Impressive. I pooped on the top of Aspen Mountain last week, in the Sundeck restaurant facility. Soft lighting, yes, ambient music being able to hear music playing in the restaurant. Being that it's on the top of an ~11,000 foot mountain, though, the crapper while a conventional flushing style had a vague odor hinting of a mountain outhouse-style toilet, like one of those where you do your thing into a hole in the ground.
Speaking of hole in the ground mountain toilets, I think from now on I'm preemptively plugging my nose with tissue or something before opening the door to those things because I nearly doubled over barfing coming out of the one at the Maroon Bells parking lot last week. Some scumbag left the lid up, filling the room with a blast of piss so strong I nearly screamed in horror going inside. I hurriedly did my business, went out gagging and spitting and nearly puked on the driveway to the parking lot. One of the hole-toilets on the top of Independence Pass doesn't have a lock on the door so it's a pray-and-spray. Worst one I ever encountered was at the North Fork Trail parking lot across from the old South Platte Hotel in Jefferson County, Colorado. It must have been stoners; I really don't know, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out why multiple people would pee in every corner of the bathroom instead of inside of the toilet itself. There were even a few dried turds there, too. Maybe they were so stoned, they were afraid of falling into the hole and/or felt the need to lean their backs against the corner of the bathroom for balance?
It's always good, when driving in the Rockies, to bring some TP just in case. I had to use some of my own last year in the outhouse thing at the Ashcroft ghost town site because their TP dispenser was empty, curse their souls. And a lot of these places don't have phone service if you get trapped on the crapper. Ashcroft, Maroon Bells, and Independence Pass are not in cellular network range. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. PREPARE OR ELSE.
