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

[Alley Kitten]

There are also products out there that don't require water. No rinse [
http://www.norinse.com/ ] is a common product that seems to work.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Mike Cunningham <hikermiker at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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