This past summer, hikers on Colorado’s highest peak, 14,438-foot Mount Elbert, were met by a peculiar welcome committee. Volunteers from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative handed out WAG bags near a ...

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When his first daughter was in diapers, Jake Thomas began thinking about the problem of poop, never imagining it would become his life’s work. But it has.

If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big ...

When his first daughter was in diapers, Jake Thomas began thinking about the problem of poop, never imagining it would become his life’s work. But it has. Thomas and his brother-in-law, Noah Schum, ...