Our bathing facilities in our livestock trailer (with
homemade LQs in the front section) consist of one muck bucket, albeit
rectangular rather than round. We heat up a teakettle full of water to
boiling, add cold water and we can actually squeeze into the tub sitting
down. Our knees are up to our chins, but no matter. Any way to wash
off the sweat so we don't get chilled is fine by me. When backpacking in
the mountains many years ago, we found it was better to take an icy bath in the
river rather than try to sleep with dried sweat on the body. The salt in
the sweat drew moisture and caused us to get very chilled at night, even in a
down sleeping bag. So a muck bucket full of warm water is pure
heaven... Even a warm sponge bath is better than not washing off the sweat
at all.
I had a 'solar shower' that I used in my horse
trailer--it was a bladder you left out on the hood of your pickup in the sun
all day that had a shower nozzle--hang it up inside the trailer after the
ride, and PRESTO--warm shower!
From:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Normanjudyv@xxxxxxx Sent:
Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:09 PM To:
ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] comforts at
rides
If you really require all this comfort
how do you manage to sit on a horse all day? Why would you even want to
ride or camp? You hear people say all the time at rides, I have to have my hot
shower. I,ve come to believe it,s all about bragging rites. Who ever has the
most toys wins. I,m glad I rode endurance before all the crazinss started. Old
has been, jvm
