burro poop


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Posted by curt on April 05, 2002 at 11:52:18:

Hi all,

Excuse the scatological nature of this post but it is really a nagging question among our hiking group.
A group of us were hiking back in the Cottonwood, Marble, Lemoigne Canyon areas and we kept running across these amazingly large piles of horse/burro (?) poop. It looked like someone had rounded up a weeks worth of horse poop and left it in one large pile, like 6 feet around and a foot high. We saw this in many areas. Are there horse packers out that way? Do burros always return to the same spot to poop? One hiker even has some money riding on the theory that there were burros huddling all night for warmth leaving such monsterous piles. Any ideas?
Curt


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