Posted: 9/26/2012 9:05:59 PM EDT
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The fiancee and I are going to be doing some hunting in the Central and Northern parts of Florida, we live in the Southern area. Needless to say our trips are going to be 3-7 days long. That's a long time to go without showering especially when trying to keep the scent down.
I'm just curious what yall use for showers and such. I am not sure whether or not the places we are going have those types of facilities but I am almost certain they do not. I saw a Coleman shower at Wal-Mart that holds 5 gallons. I know 5 gallons is not going to last the two of us for 3-7 days so I was thinking of going to a camper supply place and getting one of the big water containers used to refill the water resevoir on RVs to have for extra water. Any suggestions on what to use? EDITED FOR SPELLING BECAUSE MY ENGRISH IS A NO GOOD... |
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Do you have to pack this in? Are you staying at some sort of facility or camp ground where you access to a spigot of some sort?
A couple of really quick suggestions come to mind. The cheap end of the spectrum are solar showers. They are basically black bags you fill with water and let the sun warm the water. Pros cheap and simple. Cons small capacity, relies on gravity (so no powerful massaging jets for you lol) and you either have to warm the water up by stove/fire or wait for water to warm up via the sun. At the higher end of the spectrum they have propane powered heated pressurized showers out there . They are more costly and not packable but they would be the closest thing to a real shower. You can always rig up a spigot and hose system to just about and water reservoir and make a make shift shower. How much do you want to spend, how much do you plan on it using it per day? |
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You can also do what is some times called a hooker bath. A wet disposable wash cloth or 2 to the face, pits, crotch and ass. Best to do it in that order too. Bring enough to wash about every other day. YMMV "Whore bath" in these parts.  Here in Texas too. I'd bring enough to wash every day, and bring some boudreaux'sbutt paste incase you get chaffed, shit works good. |
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Thanks for the suggestions fellas. I am not really looking to spend a ton of money as for two of the three hunts we will have access to a pop-up camper with a shower. Those two hunts are the shorter ones. For the longer hunt I am not sure if we will have access to the camper so we will need a way of showering. After looking online it seems like a good bit of the campgrounds up there have water and possibly electricity. I am not 100% though. I would like a back up plan just in case.
Thanks again for the help so far! |
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Coleman version of one of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stansport-Battery-Powered-Portable-Shower-gb-7cm-camping-camp-5-4-2-m-sac-sony-/180974149773?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a22e6608d
Picked it up for under $20 at target yeras ago, has worked great on many trips. |
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The fiance and I are going to be doing some hunting in the Central and Northern parts of Florida, we live in the Southern area. Needless to say our trips are going to be 3-7 days long. That's a long time to go without showering especially when trying to keep the scent down. I'm just curious what yall use for showers and such. I am not sure whether or not the places we are going have those types of facilities but I am almost certain they do not. I saw a Coleman shower at Wal-Mart that holds 5 gallons. I know 5 gallons is not going to last the two of us for 3-7 days so I was thinking of going to a camper supply place and getting one of the big water containers used to refill the water resevoir on RVs to have for extra water. Any suggestions on what to use? Fiance, huh? You're marrying a dude. U GAY! 
Fiancee is female. Fiance is male. |
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The fiance and I are going to be doing some hunting in the Central and Northern parts of Florida, we live in the Southern area. Needless to say our trips are going to be 3-7 days long. That's a long time to go without showering especially when trying to keep the scent down. I'm just curious what yall use for showers and such. I am not sure whether or not the places we are going have those types of facilities but I am almost certain they do not. I saw a Coleman shower at Wal-Mart that holds 5 gallons. I know 5 gallons is not going to last the two of us for 3-7 days so I was thinking of going to a camper supply place and getting one of the big water containers used to refill the water resevoir on RVs to have for extra water. Any suggestions on what to use? Fiance, huh? You're marrying a dude. U GAY!
Fiancee is female. Fiance is male. Lol my bad. Definitely not gay. That's why I'm majoring in CJ and not English 
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Easiest way is to use a pump sprayer- obviously not one that's been previously used for chemicals. Fill it half way with water then dump some hot water in to get it whatever temp you like, close it up, pump, get yourself wet, soap up then spray yourself off. Quick and easy and doesn't use too much water. With a little practice you can get by on a gallon of water; if you have long hair it'll take more. Many pump sprayers you can take the wand off and attach the nozzle to the handle which makes it easier, otherwise just shorten the wand and reassemble. Plastic sprayers are under $20 at Lowe's, etc. or you can get fancy and get a stainless sprayer and set it on a stove to heat it up.
The Solar Showers work, but the nozzle is usually hard to manipulate, especially with soapy hands. There are also the battery powered showers that you drop the pump or a hose in a bucket or cooler and use. |
| Even better than a garden sprayer is the Zodi shower ––- which can be had with various accessories, but works just fine without them ––- it's a stainless steel canister that holds enough water for two showers, is pressurized with a hand pump, and can be used as solar heated, or tepid H20 can be warmed to comfortable shower temp with a quart or two of H20 heated on a camp stove or campfire. Not as light or compact as a gravity fed "solar" shower, but way better... |
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Thanks for the suggestions fellas. I am not really looking to spend a ton of money as for two of the three hunts we will have access to a pop-up camper with a shower. Those two hunts are the shorter ones. For the longer hunt I am not sure if we will have access to the camper so we will need a way of showering. After looking online it seems like a good bit of the campgrounds up there have water and possibly electricity. I am not 100% though. I would like a back up plan just in case. Thanks again for the help so far! You are in FL there is no shortage of water to bathe in. Just jump in a canal, flag pond, creek, river, swamp, etc and rinse your rancid flesh You can also put that water in a bucket and fill your coleman shower with it. |
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As the last couple guys finally pointed out, there's an abundance of bodies of water of perfect size and temperature for bathing in your part of the world. You are SUPER fortunate for that, and should take full advantage. Up here in the cold corner of the continent, we are not so fortunate.
3-7 days is hardly worth bathing, though.. c'mon. Yea, you're gonna get nasty.. but if you can't find the time to take a real shower, you're also gonna be way too busy to be getting freak nasty. Besides, even if you did, sometimes the dirt and greasy skin and spectrum of foul odors is a turn-on- you can't get much dirtier, in the sack. I've spent weeks in the mountains without bathing.. unscented baby wipes, dude- all you need. |
| What I built is an ATV sprayer pump bolted to a 5 gallon bucket lid plugged in to the truck plenty of cheap hose going into our pop up out house/shower with the plastic shower head off a solar shower and on off valve. Warm the water up on the camp stove dump it in the bucket and jump in. We use this on trips to Colorado works great but if in a warmer climate a simple solar shower should work fine. |
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The fiance and I are going to be doing some hunting in the Central and Northern parts of Florida, we live in the Southern area. Needless to say our trips are going to be 3-7 days long. That's a long time to go without showering especially when trying to keep the scent down. I'm just curious what yall use for showers and such. I am not sure whether or not the places we are going have those types of facilities but I am almost certain they do not. I saw a Coleman shower at Wal-Mart that holds 5 gallons. I know 5 gallons is not going to last the two of us for 3-7 days so I was thinking of going to a camper supply place and getting one of the big water containers used to refill the water resevoir on RVs to have for extra water. Any suggestions on what to use? Fiance, huh? You're marrying a dude. U GAY!
Fiancee is female. Fiance is male. Actually I think you might have to turn in YOUR man card for even knowing that obscure bit of info. Just sayin' Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I'm in yankee land so generally I have to heat water if I want to wash up in hunting season.
coleman stove; boil about 2 quarts of water, pour it a plastic wash basin add cool water to adjust temp, wash with a wash cloth and soap. Rinse with wet wash cloth and towel dry. If in a campground rig a clothes line and hang some blankets for privacy/arrest prevention. ETA- always wash before going to bed for best slumber and to keep your bag clean. All visitation is in/on her bag.  If you're really nice, you get her some hot water again.
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I just use baby wipes to wipe down before turning in for the night. Then every two or three days heat a pot of water, put enough in a cup to get myself wet, soap up, wash hair and use the cup to rinse off. Sometimes it takes a couple pots of water depending on the size but it really doesn't take much water if you have short(ish) hair.
ETA: Unless it's warm out, then I just jump in a river somewhere. |
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Never had that issue...ya, its cold..like coughing your balls out of the back of your mouth cold...but it is bearable...just jump, there are few people to hear you scream...Quoted:
Fortunately in WA, finding a body of water to jump in is usually not a problem.. Unfortunately, finding one that won't make you hypothermic in 45 seconds or less is more of a problem.
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Get yourself a 1-gallon milk jug, a piece of 1/2" vinyl hose, and a cheap plastic shower nozzle.
Come shower-time, fill the jug about 2/3 full of plain cold water, then fill the rest with boiling water. You can take a dynamite shower, including shampooing your hair, with 1 gallon of water. Hang the jug a couple feet above you head and get the siphon going. Kink the hose for "off". Or get crazy and buy a plastic valve, too. Such luxury! |
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Biodegradable camp soap, and hit the creek or pond or what not.
Baby wipes for a whore's bath (pits, tits and ass). Dry bath which is basically a whore's bath with dust, real fine dry dirt, or dry snow. Camp ground shower. Nice, warm clean water, but nasty who knows what on the floors. Be sure to wear your shower shoes. |
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Quoted: The fiancee and I are going to be doing some hunting in the Central and Northern parts of Florida, we live in the Southern area. Needless to say our trips are going to be 3-7 days long. That's a long time to go without showering especially when trying to keep the scent down. I'm just curious what yall use for showers and such. I am not sure whether or not the places we are going have those types of facilities but I am almost certain they do not. I saw a Coleman shower at Wal-Mart that holds 5 gallons. I know 5 gallons is not going to last the two of us for 3-7 days so I was thinking of going to a camper supply place and getting one of the big water containers used to refill the water resevoir on RVs to have for extra water. Any suggestions on what to use? EDITED FOR SPELLING BECAUSE MY ENGRISH IS A NO GOOD...  |