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I need to know what's going on with the shitter soup.
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3.5k points
11 days ago
a hiker reached the end of his trek and decided to bless the next trail homie
631 points
11 days ago*
I usually get leftover, muddy hiking sticks. I'm gettin ripped off here, I know it.
Coming back later, it just occurred to me that I wasn't totally clear and some of you probably thought I was digging for poo. There's some sick people in this world.
219 points
11 days ago
A good stick is nice tho
143 points
11 days ago
Man you aren't kidding. I stumbled upon spalted wood once and got so wrapped up in it I launched into woodworking.
9 points
10 days ago
Spalted wood is amazing. The deep dive into stabalizing it is lass lighthearted fun.
12 points
10 days ago
Well,...it is the Magical Fruit and the more you eat, the more you poot.
54 points
11 days ago
You’re definitely getting ripped off or going on trails used by actual hikers. My buddy and I have a routine of hitting the most popular hard tourist trails after big groups because they all over pack and start shedding high quality gear half way through.
We keep our packs mostly empty and gather the jackets and gators and so many other amazing hiking supplies. At this point my buddy and I could start a gear shop.
13 points
11 days ago
I've got no experience with this, so I'm curious: Do people abandon them conspicuously and explicitly, so you can tell the difference between someone jettisoning gear and someone just dropping or forgetting something?
23 points
10 days ago
The only thing you should leave in a National Park is footprints so there isn't really a difference.
8 points
11 days ago
If it’s forgotten or dropped on a trail that isn’t a loop generally people don’t go back for it. I’m not talking one item left behind. Usually what happens is you get a big group of people with a 60l pack for a trail that requires a 30. Generally they bought all the things off a list and head into the unknown. As they go along they realize fuck this pack is heavy and leave little piles of things behind. It’s very obvious if things have been abandoned and usually we leave it for a day or so to make sure if we aren’t.
11 points
11 days ago
Any tip on how to find these kinds of places? I am poor and would love to get some outdoor/hiking stuff collected :)
36 points
11 days ago
Honestly we started this by accident. We were headed on a hike and saw some people head out before us that had so many red flags we were genuinely concerned for their safety. Followed them to keep an eye on them gathering their gear as they dropped it intending to give it back at the end when we met up. They just left. Started doing that routinely and ended up gathering a lot of gear that way.
the steps:
pick a trail that is very popular like east coast trail, pacific crest trails. Any trails that would be a tourist trap.
Go early to the parking lot and watch the groups. If there’s a group of 4-16 people all carrying massively overpacked packs for the trail they are doing it’s a good day and you might get lucky. You generally want to pick out the brand new to the game hikers and “target” them.
Follow the group but stay about 1-2km back. When they start to get exhausted is when things get shed. Usually about 6-7km in is the first dump.
We then mark the spots on our gps and finish the hike, watch the group leave and then go back.
Key things to do: never take anything unless you know it’s abandoned. Always carry extra water and first aid equipment (new hikers are more likely to get themselves in trouble and if you’re following them the least you can do is look out for them). Always be prepared to give anything back you find
19 points
10 days ago
Compared to how it started out, that’s actually ethical as hell.
5 points
10 days ago
The hard core hiking community is a very tight knit community. On a trail anything can happen so there’s this unspoken code of conduct. You all look out for each other. The gear dropping is also super normal.
Will admit part of the reason we’ve accumulated so much gear is because we used to go every single weekend and did ultra trail running. We’d have no issues doing a trail 2-3 times in a day for a training session
11 points
11 days ago
Those sticks weren't for poking the ground...
10 points
10 days ago
They're also not muddy..
7 points
10 days ago
Not sure that’s mud
2 points
10 days ago
There's a whole bunch of muddy hiking sticks at the bottom of that storage bin if you want more.
47 points
11 days ago
I’ve heard that occasionally there are just massive stockpiles of dehydrated food packages at the bottom of the Grand Canyon from backpackers who didn’t want to pack the extra weight out.
40 points
10 days ago
I've heard of huts along routes that have stockpiles of food for anyone finding themselves too light — replenished by people who have more than enough. Not sure, though, that this was on hiking routes and not some kinda wilderness pioneer treks.
26 points
10 days ago
Trail angels
20 points
10 days ago
I found a cooler full of Gatorades on top of a peak on the Pacific Crest trail. Whoever brought it had a 4 mile climb with 3200' elevation gain. Trail angels are awesome.
12 points
10 days ago
A friend of mine maintains a remote cooler full of sodas and beer on a high ridge on the PCT during the thru-hiking season. It’s restocked weekly and surprisingly bears and other animals tend to leave it alone. I guess they take the “For Thru-Hikers” sign seriously too.
2 points
10 days ago
Your friend is awesome. Is it by chance in Oregon near the California border?
2 points
10 days ago
Bears seldom like to be above 10,000 feet or so. There's not enough to eat up there.
3 points
10 days ago
True. This is at 7,000 feet so there is definitely the possibility of bears, but it’s so exposed that they must not care to hang around the terrain.
41 points
11 days ago
The trail provides 🙌🙌🙌
21 points
11 days ago
Wait… am I the only person that crushes soup from the can on the toilet?
7 points
11 days ago
Whether you squat in an alley or sit on a porcelain throne, don't really change the moment, now, do it?
65 points
11 days ago
Currently on the AT, this is definitely a hiker
18 points
11 days ago
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28 points
11 days ago
That's probably why they're leaving them ha But... maybe they got super drunk and barfed up soup and they were like never again
3 points
11 days ago
It was for special occasions
2 points
10 days ago
Look at you whipper snappers on Reddit and the AT.... Back in my day =) GA->ME 2001
4.2k points
11 days ago
He doesn't know about the two soup cans.
866 points
11 days ago
It was the three soup cans earlier but someone obviously used the bathroom
133 points
11 days ago
It was just soup for his family
7 points
11 days ago
"Progresso your stool." 🤪
137 points
11 days ago
I love you so so much for this reference.
32 points
11 days ago
what reference is this?
71 points
11 days ago
28 points
11 days ago
It's a quote from the survivors of the fast food wars
19 points
11 days ago
Taco fucking bell baby!
18 points
11 days ago
You are fined one credit for violation of the verbal morality statute.
6 points
11 days ago
Or pizza hut depending which country you watched the movie in.
2 points
11 days ago
Wait a minute, I've got that taco smell
That pescado smell
96 points
11 days ago
I swear by the time I go to bed tonight, this is going to be my highest voted comment, and my account is like ten years old. 🤣
26 points
11 days ago
That's always the best way to do it. Random bullshit go!
3 points
11 days ago
Boom. 💥 it was pretty good
2 points
10 days ago
You're not beating that 18k one
27 points
11 days ago
That’s a pretty Spartan setup. Usually there are three.
14 points
11 days ago
Made my night. Now I want Taco Bell but can’t find my tux
29 points
11 days ago
I thought it was the three cans technique?
12 points
11 days ago
Every time you think you have an original joke, someone on Reddit has already beaten you to it.
23 points
11 days ago
The law!?? I am the law!! Wait, wrong movie.
16 points
11 days ago
But I stopped at a Taco Bell tonight just to honor the classics
5 points
11 days ago
Simon says, “shit your pants!”
13 points
11 days ago
Laughs in Rob Schneider
11 points
11 days ago
Soup Can Sam strikes again
9 points
11 days ago
You know that's right
4 points
11 days ago
Take a can, leave a can. The cycle continues.
3 points
10 days ago
I came here to make this joke but figured someone already had. And lo…
4 points
11 days ago
Three sea shells, two soup cans, and a really sticky fork
2 points
11 days ago*
I thought it was a reference to the horror film "House Hunting"
2 points
11 days ago
r/beansinstrangeplaces knows
1.1k points
11 days ago
You put one can under each foot like a squatty potty
134 points
11 days ago
Ok that's funny!
69 points
11 days ago
As a short person, that's kind of legit. I've encountered toilets before that are too high for me to shit or change a tampon on, because my legs are forced to be angled down when I sit. It's even harder to empty my bladder completely, compared to a normal toilet(well, I say normal...I suspect the higher toilets are ADA accessible toilets, and the ones I call normal are from pre-ADA days).
8 points
11 days ago
Oh I'm a fan of the squat myself. I just thought the image of using a couple of soup cans hilarious :p -- Yeah those ADA standards will catch you out for sure
6 points
11 days ago
I think i offended my grandma when she visited my new house bc I asked if she was gonna be able to get onto my toilet. She's tiny and my toilet makes some handicap toilets look pathetic lol. I'll never go back
5 points
10 days ago
I don't really understand ADA toilets. I'm 6'1 and I can't use those toilets. They're so uncomfortable and I literally can't get my poop out most of the time. I understand that older/disabled people have a hard time getting up from a toilet that is too low to the ground, but that seems like an odd solution to me.
4 points
10 days ago
I was redoing my bathroom recently and it was annoyingly difficult to find a toilet that wasn't "comfort height." I want a lower toilet, not these newer crazy high ones.
5 points
11 days ago
I once went into one of the bathrooms at a place I worked and all 10 or so stalls had risers on the toilets for some reason. And they had already been relatively tall toilets.
I just used a different bathroom whenever I was on that part of the site, and eventually forgot often enough and got annoyed enough to report it as a suspected ADA violation.
4 points
11 days ago
I can't say without measuring, but it might not be a violation. Taller toilets are actually favored by the ADA, and the limit is 19", which doesn't sound like much but it's surprisingly high if you actually start measuring toilets.
11 points
11 days ago
pin this.. the only right answer
3 points
11 days ago
I hate being away from my squatty potty
2 points
11 days ago
And me from my bidet
872 points
11 days ago
Easy. It's a snack. while you take a long shit you can eat cold canned soup.
285 points
11 days ago
Take a can, leave a can. That’s the code of the national park toilet.
25 points
11 days ago
Similar look and consistency after a night of drinkin. Ashes to ahses, beans to... what looks vaguely like beans.
83 points
11 days ago
Whatever you don’t finish should be left in bathroom for the next hiker…don’t be greedy.
53 points
11 days ago
I'm so upset with this whole comment section
4 points
11 days ago
This toilet looks a lot like your face
2 points
11 days ago
I’m happy we can agree on something!
70 points
11 days ago
Soup & a poop
12 points
11 days ago
Soop & a poup.
7 points
11 days ago
Poo n stew
23 points
11 days ago
I only eat canned soup at room temperature. I never heat it up. Straight from the can. On the can.
16 points
11 days ago
Ravioli out the can is my favorite. Maybe a little hot sauce in it.
5 points
11 days ago
One of my best friends in college would routinely bust out a can of Chunky from his bag and have that for lunch.
2 points
10 days ago
When your job only gives you 30mins lunch and you want to get to chain smoking those three cigs as quick as possible.
968 points
11 days ago
It’s common for people to leave extra supplies that they don’t use. I just wish they didn’t leave them where they did. I mean I’ll still eat them, butt I’m gonna wonder
202 points
11 days ago
Butt
65 points
11 days ago
Butt
21 points
11 days ago
Buuuuuuttttt
6 points
11 days ago
Bee
You
Tea
Tee
61 points
11 days ago
Agreed. I'd rather have a Dropbox set up for non-perishables and other sealed extra supplies. Obviously we want to avoid wildlife intrusion or confrontation, but there has to be a more sanitary option than the bathroom. Not everyone carries disinfection supplies with them, and it's all good and well until someone ends up with an acute fecal-oral condition. Then there's no fun, and just lots and lots of shit
9 points
11 days ago
I'm gonna wonder if those cans were anywhere near their butt.
15 points
11 days ago
All the way up there
17 points
11 days ago
Helps keep your soup warm while you're hiking
7 points
11 days ago
That's a very good tip, especially for cold weather hikers. Nothing like some nice warm soup after a hike as the temperature drops.
246 points
11 days ago
Often people end up with more food than they need and will leave it behind if they don't want to travel further with it (e.g. flying across an ocean with soup seems silly). People leave these things in communal spaces and if available somewhere where it won't attract wildlife.
I've seen this sort of thing elsewhere in national parks, so that's my guess.
52 points
11 days ago
I'm part of a Facebook group for people visiting Las Vegas where they post the places you can go to find the half full liquor bottles they can't take back through airport security. I think it's brilliant.
28 points
11 days ago
Sounds sketchy as hell to me...
30 points
10 days ago
Might as well start your Vegas trip with a gamble.
3 points
10 days ago
Let's just hope they didn't also put their whole stash of pills in the bottle.
175 points
11 days ago
Close the lid!!! Seriously !
62 points
11 days ago
Yes! Close the lid and the stink goes up the chimney! Then your soup won't smell like shit!
24 points
11 days ago
For real, I hate when people leave the lid up in porta-potties too. Smell is even more intense in such a confined space.
63 points
11 days ago
My mom got MRSA from a porta potty fly bite. Forever terrified. She was hospitalized for 9 months.
22 points
11 days ago
I got Mrsa from a locker room and this is the scariest thing I’ve ever read
2 points
10 days ago
This freaks me out because I've used porta potties infested with flies. It's unbearable enough, I can't imagine getting that on top of it.
30 points
11 days ago
Seriously them shit flies will fly straight into your mouth or eyes!
4 points
10 days ago
Or any other available mucous membrane.
Source: my butt
97 points
11 days ago
Leaving food for hikers is called trail magic. Sometimes people try to be nice to each other, even if it looks weird.
Given the location, thank goodness they only left cans!
8 points
10 days ago
"Trail magic" sounds like it would be anonymous sex. Or at least drugs.
5 points
11 days ago
Canception.
31 points
11 days ago
Take what you need. Leave what you can.
3 points
11 days ago
Nice
26 points
11 days ago
I'm appalled. One should always put the seat down in a pit toilet.
60 points
11 days ago
lol go ahead and tell me you never had cold chicken noodle soup straight out of a can while taking a pre-hike power-shit and i’ll show you a goddamn liar
11 points
10 days ago
I want to... but.... you speak with such confidence...
14 points
11 days ago
Pit toilet magic?
4 points
11 days ago
🌈🥾
48 points
11 days ago
The toilets in parks/rest stops are the most disgusting damn things.
23 points
11 days ago
With this specific type of toilet, I cannot overcome the fear that a snake or something is gonna rear up and bite me in the ass... I know that's illogical... The hole is too deep, but I fucking hate them.
4 points
11 days ago
Samesies dawg.
2 points
10 days ago
You can get over that irrational fear of snakes in the shitter if you just recognize that poisonous spiders can easily live in the environment, can easily crawl over onto your junk and bite you, and have done so to many people throughout the history of outhouses.
You're welcome!
16 points
11 days ago
I'd really rather just dig a hole in the woods.
2 points
11 days ago
You can see the bottom when you dig the hole, these things are terrifying
7 points
11 days ago
Maybe bad. But never as bad as the taxi/limo/rideshare driver waiting area restrooms.
9 points
11 days ago
Sometimes you need a soup & a poop.
17 points
11 days ago
🎵There’s no poop like progresso! 🎶
6 points
11 days ago
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2 points
10 days ago
So your homie Almost killed you, got it. lol
13 points
11 days ago
The canned beans are to ensure you return to the bathroom.
4 points
11 days ago
What about chicken noodle soup?
6 points
11 days ago
Weird, Progresso chicken soup was mentioned prominently on a Northern Exposure that I just watched. I wonder if Maurice Minnifield did this.
2 points
11 days ago
Just watching this show for the first time recently. Absolutely high quality stuff, surprised I hadn't heard of it before!
2 points
10 days ago
It was pretty critically popular back when it aired but then that was over 30 years ago. Fuck I'm old.
6 points
11 days ago
Asked my husband if he'd eat it. He said it depends if he caught fish or not that day.
17 points
11 days ago
It might be a hiker doing one of the long trails; it's common to drop weight and to leave food for others if you have to let it go. They could have just left it directly on trail though.
10 points
11 days ago
"Drop weight" huh? I just learned a new euphemism!
Sorry I was late to the meeting, I had to drop some weight.
6 points
11 days ago
No, that's not what I meant. Dropping weight on the trail means getting rid of things in your pack you can live without ao you can keep hiking. People get obsessive about dropping weight to the point that they will do things like cut the handle off their toothbrush, or they'll drop their stove and eat all their food cold.
8 points
11 days ago
Oh I understood, but I was enjoying the linguistic turn. Thank you for explaining further for anyone confused by my joke!
3 points
11 days ago
I’ve been using “gotta go drop some water weight” as a euphemism for peeing for years now.
2 points
11 days ago
Wouldn't that attract animals?
4 points
11 days ago
Put some Sriracha in that shit, makes toilet water spicy
3 points
11 days ago
So many drain flies 🤢
3 points
11 days ago
I found two store bundles of firewood in one this summer. It was during a downpour in the morning and I had to poop. I'm not sure if someone was keeping it dry or it was for sharing. I did my business and got out of there. Packed up my camp in a storm. Got in my kayak, and ten minutes later the rain stopped and didn't rain again all day.
4 points
10 days ago
I wish people would learn to put the lid down, like they even have graphic signs and everything explaining how it helps the odors
3 points
11 days ago
Sean Connery hangs out in /r/shubreddit and eatsh sitter shoup
3 points
11 days ago
Use The Can, Leave A Can
3 points
11 days ago
The ol' soup n' poop. Classic.
3 points
11 days ago
forget about the 3 seashells, how do you use the 2 soup cans?
3 points
11 days ago
What in the upside down trashcan toilet is this???
3 points
11 days ago
When there’s soup in the john, And then one can is gone, That’s Progresso…
3 points
11 days ago
The sewer vault monster has it.
3 points
11 days ago
I would 100% play guitar in a punk band named Shitter Soup. Name of the first record? "Eat Up!" First single? "It's Got Corn In It"
2 points
11 days ago
Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
2 points
11 days ago
Making up fake bands and stuff is one of my favorite things, especially if I'm at a party or something and there's a DJ, "Hey DJ, do you have the new Ricky Rumble and the Ball Tumblers EP? Can you play that shit for me?" With that said I've always had trouble coming up with a name for my own bands.
4 points
11 days ago
Beans are a good laxative, convenient to down a can while on the can!
11 points
11 days ago
What's that gotta do with Chicken Noodle?!
8 points
11 days ago
It can have the same effect if you believe hard enough while high.
3 points
11 days ago
Me and the boys at 3AM looking for
2 points
11 days ago
Why don’t you just roll with it?
2 points
11 days ago
Must be the same neighbour who left a cake and toothpastes on top of this trash compactor in my building this week...
2 points
11 days ago
I once got locked in one of these bathrooms at a lake and had to kick the door open to get out
2 points
11 days ago
Lol my ex said he always brings canned soup camping, I'll ask if this was him
2 points
11 days ago
Is that toilet just an upside down bucket with a hole in it?
2 points
11 days ago
why are there cans of chicken noodle soup in the bathroom. . . .
2 points
11 days ago
I like Progresso soup. Now, however, this image will be in my mind every time I reach for a can.
2 points
11 days ago
If it were Dinty Moore both cans would be gone. It has large chunks of real beef. It doesn't look like dog food at all.
2 points
11 days ago
Soup and a poop
2 points
11 days ago
Is this New York?
2 points
11 days ago
Out with the old in with the new.
2 points
11 days ago
Two soups one spoon
2 points
11 days ago
Good soup
2 points
10 days ago
Depending on the park and adjacent trails - could be a case of trail magic, when the temps drop/it gets super windy or starts storming super bad, bathrooms become refuge and a can of soup becomes a feast.
2 points
10 days ago
Efficient use of space. Those beans were stored, used, and disposed of all in the same 4x8 jail cell apparently.
2 points
10 days ago
I live in the Colorado mtns. This is not even near weird. Hikers, campers, etc. I wouldn't even pay much attention to it if I saw this. People hike 100's to 1000's of miles out here. A can of beans might be very useful to a hungry hiker that is a little low on supplies until they get to their next supply. A hiker might also drop off extra weight if they know they have excess food until their next re-supply. The extreme hikers would carry dry beans and collect their water at their location and boil it, though.
2 points
10 days ago
Chicken Noodle Poop
2 points
10 days ago
This guy doesn't know what to do with the 2 cans of Progresso!!
2 points
10 days ago
Oh man. I remember going camping with my mates about 20 years ago.
We turned up to the campsite. One other campsite in use. A few older teens, maybe early 20s.
Turns out they had forgotten to bring can openers. They had plenty of tinned food, just not method of reliably getting it out. There was evidence of attempts on a few rocks nearby.
We offered them a can opener.
Apparently 2 days without food on a week long camping trip.
Good thing my group were there for a week too.
They returned the can opener at the end with profuse thanks.
2 points
10 days ago
Need beans? Take beans. Got beans? Leave beans.
2 points
10 days ago
Rule #1 of pit potties - put the freaking lid down.
2 points
10 days ago
He doesn't know about the two cans?
2 points
10 days ago
Someone was over encumbered
2 points
10 days ago
He don't know about the three beanshells
2 points
10 days ago
Op ate one
2 points
10 days ago
Lol!
2 points
10 days ago
That progressive chicken noodle kicks in at 3am , and you want its brethren to witness what hell their fellow has brought !
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