Va. There on a badly eroded dirt road, which was also the AT, I kept twisting my ankles and feet as I negotiated over the fist-sized rocks born of years of erosion. Oliver Twist is one of my favorite books and my middle name is Oliver. Don is a physician and is therefore interested in knowing about a lot of things, as that is generally doctors wont. He had received a new book for Christmas on Scatology. Scat or animal poop can generally be identified as that of a particular animal by certain characteristics as explained in the book.
Some folks can identify the type of scat from years of observation.
Others rely on books or a combination thereof. Still others neither care nor bother with scat identification. Don had been pointing out all the various little piles of poop found as the group walked along the trail. I suppose we could have been called the 'Poop Group'. Lagging behind slightly, Patty called John back to look at a sample that Don and he had obviously overlooked in their bent to get on with the trail maintenance.