{"id":677,"date":"2013-08-14T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T22:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2013-08-14T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T22:53:23","slug":"wag-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/wag-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"WAG Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(So I chose <em>this <\/em>topic first&#8230;?)<\/p>\n<p>The area around Mount Whitney gets so much hiker traffic that it could not withstand the usual human solid waste disposal method of burying 6 inches deep.  There would be trenches everywhere and up in the higher elevations the number of rocks make digging a trench almost impossible.  So the authorities require that you carry and use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mount-whitney.com\/hiking_backpacking_mt_whitney\/mt_whitney_wag_bags.php\" title=\"WAG Bag\">WAG (Waste Alleviation and Gelling) bag<\/a>.  After use, the contents are double bagged and carried with you until you leave the Whitney area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/WAG.jpg\" alt=\"WAG Bag\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the outside packaging of mine before I used it.  Notice that the handy chair shown in the picture doesn&#8217;t come with it.  The actual bag inside is much larger &#8212; about like a kitchen garbage bag.<\/p>\n<p>The bag does have chemicals inside that reduce odor, but it still seemed kind of yucky to be carrying it around.  There are lots of cheaters, I&#8217;m sure, but the park service reports that they collect over 3 tons of human waste every year at the WAG bag disposal stations, so they certainly get used. I guess the cute name helps alleviate some of the yuck factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(So I chose this topic first&#8230;?) The area around Mount Whitney gets so much hiker traffic that it could not withstand the usual human solid waste disposal method of burying 6 inches deep. There would be trenches everywhere and up in the higher elevations the number of rocks make digging a trench almost impossible. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}