The comfy loo seat. +There are bolt holes drilled into the rocks to secure the frame. + +
The necessaries are kept in a daren drum +with a string handle at the entrance to the bivvy. If it's +not there, then it's in use. The daren drum contains: +
Every couple of years the seat gets cracked or broken and has to be replaced. We buy +a new one in the lagerstore in Altaussee. +
The beams of wood and the carefully-measured lengths of studding and nuts required to make it level are all +kept in our usual winter store. Two standard 13mm spanners are required to assemble it. +
Photo © Philip Sargent, 2017
+ +Read this. It is important.
+
You may think that you know how to wipe your own arse, and that you do not therefore need any advice on how to move your bowels on the Loser Plateau. @@ -41,16 +42,23 @@ rife.
DO think about where your offerings may be washed during a rain-storm – into Steinbrückenhöhle perhaps?
Postscript: Over the last few years a certain grike close to the -stone bridge has become canonical. Hence the importance of good aim is -redoubled.
-Also, it should be pointed out that if you choose to use bog roll (as most of us do, although more enterprising expo members have experimented with moss, bunde, and limestone), you should set light to each sheet before you drop it down the grike; there is a cigarette lighter kept with the bog rolls. DON'T drop the lighter down the grike.
+ +Over the last few years a certain grike in thick bushes +close to the stone bridge has become canonical. Hence the importance of good aim is +redoubled. This now has a loo seat as pictured.
+ +Postscript: We have a not-too-serious set of diagrams +on how to achieve correct aim. + + + +