What's the longest you've gone without a shower/bath. Why?
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You commented only after an hour lol.
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Mount Buffalo National Park, 1982. Four of us left the camping area to watch the sunset. I stopped to take a photo and lost the trail. Went running after the others, slipped and rolled down a cliff, landed upright, but felt both ankles pop and break. (The whole park is Australian bush around granite boulders and cliffs). The others thought I had gone back to camp and didn’t report me missing. Next morning the group packed up and hiked to the next camp site, no one noticed I was missing until that evening, so they looked in the wrong place. I crawled to a creek and fell down the gully, drank snow melt, no one heard me shouting and crying. Eventually they gave me up for dead. Three German tourists found me by accident three weeks later, one went to get help. I got a ride in a helicopter, in hospital for two weeks while they fed me through a drip. The school gave me a payout through their insurance on the condition we didn’t sue them. I’m almost 60 now and my ankles still hurt and grind and pop.
What a story. You weren't able to move for three weeks ?
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It's the getting in bed dirty that bothers me. Sticking to sheets keeps me up. I could go a long time if I was camping and what not, but if I'm using sheets .. it bothers me way to much. My feet have always ran warm so if I don't shower I usually have to at least wash my feet so they don't feel stuck to sheets and I get claustrophobic or such feeling like I'm being held down.
Damn, same here. Couldn't have described the feeling of marinating in your sheets filthy better than you have
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Ye Olde French Bath.
Better than nothing, gets you pretty clean
My grandma called that a whore's bath. She also had funny sayings like, "it's colder than a witch's titty in a brass bra in January."
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This is an insane story. I cant imagine the pain you went through. Im so glad the Germans found you.
More crazy he was left for dead. You think they put together a huge search party first.
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Couldn’t eat anything. Story below.
Wow, thanks for sharing that story. What were nights like? Were you able to sleep? Did any animal interact with you?
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Two weeks while backpacking in New Mexico (unless you count getting rained on every day as a shower)
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Maybe three days? I can’t stand not showering.
I don't think I've gone beyond 4 I feel the same way.
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Wow, thanks for sharing that story. What were nights like? Were you able to sleep? Did any animal interact with you?
The nights were cold. It was the end of winter, there was snow further up the mountain, but not where I was. I dug down into leaves so I was half buried most of the time. I talked and sang to magpies, there were other animals around. I think I slept a lot of the time, they said I was feverish and in some kind of shock from the broken ankles. Later on I thought it had only been a few days.
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Two weeks while backpacking in New Mexico (unless you count getting rained on every day as a shower)
Regularly being washed by rain is certainly different from not showering at all for two weeks
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The nights were cold. It was the end of winter, there was snow further up the mountain, but not where I was. I dug down into leaves so I was half buried most of the time. I talked and sang to magpies, there were other animals around. I think I slept a lot of the time, they said I was feverish and in some kind of shock from the broken ankles. Later on I thought it had only been a few days.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]What did you drink? I can imagine someone surviving without eating for 3 weeks but no water? Impossible
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4 days: family and work
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About six weeks. I was attached to someone else's unit at NTC in California for a training excersize with them. There were no showers in the field, and the showers pre and post excersize were colder than a witches tit, and open as a gay mans asshole after all night orgy.
And that wasn't the worst part of the whole experience either.
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Close to a month. Depression.
I did change my underwear though
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If you swim in a pool every day, you don't need to really shower much.
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Couple months. Severe depression does that to me and all health care just stops. It's bad.
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A week is my usual. I know, I know, but my mental health is a lot worse than my body odour.
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First thing that comes to mind is spending a week camping on the shores of Lake Mead many years ago. Didn't shower for a week, though one could argue that being scoured by lake water when you either go flying off an inner-tube or make a mistake while water skiing, does a fine job of taking the dirt off.
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If you swim in a pool every day, you don't need to really shower much.
Counts as a bath in my book
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Two weeks while backpacking in New Mexico (unless you count getting rained on every day as a shower)
Yup, same. 2 weeks while backpacking. I did have a washcloth, of course.
