07-02-2015, 04:19 PM
In a wetter environment waste would decompose and you would never know it was there although if everyone pooped in the same place that spot would get pretty rank for a while. However the summit is a desert. Throughout the deserts of the world researchers are able to determine what people ate hundreds of years ago because of little piles of dehydrated poop that never decomposed. Also, I remember a few years ago when some contractors working near a heiau relieved themselves nearby. The crap really hit the fan then. So if the entire mountain is sacred....