Entertaining Ourselves (Privy Ratings)

Being out on the trail for six months can have a serious effect on the mentality of hikers. Needless to say, we get bored pretty easily. Everyone finds their own way of finding some entertainment to pass the time. Teddy's escape- rating privies. 

 

For those of you that don't know, privies are poop stations (a type of make shift toilet) for hikers to use at shelters. There are different types of privies in terms of how they work. But they all have the same purpose. 

Teddy leaves her reviews of privies in the shelter log book. They look something like this:

 

She uses a plus or minus system and gives an overall rating from a scale of 1-10. 1 being not usable and 10 being the Hilton of privies. Underneath the pluses and minuses she writes a review of the privy, a little something of a description. 

To say the least, it's entertaining for us all. I personally like my privies to be a 5 or higher. Otherwise I'll dig a cat hole. 

There are other ways hikers find joy out here. Musical instruments (of the light weight kind) are popular. But all to often you will find a hiker with a phone in their hand.