How to Wash Dishes While Camping in the Backcountry
These Leave No Trace principles should guide you when you’re on dish duty.
These Leave No Trace principles should guide you when you’re on dish duty.
The tenets of good backcountry etiquette and wilderness preservation.
This is a story about poop. It’s about the principles of Leave No Trace camping not changing exactly, but evolving in the way we need to apply them. Because we are loving our wild places to death by treating them like giant toilets. The focus here will be on ‘frontcountry’ areas which I will define as relatively remote yet road-accessible areas with little or no services, typically managed by the National Forest Service (NFS) or Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These playgrounds are among the crowning jewels of the mountain west and some of the finest rewards for anyone seeking the freedom of the Great American Road Trip. There’s little more satisfying to a vagabond van-lifer than seeing a brown wooden sign that reads “Entering [insert name] National Forest”, knowing…
We were pioneering a route and we wanted to tread lightly.