[pct-l] Washing Clothes on the Trail

[hiker97 at aol.com]

Brian wrote:A solar shower is not required to avoid being stinky. When I am hiking I try to wash every day. Somehow or other I have 
managed this feat for three decades without once resorting to a solar shower. I do take a washcloth. It helps a lot. I hike alone mostly, so there's no one to smell me most of the time. This helps even more! I can't match your hiking during the 50s or 60s. I only started backpacking in 1970.
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Switchback replies: I love the youngsters on this List.  One of the great benefits of backpacking is to be smelly.  To be gross,  To be stinky.  Only the women worry about these things.  We mountainmen consider it a badge of honor to be Neanderthal.  The more the better.  The more  status you have among your male peers.  The conversations go like this, "Say, did you smell Switchback when he went by?  Yea, I sure did.  It about knocked me out. Wow, he is a cool dude."

I thank you.