[at-l] bandedanners Re: wet shoes

[Frank Looper]

there you go being too smart again! I'm dumb enough not to know
better. Therefore, I use a WalMart camp towel, cut in half, as a .92
oz wipe-the-sweat-and-dry-the-hair towel extrordinaire. Rinse it,
wring it, use it again. You want microbe soup? I use two bandanas in
my cook pot, a clean and a dirty. The dirty one could probably be in a
Mucinex commercial after a few days on the trail. No worries, though.
The heat of cooking could probably even kill morning breath, which
I've heard you eggheads doin't even get in the first place!

On 3/18/09, sloetoe at yahoo.com <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> There's an item that's evil for backpacking... one that finds and absorbs
> water. Bad news. Like a swimmer's towel -- or "backpacking towel" -- sounds
> compact and light until you remember that you want stuff to NOT absorb
> water. (Let alone the fact that it will quickly become a microbe farm --
> Ewwwww!)
>
> Leave your toweling to a cotton bandanna, which you can use around a
> fireplace and not worry about its melting, but it still cottony enough to
> get you halfway dry in a pinch. (And it can become a hat.) (And it can mop
> up messes.) (And it can hang wet around your neck.) (And it can be used for
> modesty in a sauna.) (And it can flag your presence
> during hunting season.) (And it can be used as a tourniquet.) (And it can
> ...... well, you get the idea.)
>
>
> --- On Wed, 3/18/09, KGJ <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
>
>> is that the "sham-wow" thing thats advertised on the MPM
>> (moving picture machine).
>
>>   From: hiker 317
>
>> Has anyone mentioned microfibre towels? They are much
>> more absorbent than newsprint and reusable....many different brands are
>> available...the one i have was made for detailing autos.
>
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