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Re: [RC] [RC] comforts at rides - Jessica Cameron

Someone already mentioned the sun shower, and that's what I use. It's fantastic. Not fancy, but functional by hanging in the trailer and an absolute luxury after a 50 or a 100. There's nothing better than feeling clean putting on clean clothes. You can also heat up a tea kettle of water and dump that in to the shower w/ some cool water, to make a nice warm shower if there is no sun, which does happen. Or, you can be like my daughter and make friends with everyone in camp and take your pick of whose living quarter shower you want to use. :)

Jessica in MT


From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Curtis, Laura (LauraCurtis)" <LauraCurtis@xxxxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC] comforts at rides
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:43:34 -0800

Our bathing facilities in our livestock trailer (with homemade LQs in the front section) consist of one muck bucket, albeit rectangular rather than round. We heat up a teakettle full of water to boiling, add cold water and we can actually squeeze into the tub sitting down. Our knees are up to our chins, but no matter. Any way to wash off the sweat so we don't get chilled is fine by me. When backpacking in the mountains many years ago, we found it was better to take an icy bath in the river rather than try to sleep with dried sweat on the body. The salt in the sweat drew moisture and caused us to get very chilled at night, even in a down sleeping bag. So a muck bucket full of warm water is pure heaven... Even a warm sponge bath is better than not washing off the sweat at all.

Barbara
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Curtis, Laura (LauraCurtis)
  To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:32 AM
  Subject: FW: [RC] comforts at rides


I had a 'solar shower' that I used in my horse trailer--it was a bladder you left out on the hood of your pickup in the sun all day that had a shower nozzle--hang it up inside the trailer after the ride, and PRESTO--warm shower!



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From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Normanjudyv@xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:09 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] comforts at rides


If you really require all this comfort how do you manage to sit on a horse all day? Why would you even want to ride or camp? You hear people say all the time at rides, I have to have my hot shower. I,ve come to believe it,s all about bragging rites. Who ever has the most toys wins. I,m glad I rode endurance before all the crazinss started. Old has been, jvm

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Re: [RC] comforts at rides, Barbara McCrary