[philmont] Innies vs Outies

The "throw-away" ground cloth seems like a bad idea. We teach Leave No
Trace backpacking and we carefully pack out all waste from the
backcountry to minimize our impact. At a time when we should be
teaching Scouts about the environment and sustainable living, buying a
sheet of plastic and throwing it away at the end of every backpacking
trip seems contradictory and just plain wasteful.

Dan Preston

On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:38 PM, John LeBlanc wrote:

> Actually, light plastic works fine for 10 nights in the backcountry. 
> Patriots' Path for years has been recommending contingent crews get
> cheap "party store" table cloths, cut them down to size, use them, and
> pitch them on the return to Base Camp with no reported problems.
>   
> --
> Al Thomson, Troop 236,
> Schooley's Mountain, NJ
> **************************************************************
>  
> And if you get the polupropylene plastic instead of the polyethylene
> plastic, so much the better.  Less tearing, less puncture, less
> slippage and a little tougher per ounce.  The down side is PPL is hard
> to find.
>  
> John LeBlanc
>
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Received on Wed Jun 6 15:04:46 2007