Camp Showers

[phageghost]

For $12 buy a 1 gallon garden sprayer from lowes. Spray paint black. Fill with water, leave in camp during the day where it will get the sun. Works pretty well.

This is what I do, with a small shower tent. If my daughter is using it, I heat up water in a kettle and add it in. It's also great for cleaning dishes. Cheap, easy, and small amount of space.

I have tried using a pump 1 gallon Home Depot sprayer and it was very weak. Unless you’re spraying a little weed killer with them they’re pretty useless. It was for sand at the beach and it took forever and was too weak to really rinse so the out rubbing it all off anyway.

Y'all are getting warmer (pun intended) . . .

My significant other demands a shower every day. It's a non-negotiable requirement. But over the years I've developed what I think is the optimal solution for (our) needs:

1. Get a 1 gallon weed sprayer from Home Depot, as noted above.

2. * THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART* While you're at the Home Despot, go over a few aisles and pick up a replacement dish sprayer nozzle, like they have in some sinks.

3. Use some combination of fittings and zip ties to splice the hose of the weed sprayer to the dish sprayer hose. Helps if you know your way around a hose barb. You will have more hose than you need, so trim to length (enough to reach overhead, usually).

4. * OPTIONAL * drill a small hole in the sprayer and epoxy in a brass Schraeder valve for pressurizing from an external source. However, I never used this feature, so left it off the latest version. It really doesn't take much to pump it up by hand.

5. Boil some water on the stove and add it to some cold water in the sprayer. You'll have to work out the right combo of hot/cold for a given temp, but if you're handy with math and know the temp of the cold water you can ballpark this and fine tune to touch. Usually around 1:3.

6. Put the shower in one of those cheapo collapsible privacy tents (I use the same one for the camp loo), hand your woman (or yourself) a toiletries kit and go to town.

7. Muy refresca!

I don't want batteries, gizmos, pumps, wires, propane fittings, fiddly things to break, things that take up a lot of space, things that have to sit in the sun all day limiting me to certain times of day and weather conditions or things that are unreasonably expensive. This meets all of those reqs and the whole setup comes in at under a sawbuck (or did, in the before-fore times). It's nearly impossible to break and if it does, just make a new one.

YMMV.

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[wibornz]

Definitely second the Geyser system. After talking with the owner for a bit last year at Overland Expo decided the non-heater version, since I always usually have a jetboil or equivalent with me. Just add a nalgene of cold and one of hot. Good to go. Also have different colored sponges for different tasks.

I transport water in the Dometic Go hydration jug.

A third for the Geyser system. I used one at Overland Expo. Bought one and then bought a camper with a shower. It is new in the box. The syworks great though.

 

[dragoneggs]

A third for the Geyser system. I used one at Overland Expo. Bought one and then bought a camper with a shower. It is new in the box. The syworks great though.

Maybe you need to lighten your load and drop it off on your way back through Washington?

 

[wibornz]

Maybe you need to lighten your load and drop it off on your way back through Washington?

It is at home on a shelf….

 

[SadRobot]

Well in case anyone in interested I am continuing with my camp shower pole build. I am waiting on delivery of 2 more parts before I can give it a test run.

I had to order an M6 eye bolt that will screw into the pole. For now I just used something I had on hand to show the concept.

The pole will then fit into a fishing pole holder that will be mounted on the top of my Teraflex tire carrier.

My thought is that the fail point will probably be at the mount due to the weight. Can't wait to try it out and see. If it works first try that would be amazing.

 

[SadRobot]

It works! It's a sit down instead of standing up shower but it does the job.

 

[Plumbean]

Day 1: wear underwear normally.
Day 2: wear underwear backwards.
Day 3: wear underwear normally and inside out.
Day 4: wear underwear backwards and inside out.
Day 5: Swap underwear with a friend and repeat Days 1-4.

Add a third leg hole and you are good for almost a week!

 

[Deleted User 38384]

Add a third leg hole and you are good for almost a week!

They don't call me "Third-Leg Greg" for nothing!

 

[Terrymo]

It works! It's a sit down instead of standing up shower but it does the job.

Bonus points for color matching

 

[SadRobot]

Bonus points for color matching

Fun fact: My actual shower in my house is also blue.

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