Dick Andrews is a retired engineer and journalist active with the Green Mountain Club, which maintains the Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail in Vermont. Dick developed the concept of the moldering privy in the 1990s and oversaw the installation of a successful prototype at Little Rock Pond Shelter in 1997. Dick also edited the first edition of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Backcountry Sanitation Manual and continues to be involved with the Green Mountain Club.