RE: [Philmont]: bathing (cut down milk cartons etc.)

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Not judging, but responding;

> Two thoughts on this (not judging but thinking out loud). Remember the
> general rule about nothing after late afternoon as far as
> smellables being
> applied to one's body.

Actually, I generally used them on my feet when arriving in camp and
changing shoes and before eating when I didn't use the hand sanitizer. The
ones I carried were labeled scent free. I think they were the "equate"
brand from walmart. We also used them to clean cuts and scrapes. I
understand there is a difference between what is scent free to me and what
is scent free to a bear - that's why I treated them as a smellable. I do
believe they are less attractive to a bear than the food smells.

 Bill obviously survived with no
> incidents but as I
> recall those wipes have a pretty good scent and could be a
> bear attraction.
> I'm a big believer in keeping trash to a bare/bear minimum
> :). Remember that
> every ounce of backcountry trash must be packed out, mostly
> by staff members
> and Philmont already provides us with enough trash as it is.
> One person
> using wipes is no big deal (perhaps 2/day) but 12 people x 50
> or so crews
> would really add up. Yea, I know that isn't the reality but
> it just goes
> along with LNT ethics. If everyone picked up a stone from the
> top of Baldy
> to take home as a souvenir there'd be a big hole in the
> ground there by now!

I took the trash compacting as a personal challenge. My food wrappers and
what ever else I didn't personally pack out generally fit in the equivalent
of 1/2 of the personal sized cereal boxes we used for breakfast.

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Received on Thu May 1 12:32:28 2003