourist group.