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Staying clean on the trail

A few tricks to stay clean on that long backpack trip . . .

  1. If you use a pop bottle for a water bottle (and you might want to - they are light, free and strong), carry a spare cap with holes drilled in it.  Fill the bottle with warm water for a great hot trail shower!
  2. On short trips, carry travel packets of baby wipes. They smell like babies but that’s better than the alternative, and it only takes two or three to do a whole bath.
  3. You can also carry one of the rough textured “bath scrubbie gloves” - they weigh nothing and do a great job of cleaning off trail grime.