Sitting pretty

On our last trip to Sequoia/Kings Canyon (SEKI) we visited a few lakes that get a little more traffic than is usual in the backcountry. Every area deals with this in a different way, since that additional traffic has three major impacts on the wilderness experience. One of those is the toilet facilities. Too many backpackers can have a very ugly impact on a heavily used campsite area. So in a few places in the backcountry, you'll find a vault toilet. It's not exactly our idea of wilderness, but we understand the problem, and we don't have a better solution.

We were particularly taken with this toilet at Twin Lakes in SEKI. It was certainly not your traditional vault toilet, and M was quite sure she we never find it easy to use...but still; nice effort. And a lovely view from the throne.




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That is certainly an upgrade from one I found at Lake Edison. That was just a box over a hole in the ground. No fancy walls.... just trees.

Looks like a fine facility to me.

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Dummies! That's where the bears do it.

Must be the mama bear's because she put the toilet seat back down.

In Yellowstone, and at Grand Canyon's Clear Creek area, they had composting toilets, big round giant plastic things w/ a seat at one point. And no screening. You got an upgrade.

Best pit toilet...Boulder Pass, GNP.

And no, that's not my ass.

Just as scenic, but with a little more privacy (in British Columbia):

I love this thread.

Ever since my Brother and I rented a Fire Lookout called Acker Rock in Southern Oregon about ten years ago, we have been on the lookout for "Loo's with a view", or exotic back country toilets. The toilet for the lookout was down a trail about 100 yards through the trees and out of view from the lookout. Like the others in your pictures, it's just a throne. But the view from the seat was amazing. You could see hundreds of square miles of forest and mountains. This is by far the best one I've been to.

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