What's the longest you've ever taken without a shower?

[ringmastery]

[private_ryan]

1. what's a shower?

n/t

[Langis]

2. 2 weeks

when I had mono, wow that sucked. Didn't smell to good either.

[terrya]

3. 48 hours.

In the past, I've spent weekends in bed. Sleeping the whole weekend, only to get up for something to eat. Not brushing my teeth or anything.

[the_boxer_]

6. Me too!...

[Bertha Venation]

4. three days, after surgery

My sister Chette, goddess that she is, helped me shower in the hospital. That's love.

[Westegg]

5. probably a week

However, my wife (we've been married 3 months) keeps me on my toes about this now, and gets pissed if I go for more than two days.

What can I say? I definitely smell better now.

[Bertha Venation]

10. congrats on your nuptials & welcome to DU!

:hi:

[HERVEPA]

7. 2 weeks (Raft trip in Alaska)

[arwalden]

12. About A Week... Canoe Trip Down The Suwanee

No showering... but river swimming kept the crud from building up too much.

-- Allen

[HERVEPA]

14. No river swimming in glacial melt water (35 degrees Fahr)

[slackmaster]

8. Nine days

Backpacking trip in the Trinity Alps in northern California.

Nothing feels quite as good as a shower with Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap after a muddy, grubby, hornet-stung ordeal like that.

[beawr]

15. Me Too

10 days after a backpacking trip on the AT, in a hotel, so it lasted several hours (I slept). And Dr. Bronner's soap too. Soapmaker Bronner is not only a prophet, but makes damn fine soap.

[smirkymonkey]

22. I love that stuff!

The soap, that is. I have tried the lavender and the eucalyptus, but the peppermint is the best!

[northzax]

25. and, it's handy for birth control!

should you need it (Dr. B's is also a spermicide, frighteningly enough.

as for sh9owers? two months (since I started to take them regularly, that is) Canoe tripping in Canada. but we bathed in the rivers and lakes, so no biggie.

just out of curiosity, any other Keewaydin folks here?

[Rainbowreflect]

26. The peppermint will really wake you up in the morning.

The soap also works well for hand washing clothes. Cleans & softens them at the same time and my clothes smell good too.

[XNASA]

9. Didn't have a shower in the house until I was in high school.

Had a bathtub, but no shower.

Went on a two week hiking trip once. No shower, just a wash cloth and some soap.

I remember that first night down from the trail. A nice hot shower followed by a martini and a big juicy rib-eye. Probably the best I've ever felt, with my pants on.

[Blade]

11. About a week..

I usually go on primitive geology research trips, so there is no shower at the campsite. I'm used to it, I guess.

[Superfly]

13. 39 Days...

I was deployed to the desert when I was in the Army. Baby wipes and washing vital areas was the norm. After a while you get used to your own smell. First shower after that long without is actually painful.

[TXlib]

32. Why painful?

[SoCalDem]

34. Probably because the "new" skin under the dirt was tender??

:shrug:

[scottcsmith]

16. Two days

Yuk.

[Rainbowreflect]

17. 6 days, when camping.

I did the sponge bath thing every day. But on our way home we stopped at a hotel & I took a shower & a bath that night and a shower the next morning.

[GumboYaYa]

18. Over two weeks,

when I bacpacked from Yellowstone to Teton National Park, climbed Middle Teton, and bacpacked back out of the park.

[11 Bravo]

19. About 2 weeks on several occasions

during LRRPs (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols) in late '70-early '71. If you think regular sweat stinks, you ought to get a whiff of scared shitless sweat.

[TrogL]

20. I've given up on showers

I can barely cope with baths.

[SoCalDem]

21. A week (girl scout camp), ..we bathed in a stagnant pond, does that count?

Most of us ended up getting leeches on us (GROSS) and about 5 of us ended up having to get all our hair cut off and having our scalps lathered with some smelly purple stuff.. (My FIRST hair cut at 12 yrs old..my Mother cried real tears :(..)

[damnraddem]

23. Years and years.

When I lived in houses with bathtubs but no showers. In fact, I live in such a house currently, but now I travel so use showers in hotel rooms.

[Xithras]

24. 38 Days, sweating the whole time

I was on an extended hike in the Sierra's with a bunch of friends (hiked from Whitney to Lassen and then back to Yosemite). We were able to rinse a few times by wading into streams or ponds, but the cold water in the high country kept us from really cleaning off.

When we finally hiked out in Yosemite, the tram operators threw us off the bus because we stank so bad. We had to hike across half the valley to our cars in the parking area, and then drive home wallowing in our own stink. I really didn't realize how bad the smell was until after I'd showered and went to pick up my clothes (ended up tossing them into a plastic bag and then the trash can)...nauseating. My car, unfortunatly, had soaked up some of the smell during my three hour drive home and also stunk for about a week afterwards. Ick.

It was wierd though...why is it that we can't smell our own stink? As bad as the smell was, it didn't bother me at all while I was hiking.

[Kolesar]

28. Did people bring food in for you during the 38 days?

It takes a tough, tough backpacker to carry two weeks' worth of food, but you went more than double that. Btw, great story. I know what you mean about the cold water just not doing the trick. You see a beautiful body of water you want to jump into but it is only 45 degrees--if that--so no way am I going in..

[Xithras]

35. A couple of times.

We also ate a LOT of fish (FYI, if you're fishing for survival rather than recreation, a net is far superior to a pole). There were many days when we did no hiking at all, but instead sat around fishing and smoking what we caught to eat later.

We also got supplies in Yosemite the first time we passed through, at Tahoe both times we passed through, at a backcountry waystation, and we had food and bait dropped off to us on a few occasions where the trails crossed highways. We never had more than seven days worth of food on us, but we never missed a meal, so overall I'd say that we planned it pretty well :)

[maxanne]

27. 2 weeks

I spent 2 weeks living on a commune in the northeast kingdom of VT when I was 16. It was February, and there was no indoor or outdoor plumbing. Not only did I not bathe - I was constipated for 2 weeks!

I was damned happy to leave. Best shower of my life!

[VermontDem2004]

29. delete

[greendog]

30. 8 months

I spent a winter in a cabin with no running water(or electricity). Bathing was done in a wood fired saunna with a bucket of cold water.

:)

[Nlighten1]

31. 3 weeks

Army training sir!

[Iverson]

33. probably between birth & first shower.

As a baby, I got mostly baths. Isn't it that way with most of us???

[kayell]

36. Its been about a year

but I take a bath in my big claw foot tub every morning. ;-)

Showers over the holidays this year at my parents. Their tub is waaaayy too small to be comfy.

[geniph]

37. About 16 years

we lived in a house without one...just had a bathtub.