Quicksand Fans

Hi everyone! First post here.

I was wondering how you wash up when you're done? The sink spot I frequent doesn't have a big water body nearby that I can access without being seen. Does anyone have experiences with solar showers, or anything of the likes? What would you recommend?

Thanks!

Hi anon_sunk.

Yeah so some folk just take a few bottles of water and get a light wash off with that until they can get home and shower, I myself have a a shower bag ( solar shower ) I find it helpful and useful for washing although it does help to have a few extra bottles of water. I guess it all depends on how muddy your going to get and how clean you'd like to be before heading home, from my own experience I don't drive so I am often relaying on friends with transport or using public transport to get around, I would suggest using two towels! one to use while washing mud off and the other to get dried with afterwards.

It's rare that you have a location without some kind of water available. All you want to do is wash the top layer off and then head home to finish the job. Failing that you can take a jug with you but that makes it difficult to travel light. Over the years we've improvised as required.









That last one is kind of improvisation at it's finest with a rain filled earth mover rut.

anon_sunk wrote:Hi everyone! First post here.

I was wondering how you wash up when you're done? The sink spot I frequent doesn't have a big water body nearby that I can access without being seen. Does anyone have experiences with solar showers, or anything of the likes? What would you recommend?

Thanks!

This is probably not really what was being asked about, but here at Studio 588 there is a hose system that brings cleanup water to each of the pits. The hose system is supplied by an outside sillcock at the house, and before that by an electric hot water heater. There is a designated cleanup location adjacent to each pit, which helps keep tje spillage in one place and also provides a simple way to film the cleanup. In the event we have multiple models (or rental guests) there are rare occasions when the hot water heater might run out before everyone has finished their final shower back at the house. In case that happens there is a second bathroom with ts own hot water heater.

In refereence to the question about solar water heating, during very hot afternoons, the water in the hose system sometimes get heated to the point of being too hot, but that is solved by having a second person hold the nozzle and simply increase the distance to the model.

Obviously, this is a permanent kind of solution that would be useless for sinking in the wild but it might be useful for people with backyard pits.

If you really want to get fancy, they make all weather outdoor propane fueled hot water heaters.

Duncan thought of these and ended up buying three of them over the years. This gave us local control of the location shower temperature.

My location has no viable clean up. In such a case I'd recommend the following:
bring 3 hand towels (equal to 1 body towel)
carry with you around 2 liters of water. I recommend a garden spray bottle.

The clean up procedure I use is the following:

1. use your hands to wipe off large excess mud that is stuck to you.
2. shower yourself to loosen stickier / finer mud. use a towel to wipe off
3. repeat step 2, two more times (i.e. for each hand towel). ration the water and towels such that you get relatively clean by the time you run out of clean towel surface, water or both.

hope this helps.