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    Toilet tissue littering Camino Portugués

    No. The “cat-hole” method draws curious animal who dig it up, throw it around, put themselves at risk for zoonotic illness, and risk more encounters with humans and vehicles etc. Leave it in the open and they will stay way. Pack out tissue with you. Avoid making a “large deposit” too near to...
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    Toilet tissue littering Camino Portugués

    I’ve never seen trash thrown into a vacant lot *so long as* the ayumiento had not stopped supplying waste removal services to an area. I don’t think that the Spanish residents care any less about their surroundings than anyone else. I do think that when you are quite elderly and there’s no...
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    Toilet tissue littering Camino Portugués

    This question has been answered many times not he forum… but the upshot is that municipalities cannot afford it, that there isn’t one large camino overseer… and there isn’t a sufficient population in each ayumiento (often part of “España desnuda”) to support luxuries for those who go fairly...
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    Toilet tissue littering Camino Portugués

    I agree with all your points. I just don’t think that the proliferation of debris is because all the women are lying about not leaving TP on the ground. The math on something that won’t biodegrade any time soon is that it doesn’t take long to “pile up” so to speak. AND I don’t think that...
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    Toilet tissue littering Camino Portugués

    There are some 350-400,000 people who receive the compostelas each year. We know that many walk without acquiring the certificate at the end, but it's a good benchmark for a sense of how many are out there. @Kathar1na probably has the most recent percentage by gender, but I recall it was about...
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    Toilet tissue littering Camino Portugués

    I have seen many signs along the way using universally understood graphic images that amount to "please do not crap on my stuff" notices. Perhaps these signs (that I saw first near León in 2014) need to be posted earlier on; perhaps the major departure points, or even the pilgrim...
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    Toilet tissue littering Camino Portugués

    At a guess? Whenever a phenomenon concentrates and proliferates in one setting (the caminos being 'one kind of thing')... there has to be a common driving feature. So what distinguishes caminos from the other walking holiday routes, or hiking routes? It is "safe" for inexperienced people to...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    I'm so glad that in real life the people I walk with and become friends with on each camino (who are usually far older than I, and *usually* less "liberal") are disinclined to worry more about perceived "tone" than they are about the facts of appalling, obnoxious and harmful *behaviour* that...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    I'm afraid you have not understood the difference between *all people* and a *specific set of examples* in the original post. What I said was that everyone brings unconscious stuff with them, and that is the way of human beings, but that it would be nice if we all aimed to leave overt...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    ...half my age, and by the following morning he felt the need to tell everyone he was going to punch me out... because why???? We let him have *his camino* and moved the hell out of his way. The behaviour was not merely offensive; it was threatening and dangerous. But it is a stop too far for...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    It depends... and I've seen it overtake a group from the one rare person who kept popping off at the innocent. The request is nothing more than "while you are training your body, remember to think about whether you really need to moan that one's freeeeedom is being policed because we have...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    Um... wow. I have very very explicitly addressed the issue of those men who could not leave their hostility at home. If it doesn't apply to you, then there's no problem. And I'm not a comic, for which I make no apology.
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    ...I am going to put forward that it's time for the social dinosaurs to rethink or go extinct. As the one that the ex-military guy was going to *punch* because after he had finished with his paranoid hallucinations about the young Israeli couple, he moved on to *me*... it's not up to me to...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    Absolutely!
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    Rest step - has anyone used this technique on steep uphill sections?

    Tried this on the week-end with some very steep local paths. WONDERFUL!!! My heart rate was completely in my control... I could push it if I wanted to for the workout, but I could also use this technique, never go over 122 bpm on a hill that usually takes me to 146-ish, and then, at the top...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    ...to someone who is gender non-conforming, and as a "cute" woman who get snarked at for not having a feminine voice, snark about pronouns is actually *frightening*. Is that person going to shove me off a path? Or my kid should I choose to take *THEM*? We were genuinely afraid as a group of...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    Do not bring hatred or hostility in your kit. Any of us will carry an unknown bias (that's how it works)... but phobias and hostilities about sex/gender... don't bring that with you. Don't bring sexism, misogyny, ageism, racism, ethnocentrism etc. on the camino. Remember that for any given...
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    What would you tell a new pilgrim NOT to do ?

    Except for this; great list. Compeed *is not* made for blister prevention. Compeed is a re-purposed colloid dressing (same as used for stoma 'wounds' (that is: open holes generally for drainage out of the body). The colloid protects against abrasion, prevents the wound from growing larger...
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    What would you tell a new pilgrim NOT to do ?

    Do not complain that the camino is too Catholic, that the churches are "gaudy and tacky", etc. Do not complain that it is not a nature hike (it is not and never has been). Do not avoid the "ugly" parts of the cityscapes (those ugly parts are the infrastructure that makes y/our bliss...
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    Where have you felt a deep sense of community on the Camino?

    You are right! I stayed there in May, and it was exceptional.

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