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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 ...
The Aspen Times

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 ...
New York Post

Mount Everest climbers now must pick up their own poop as mountain mess festers

Ambitious climbers set to tackle Mount Everest are now being told to pick up their own up poop, as the mountain’s home country Nepal aims to combat a longstanding and smelly problem. Climbers will now ...
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 ...