Personal HygieneThere comes a point at which your hygiene becomes less your problem and more everyone else's:
My old school nurse never seemed to wash - instead she wrapped herself in crepe bandages from the first aid kits. The smell was beyond pungent. If you got ill at school, it was better to suffer than try and explain symptoms whilst only breathing out.
When she was eventually 'let go',they had to strip the wallpaper in her office to get rid of the lingering odour.
How scuzzy have you got? Or, failing that, how bad have people you know got?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 12:40)
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Two weeks in The AlpsPacking my rucksack for the mighty high lever walk the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt, I realised I would have to carry everything - and I mean everything - on my back across Europe's biggest mountain range.
So everything unnecessary had to be got rid of to save weight. So bye-bye wash kit, toothbrush, deodorant, spare underwear, spare socks, extra clothing.
Yes - two weeks in one set of clothes. Which were all waterproof mountaineering kit and in which I sweatily climbed mountains.
No wonder we got all the back rows to ourselves on the bus back to Blighty.
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splorp ®, Sat 24 Mar 2007, 19:52,
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