Human Waste in the Wild
In the country’s remotest, rockiest reaches it can be tough to find a place to go to the bathroom. That’s a problem in some popular parks, and in places, rangers require you pack it up and take it out. Jason Albert reports on some successes and failures, and how rangers try to bring climbers around by talking face to face.
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