How does PrepHole do their hygiene for long outings. How much prep should you do for hygiene like shaving, washing, and keeping clean underwear, boots, etc?
Field Hygiene
How does PrepHole do their hygiene for long outings. How much prep should you do for hygiene like shaving, washing, and keeping clean underwear, boots, etc?
Dr. Bronner's in a smallish vial for most all cleaning. 6L Sea2Summit water bag with "shower" head to wash hands before each base camp meal, breakfast and dinner.
Quick whole body wash beginning and end of each day with Bronner's and water. No towel.
Never shave.
Pack one set of day clothes and another set for sleeping. Two extra pairs socks and liners; no extra anything else, hat, globes, buff etc. Doesn't matter whether two days out or four months out. (I soloed a huge chunk of Africa.) Just one set of day clothes and night clothes.
Ex Officio briefs, capilene t-shirts - Patagonia, and microfleece sleeping pad cover (because I only use quilts) all hand wash and dry quickly.
I bushwhack mostly and so I don't care how I smell or look. It's quite common for me to go a week before even changing my socks or underwear.
I carry a limited number of wilderness wipes in case I shit myself or am in serious need of cleaning.
Don't bathe in bodies of water. Too easy to contaminate downstream plus pick up lepto, schisto, amoeba, tapeworms (moose), fleas, and other critters like cysts and leeches.
All my outer gear and socks are soaked in Permethrin before I go out. Nothing that touches my face, other than a hat or cap, gets the Permethrin treatment.
Always carry a Sunnto MC-2 global needle compass, tweezers and a tick card. The compass mirror allows me to see whether I've picked up ticks or leeches or else have acquired an infection.
My usual time out is 7-10 days, so hygiene is seldom a risk factor other than standing downwind of me butt that's your problem.
Just GTFO there. Go.
The Dr Bronner's is a good choice, but otherwise you're very obviously a filthy neanderthal who doesn't understand the irony of refusing to stay clean while avoiding water for fear of tapeworms
>Don't bathe in bodies of water. Too easy to contaminate downstream plus pick up lepto, schisto, amoeba, tapeworms (moose), fleas, and other critters like cysts and leeches.
So you don’t swim in creeks?
Seldom. If it's hot, I take a quick "shower" under my 6L water blivet. Only if it's super hot do I consider a jump in a natural body of water. Have entered quicksand, rip currents, leech infested water, lava rock bottoms that lacerated my feet and like dicey conditions.
I'm off trail usually and solo. No help coming, juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Although in cooler weather I am a sucker for hot springs if no one else is there. If people arrive I leave without saying a word. I dislike people generally.
>guys all swinging from a rope into a creek
>girls giggling and fricking around on the beach
>everyone floating down a lazy stream on an inner tube
>umm, acktchually you might catch a parasite!
If you lived anywhere fun you would have been bullied into homosexuality.
I'm age 50, fit and secure. Did the truck innertubes lashed together with beer/sandwiches cooler thing and girls.
Today I yack at the prospect. 90%of.the U.S. pop is beyond vacuously imbecilic.
No gay. Don't care.
>I'm age 50, fit and secure
You can't be bullied into something if you're already there
What's with that spacing? Are your moronic?
For 3 days I don't pack shit. More than that maybe a soap bar, just wash my hands/face/nuts in a creek.
This homie is thorough I could never imagine giving this much of a shit.
>Don't swim in bodies of water
b***h what???!
i bring a towel and some shampoo, if i have plenty of water available (camping near a river) i improvise a shower with a bucket or something, if not i give myself towel baths in which i soak half of the towel with water and some soap and use the other part to dry myself, use the towel to scrub my body, starting with face, then arms, armpits, legs, finally give my ass a good wipe, then i clean the towel and hang it for drying somewhere.
literal troglodyte mentality
you don't have to be squeaky clean but even medieval peasants understood the need to not be filthy.
a clean body is a healthy body is a functional body. but I guess that's not a huge concern when you're only larping for 10 days at a time.
Clothes: I just pick quick drying, low smell stuff. Especially in warmer weather I take the opportunity to rinse stuff out and dry it on the outside of my pack. In winter I just keep it dry, often with either boiling water in a nalagene or my body heat in the sleeping bag. Permethrin on all of my clothes and shelter at least once a season. I usually have one set of things to wear awake, another for sleeping, plus the stuff like insulation and rain layers, it's just kind of a given that they will be a little icky after a long trip. Exception is socks, I typically have 2 sets of socks and 2 sets of liners and will rotate them daily, plus separate socks to sleep in in cool weather.
Cooking I keep it simple. I don't typically cook directly on the heat to avoid baking food onto things which leaves residue and potential for bacteria or mold growth . I like to just reheat stuff with boiling water in a bowl bag or tupperware with a coozie. The plastic wipes clean easily. I bring a piece of natural scrubby sponge to keep it clean and then I rinse the bowl with hot water. I do bring campsuds if it has been a couple days or if the meal was a little oily. Boiling water sanitizes the cup and spoon.
Self I rarely worry about hair or shaving. I do bring some stuff for things like bike touring where I have the opportunity to swing by a state park with showers. I always have a comb or heavy brush for hair and beard though. I keep hand sanitizer in both my cooking and shit kits, as well as a pocket bidet. I bring a little microfiber camp towel so I can rinse myself off with a little water. To me the most important is oral hygiene so always a toothbrush, paste, and floss. I'll not shower for 2 weeks, but I will brush twice a day every day.
First aid kit is probably on the overprepared side, but I make a specific effort to deal with little things before they become big things especially on long trips. Antiseptics, wound coverings, etc.
I don't. Disposable wet wipes to wipe my ass twice or thrice. Maybe some paper towels under my balls if I'm going to be sweating. Outside of that, nothing. Keep shoes and socks near any fire to clean them.
You don't need anything.
Wool
Can anyone recommend any good nail clippers? There's so much ultralight autism these days someone must make a good, minimal pair. Was gonna throw clippers and one of those 10 gram chicago combs in with my med and hygiene stuff and call it a day.
They're fricking nail clippers bro try not to overthink it
I dunno go buy some tweezermans
Why would you need nail clippers unless you're going out for more than a month? Even then, you could just get by with s knife or your teeth
You say that but last time I was in Europe my clippers broke and all the stores around only had the scissor kind. These days if it is something I need I'll go to the trouble to get a decent, durable kind.
+1 to tweezermans, they always work great on my teeth