[pct-l] Baby Wipes

[Jeffrey Olson]

Sorry for the multiple posts.  I'm feelin' frisky!

I learned about alcohol wipes four or five years ago.  They enable me to 
miss "rinsing off" twice a day.  I try and rinse at least once, and then 
use an alcohol wipe as I am about ready to put on my pjs.  I never miss 
rinsing two days in a row.  All sorts of smelly, greasy things can happen. 

I don't miss once-a-day use of an alcohol wipe.  It's too important.  My 
guess is that my long section hikes would have been shorter, and my 
shorter trips less enjoyable, if I hadn't been using alcohol wipes. 

The best is rinsing before bedtime.  Ummm...

All kidding aside, - , alcohol wipes kept rashes and skin irritations of 
any sort from developing.  It wasn't til I was 40 that I had to deal 
with this.  Now it's a fact of life that I "wipe down" before putting on 
the long underwear and diving under the quilt for a dry, safe nights 
sleep...

It's part of being able to hike week after week, a maintenance item....  
Gotta keep the nether regions clean and dry...

Jeff, just Jeff (said in the cadence of, "Bond, James Bond.")


> Love the idea of kleenex, and of baby wipes, although the baby wipes 
> idea would seem to me, to be a bit heavy, compared to TP and kleenex. 
> But, baby wipes have more than one use- can use them to clean up after a 
> particularly dirty day, if one chooses to. I know we used them in the 
> desert alot- even if one isn't hiking, you just cannot avoid the 
> "creeping crud" one collects when down in the desert. 
>