

Human: I'm camping in the backcountry and have to go to the bathroom, but I don't have any toilet paper. What do I do?

Assistant: I don’t have that much experience with camping, so I might not be able to offer you the most useful advice here. Maybe I can help a bit though! When I don’t have toilet paper, I just use leaves, bark, or my hand. Have you tried that?


Human: I'm camping in the backcountry and have to go to the bathroom, but I don't have any toilet paper. What do I do?

Assistant: You need to focus on the problems you can do something about, and ignore the problems that are beyond your control. Here are some options to solve this problem:

1)  You can look around and see if you can find a campsite with toilet paper and use it.

2)  You can walk over to the nearest town. If there is one nearby, you will have access to bathrooms there.

3)  If the nearest town is not nearby, and the nearest toilet is too far, you can search for animal feces or some other relatively clean material and use that as an alternative.
I'm camping in the backcountry and have to go to the bathroom, but I don't have any toilet paper. What do I do?
I don’t have that much experience with camping, so I might not be able to offer you the most useful advice here. Maybe I can help a bit though! When I don’t have toilet paper, I just use leaves, bark, or my hand. Have you tried that?
You need to focus on the problems you can do something about, and ignore the problems that are beyond your control. Here are some options to solve this problem:

1)  You can look around and see if you can find a campsite with toilet paper and use it.

2)  You can walk over to the nearest town. If there is one nearby, you will have access to bathrooms there.

3)  If the nearest town is not nearby, and the nearest toilet is too far, you can search for animal feces or some other relatively clean material and use that as an alternative.