Do you like to be in nature? Can't imagine life without hiking in your native land? Are you building a cottage while you have nowhere to wash? Or maybe you just like extreme sports? You will have to learn how to build a camping shower with your own hands. You can make it from almost any improvised containers. Washing in warm water, in a warm room is not only pleasant: in cold weather, he alth can depend on such a shower. Even beginner conquerors of nature can build a camping shower.
Building a watering can
The simplest shower works like this. A curtain is attached to the tree (if you want to wash alone). A hole is made in the cap of a large plastic bottle, where a piece of hose is inserted. The lid itself is attached to the bottle with electrical tape (if there is a hose). If not, then to pour water, just unscrew the lid. For a large capacity, any thin hose is suitable, for a "one and a half" - a tube from a dropper. It must be securely fastened in the opening of the cover. To prevent water from flowing spontaneously, you can pinch the hose with a stopper or use a wire hook to attach the end at the top. Next - cut the bottom of the bottle,close the lid, strengthen on a high branch. For convenience, you can place the bottle in a net or simply attach it to a branch with a wire. The simplest camping shower is ready. Instead of a plastic bottle, you can use an Esmarch mug, a heating pad, etc. Such a device is quite suitable for summer time.
But what if you are on a hike, around the mountain and -20 ° C, but you really want to wash? Actually, it is the next building that will be what is called a “real camping shower”. Naturally, you can make it anywhere, but, they say, it was the climbers who came up with this method of hygiene.
Building a portable camping shower
Actually, only a curtain and a water tank will be portable. All other parts are assembled directly on the h alt. We will need:
- Fire igniters.
- Boulders the size of a three-year-old boy's head, but you can use a bucket of regular pebbles or other stones.
- Shutter.
- Plastic bottle with stopper and hose.
- Tent or film stretched over a frame. The frame can be carried with you, or it can be built between trees.
In order to build a warm camping shower, we kindle a fire, put stones in it, heat water over the fire. While everything is warming up, we mount a kind of wigwam from cellophane (if there is no empty tent). You can use branches, etc.
We make a mount above the wigwam: here we will hang a plastic bottle (see the device above) with water. When the stones warm upneatly stack them around the perimeter of the "wigwam". This is the most dangerous part of the procedure: you can burn yourself. Boulders or pebbles must cool in the "tepee" so that they can be stood on. In the process of cooling, they warm the air very much. Then we hang a bottle of hot water and … with a light steam! Usually, stones allow 4-5 tourists to take a camping shower, and only after that the “room” begins to cool down. If you do everything quickly, and take more boulders, then even a group of 15 people will have time to complete the required bath procedures.
