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Posted: 4/15/2014 8:23:03 PM EDT
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When on my Outward Bound trips and other wilderness type travels I would just wash them in whatever water was around, flowing streams were usually decent. air/sun dry.
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Posted: 4/16/2014 6:43:23 AM EDT
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If making a long term camp then I could easily see getting into boiling water and all sorts of things for some of the clothes cleaning.
Just some running water is better than nothing and whatever soap you have will also help if you got them stinky or messy or whatever. I have been known to hang stuff out on a line during a good long rainy day, it gets washed by the rain and when the sun comes out it dries. I would go out in the rain and work the clothes as well somewhat, this was more for boyscouts camping during a big jamboree or something where we were out for a week or so. To some extent it just depends on what I am doing and how long I will be out and how many clothes I brought. Just swimming in a creek can rinse your clothes out somewhat. |
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Posted: 4/16/2014 10:07:10 AM EDT
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x-large zip lock bag and a few drops of Doc Bronner peperment soap. Shake,need and wring out. Air dry.
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Posted: 4/16/2014 12:28:49 PM EDT
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I carry a 2oz squeeze bottle of Dawn dish soap. It can defunkify me, the cookware, and clothes.
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Posted: 4/16/2014 12:44:58 PM EDT
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With or without soap?
With soap, just wash them up and rinse them downstream from where I am getting my drinking water. Without soap, soak them overnight in a stream or pond, wring them out good and air dry. |
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Posted: 4/16/2014 2:26:31 PM EDT
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x-large zip lock bag and a few drops of Doc Bronner peperment soap. Shake,need and wring out. Air dry. This is the best method I've found when backpacking... ROCK6 |
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Posted: 4/17/2014 4:56:16 AM EDT
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Big rock in the creek, the norm of centuries.
Wet, wring, pound. Repeat as necessary. Tj |
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Posted: 4/17/2014 5:00:55 AM EDT
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Provided there is a readily available water supply, how would you do it? i'd pack a woman in with me, let them figure that shit out |
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Posted: 4/17/2014 9:10:38 AM EDT
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Provided there is a readily available water supply, how would you do it? i'd pack a woman in with me, let them figure that shit out My wife does laundry at home, but she won't do my laundry in the field 
Seriously, a large Ziploc a couple drops of Dr. Bronner's soap and clean/clear creek water is all that's needed. Just like a regular washing machine, you agitate it by shaking it for a few minutes, and then just rinse and wring. We only backpack with a single set of clothes with a few layers for different options, but after a few days on the trail, we take 20-30 minutes to do laundry and hang dry them. Ziploc has larger two-gallon bags which are perfect and I can do a shirt, underwear and a pair of socks or two. ROCK6 |
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Posted: 4/17/2014 11:05:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2014 12:34:44 PM EDT
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Waterfalls rule! But dragging the clothes behind the canoe in a mesh bag works nicely too!
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Posted: 4/17/2014 3:06:46 PM EDT
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Pick up a cheap dry bag at REI or the like. Not a true dry bag as it will be heavy, but the silnylon ones. They don't weigh very much, can do double duty in your pack, and don't cost an arm and a leg like the scrubba.
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Posted: 4/17/2014 7:52:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2014 8:45:29 PM EDT
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Yeah that IS awesome LOL!
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Posted: 4/17/2014 9:56:52 PM EDT
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Scrubba is cool, but kinda pricey for what looks like a dry bag.
A thick contractor style garbage bag would work and it could pull double duty as a emergency shelter. |
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Posted: 4/18/2014 11:15:05 AM EDT
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x-large zip lock bag and a few drops of Doc Bronner peppermint soap. Shake,need and wring out. Air dry. genius. |
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Posted: 4/18/2014 7:36:10 PM EDT
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Big rock in the creek, the norm of centuries. Wet, wring, pound. Repeat as necessary. Tj 
Not sure the gore-tex will hold up to that shit. |
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Posted: 4/19/2014 5:19:16 PM EDT
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If its really dirty and you don't have access to soap a little bit of ash from a fire can substitute as some grit and also help sterilize. Rinse well.
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Posted: 4/21/2014 8:56:08 AM EDT
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never heard of the Doc Bronner peperment soap stuff, will check it out. For years on my big long week plus trips where I need a refresh I usually take the tiniest amount of woolite in a bottle and hand wash. De-crusts your socks, undies and teeshirts perfectly.
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Posted: 4/21/2014 10:28:35 AM EDT
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With or without soap? With soap, just wash them up and rinse them downstream from where I am getting my drinking water. Without soap, soak them overnight in a stream or pond, wring them out good and air dry. Soap in the drinking water??? I don't anything about NY but if you got caught doing that in the Sierra, the ranger would fine your ass out of the county..... Soap, sunscreen and salt from your body is NOT good in the water source. In the 70's whole lakes turned green from this practice, now that washing in the lake is banned - the lakes are back... To answer the OPs question - fill bear can with water, carry 100 yds from stream / lake wash clothes - repeat several times. I've been doing it this way for 35 yrs and the clothes come plenty clean. Water will get you 90% there, no need for soap. A solar shower works great for heating water for person, clothes or dishes. My skinny ass waiting on my share of 104° goodness (5 liters ) - Ya is is well worth the weight if you are going out for a week or so. 
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Posted: 4/21/2014 12:32:30 PM EDT
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We have so much water we don't know what to do with it all.
Seriously though, in the summer time I will jump right into a body of water naked and soap up. I always use the biodegradable stuff. Obviously I go out of my way to not bath in a common drinking water source, but the river is fair game. |
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Posted: 4/21/2014 1:04:05 PM EDT
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The doc bronner or bonner or whatever tends to get stuck in some people's minds as hippy type stuff.
But running some searches on it will tend to turn up that it is pretty good stuff and more importantly it does a decent job without being super nasty to the environment. |
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