Originally Posted By billstephenson
It really depends on where you bury it. I'm sure that anywhere in Missouri standard old toilet paper will degrade pretty fast.


I think you must be right. At the trailhead [Berryman], the NFS had a poster up which instructed hikers to bury TP along with human waste in a 6 inch cathole. I'm glad I don't have to pack it out! (although I didn't have the "opportunity" to use TP in my trip this weekend).