Nice yellow sleeping baq you have there ...OH! Never mind...
Nice yellow sleeping baq you have there ...OH! Never mind...
"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." - T.S. Eliot
i still want to know if sidesaddle is preferred over kneeling in ones tent. alot less trouble to take few steps outside
Bivies are even better than tents for the middle of the night missions.
Now lets discuss the how-too's of deification in a 1gal. zip lock bag, ya know, birthing the angry turtle head...it's been a while!
Wait. People don't get up to use the bathroom?
Interesting
-Jason
Anybody have recommendations for a UL catheter?
While on a shakedown hike this weekend I thought of an old thread saw on this subject. I was on Tumbledown Mountain in Weld Maine. Temperatures were in the 20's. I was sleeping in a bag rated for 45 and in a bivy. About 2 AM I had the urge and thought, "I wonder if the bottle trick would have been worth it?" I left my cocoon and did my business. Even in those conditions it seemed like it would be less work to use the ground as it would be to use a bottle.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
1211831_bedpan.jpg Or for the UL crowd this one is light and doubles as a pillow. pan.png
I've failed to go outside and pee only once. Camping during bow season a few years back, woke up with the urge, thought it will only be another hour before I get up anyway so I'll wait, went back to sleep and started dreaming.... I was standing in a sand ditch where I squirrel hunted when I was young, drilling a hole in the sand,.........
See, that's what I'm saying. But snifur, the manly man that he is, doesn't agree. Nor do I need him (or anyone else) to. What's 'gross' to me is the sheer amount of people on the trail who likely practice no safe after-relief sanitation practices. I'm sure there would be a lot less sickness if everyone were a bit more vigilant about that. But I digress.
We are all one big human family.
sloth, you introduce a great point. sanitation is integral to a successful hike with health. i prefer to remain clean and pee away from my body and away from others. it was taught to me before i was two years old. i am fully potty trained. people like you evidently are bladder control challenged and require emergency pee procedures in the event of a crisis. i am not judging you. i am judging all pee bottle users for their lack of decency. during my thru i can not count how many people peed from inside the shelter. some would stand and pee off the edge. on one occasion i witnessed the result of the baggie technique and the horror of the female that received the effects of said baggie. others would use the bottle. the bottle use produces a distinct sound during the filling process. let me ask you- do you carry a gallon jug and pass it around at night to share with your hiking buddies or is everyone left to decide their own method for pee depository and disposal?