Do I offend??

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:53 pm

I just came back from six days in the Red. My parents tell me that I smell and that I need a shower! I can't smell me. I don't even notice. Has anyone else ever not "felt" dirty when everyone else says they were?Parler!!!

Post by **Gretchen** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:19 pm

If I can't smell me then I don't worry about it! It is beautiful how the nose works!

Post by **Caspian** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:33 pm

every day

This one time I was helping Miguel throw all the bags of beer from under the place and put them in the trailer to take them too recycling. I figured I should help since a bunch of them were mine anyways. So we get done and Miguel thanked me an offerd me a shower token to helping. I told him no thanks were needed and declined any payment. He came back a few minutes later with two shower tolkens and told me to take a long shower.

Considering he is around a bunch of smelly climbers all year, I must have smelled pretty bad. I had no clue.

Post by **canadaclimbergirl** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:40 pm

since we are on topic...
how long have you went without a shower??

I have went 8 days with no shower. nothing like going on a road trip.

Now..I knew that I stank....it was pretty gross...but hey...we all did...so it didn't matter. I think that I started stinking around day 4 or 5.

The shower I took when I got home was the BEST EVER!!!

Post by **longlegsrule** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:50 pm

does getting in hot springs every night on a road trip count as a shower??

We all got pretty gross during the day on our trip...all of us smelled...even me...and I rarely smell when I sweat...there's something about sweating in the sun that makes you smell even worse I think.

Post by **Yasmeen** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:02 pm

I think the longest I've gone without a shower is 5 days, maybe 6, but I've done it much more than once. Summer's great because you can just jump into a river-- much more fun than a shower, and free!

Post by **canadaclimbergirl** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:03 pm

yes..the sun is bad...I think that the hot springs are a 'quasi-shower'

I was in the cold 40F ish.., sweating in the day climbing in 60F temps and shivering at night sleeping with our long johns on....You all know how bad 'dryfit' smells after one day....let alone 8!!!!!
YUCK!

Post by **spuzo** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:18 pm

I think the smell is just stuck in my nose, I have showered and am at work after many days at the Red and still catch whiffs of that wonderful camping/climbing/hiking smell, however, the usual friendliness showed to me by my co-workers is a bit lacking today. So maybe it is not just my nose....

I think the longest I went though was while doing a crazy cannonball run from the tip of Italy back up to Edinburgh, Scotland - we didn't have time to stop anywhere and had to get back for school...it was more than a week (should be able to do that trip in like two days, but there were some obstacles and mishaps). I was definitely funk-d-fied. My roommates could smell me as I pulled into the train station....

Post by **Jeff** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:23 pm

21 days when I was in the Airborne.
Training with the Special Forces out in the woods.
Never want to go that long again, but after a week or so it's all the same

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Post by **SCIN** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 3:06 am

My friend and I went a month once. We finally went to a car wash in St. George and he about blew his dick off when he stuck the nozzle down his pants and pulled the trigger. High pressure. Damn that was funny.