[pct-l] Fw: Reaction to Hikers - smell.

[Mike Cunningham]

A fairly simple solution to the shower problem is to poke  a few holes into a bottle cap. Since you have already preplanned this is an extra cap which fits your water bottle. 
 
Fill the bottle with water, wet yourself down, soap up & rinse off. Of course you do this well away from straems & such. LNT etc. A one liter bottle works but 2 l is better.
 
Even a spastic gram weenie like me can carry an extra bottle cap. YMMV
 
hm

--- On Mon, 7/4/11, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Fw: Reaction to Hikers - smell.
To: "'Edward Anderson'" <mendoridered at yahoo.com>, "'Stephen Clark'" <rowriver at gmail.com>, pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 1:52 AM


MendoRider wrote:
>
To me, it's not worth changing but I'm surprised that the hikers don't bring
them.
>

The reason, of course, is that most of us don't have a horse to lug around
all of our junk for us.  :-)

When packing for a two-legged thru-hike, the question for each piece of gear
must always be, "Will carrying this thing increase or decrease my odds of
making it to the border?"  There may be a few people out there for whom the
inability to take a shower on the trail would be so demoralizing that
carrying a shower bag actually increases their changes of completing their
thru-hike, but I think that's pretty rare.  Five and a quarter ounces
multiplied by 2,650 miles is a lot of work.  When compared to the downside
of being smelly (not much in a practical sense) and considering that the
problem is easily fixed in other ways (a sponge bath or a swim), it's not at
all surprising to me that thru-hikers don't carry shower bags with them.  

Eric

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