Personal Hygiene Issue

[EnergySaver]

I’ve never been able to personally achieve this … but my mother (just about to turn 80), grows produce and cut flowers and sells them on weekend markets (she’s slowing down a bit now, so it’s just the West Bend saturday market now). But she “plans ahead” and doesn’t eat after a certain time the evening before and only drinks minimal amounts of water. Not that I recommend starving yourself or dehydrating yourself before wondering about in the woods … but maybe there’s something to be said for going in for the find “light”. I new geo-diet plan?!?!

[John Robie]

As a First Responder I would really not recommend not drinking water. Americans as a whole are dehydrated anyways. I mean we are supposed to drink 1/2 our body weight in oz of water everyday. That mean that if you weight 200 lb you have to drink 100 oz of water each day. This is before taking in to consideration any activity. Now how many of us really do this on a daily basis?

[WISearchers]

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Originally posted by Miata:
Come on beast! Does a bear really crap in the woods???

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There’s a joke in there about a bear & a rabbit. Hope you know it! LOL

[EnergySaver]

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Originally posted by John Robie:
As a First Responder I would really not recommend not drinking water. Americans as a whole are dehydrated anyways. I mean we are supposed to drink 1/2 our body weight in oz of water everyday. That mean that if you weight 200 lb you have to drink 100 oz of water each day.

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I agree. Sorry, my comments were somewhat tongue and cheek. We’ve learned to always have water with us (a big supply in the car, and a large container with our geo-waist-pak) … no matter what the weather. Before we leave the house/motel, everyone goes to the facilities and takes a small drink of water … then we drink on the trail, in hopes that the trickle down effect waits until we’re back in the car and speeding to a filling station. we don’t speed, that part was tongue and cheek too

P.S. – my wife is a dietian, don’t anybody tell her I told you not to drink water! I’d rather get the speeding ticket.

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[djwini]

i am glad to see others are faced with this issue. it isn’t a problem when i am with my hubby out caching, we just duck behind a convenient bush. but i still haven’t faced the problem with my caching buddy. there have been times my eyes were yellow and floating by the time we got back to the car.
i’ve only had one time i’ve had to bury it in the woods. thank goodness i was alone and carrying wet wipes. i just bagged them in one of the ziplock bags i carry and threw them out as soon as possible.

[Cathunter]

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Originally posted by kbraband:
If you read the Leave No Trace article, you’ll see that’s not what the LNT people say at all.

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Notice I referred to the fanatics.

Depending on who’s book you read, it has been said that human feces have a highly negative effect on the environment. Mostly, it is brought about by the un-natural products we consume in food and medications.

I’m quite happy with the old standard.

[rpaske]

Anyone else find it strange that below this topic, ‘Personal Hygiene Issue’, the next active topic is ‘Which handheld is best’?

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[Mama Fishcacher]

Hmmm…. The only time I ever REALLY had to tinkle, there happened to be a porta potty in the park! (Woo Hoo!) Other than that, I personally haven’t stumbled across this problem myself…. And honestly, I haven’t been to too many geocaches in parks that didn’t have any facilities at all. (Or at least a gas station right up the road!)

I do have a 7yr old boy and he just gets to duck behind a tree. Dang you guys are so lucky!

Those *things* that LightningBugs Mum posted about sound really cool though!

~MF

[Ray]

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Originally posted by WISearchers:

There’s a joke in there about a bear & a rabbit. Hope you know it! LOL

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Ah, some days you fee like the bear, others you feel like the rabbit.

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[Ray]

I just spotted this news item and thought it should be shared -here- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/thailandelephantsoffbeat

[lucy92979]

Now that would definitely give the Tidy-bowl man a heart attack.

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