[pct-l] just think. just water.

[Shelly Leavens]

funny and very creative. kudos. the aforementioned hiker fire tongue
preferred the "pour it down the small of your back" method. I liked this
method too, but only in times of water abundance.  Bidet your own bidet, you
know?
gd

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:59 PM, At Rerunner <atrerunner at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, practically speaking, a very flexible/squeezable water bottle with
> closeable/squirt type cap, probably of a smaller size than a 'regular'
> water-bottle, or....a mouthful of forcefully expelled water and a long
> flexible tube, kind of like a reverse wet-rib/camelback?
>
> fenu
>
>
> On 1/25/09, jeff.singewald at comcast.net <jeff.singewald at comcast.net> wrote:
> > For the past couple of years I have expressed my negative views on all
> the
> > water caches in SoCal, but I now may need to rethink the benefits of the
> > water caches with this idea of a backcountry bidet.
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> > From: Shelly Leavens <shellyleaves at gmail.com>
> >
> >> on the topic of TP.
> >> I used it for the first week and then, my wonderful friend fire tounge
> >> introduced me to the *backcountry bidet*. Besides the lovely concept of
> >> not
> >> using ANY paper other than my journal on the trail, being toilet-paper
> >> free
> >> is especially important in the over-populated and arid desert, where not
> >> only are you more likely to come across established sites, but the TP is
> >> not
> >> going to decompose for a long time. Guarantee some little animal is
> going
> >> to
> >> dig it up and then..we get to look at it! All you have to do is plan for
> a
> >>
> >> little more water and splish splash. The most important key is to
> sanitize
> >>
> >> like you've never sanitized. just go crazy. Its liberating on more than
> >> one
> >> level and I recommend that even if you are instantly repulsed, just
> think
> >> of
> >> all the benefits, try it, and you will be converted. i swear.
> >> love, gd
> >>
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> >> garden. Goethe
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in spite of distances or thoughts expressed, can make of this earth a
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