Ask A Bear: Ditch The Deodorant In Bear Country?

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Back in civilization I tend to shower once a week need it or not. (also after daily workout and before social occasions.)

When backpacking I try every week or so when washing my three changes of cloths to wash myself as well. When I am with someone (I prefer solo) we all smell the same. I do warn folks before coming into the PO to pick up food mailings. How ever that is usually in rural areas where my comment gets more funny looks then my midday farm labor aroma.

Relax enjoy forget about the artificial guilt caused by advertising agencies. Hygiene is a health not social issue on the trail. (Wash your hands after ... Wash your dishes etc.)

Spent 2 weeks in the Canadian wilderness on a canoe trip and used Mitchum Unscented. Had no problems and we saw grizzlies on a regular basis where we traveled.

i'd like to contest the claim that no deodorant can match the smell of a hiker a few days out - try Keihl's Superbly Efficient Anti-Perspirant and Deodorant. It's unscented, comes in a small 1.7oz tube, and works AMAZINGLY. I spent 11 (very hot sweaty) days out on the wonderland trail this year with this stuff, and I never smelled like B.O. (and no, I didn't sponge bath daily). Of course, after a few days the sweat on your clothes doesn't smell great...but I smelled ok (: Only thing is this stuff isn't cheap - a 1.7oz tube will cost you $12.

Dear Pilgrim,
Please don't make your mate bathe by jumping into a lake. Instead, haul some water out and take a sponge bathe. Or, suck it up. His stink won't kill you.

Try a deodorant stone. They have no odor, no residue on clothing, and work fairly well on the trail. There is even a travel size that only weighs 1.5 oz. And they last forever compared to regular deodorants. The full size ones last over a year.

No deoderant on the market will kill the stink of a hiker a few days out
have done many bandana and water bottle baths at the car so clean enough to go back to civilization, including flights home

No deoderant on the market will kill the stink of a hiker a few days out
have done many bandana and water bottle baths at the car so clean enough to go back to civilization, including flights home

When I was backpacking, I did not bring deoderant, and chaffing was my problem. So, I would let my underarm hair grow out and that solved it!

When I was backpacking, I did not bring deoderant, and chaffing was my problem. So, I would let my underarm hair grow out and that solved it!

Dear Griz: Ain't no question that my nether parts is far more ripe on trail day three then any parfums knowed to man so the contest of ripeness between my pits and the rosiest of deodorants is meaningless. The real question is whether you want to carry it, bear bag or canister it. Somehow I bet all my trail buddies would say, "We'll carry it if you'll use it, and by God, we'll risk the bear."

Lewis and Clark noted in their journals how the Nez Perce indians were the most noble of native americans and particularly noted their habit of the sweat lodge and bathing. They contrasted this with other people they encountered who did not have the same bathing habits and held the Nez Perce in high regard.

Dear Bear, While you get along with all of your bear friends smelling musky, we humans males are put off by other human male pheromones (aka: stink) and tend to get annoyed faster and more agressive when our trail partner's fumes burn our eyes. The 'leave no trace' ethic probably includes fellow backpackers who emit noxious odors so bad that others want to leave him behind. Besides, that would be like dumping toxic waste in the woods. My biggest argument on a trip was with a guy would had not bathed or cleaned up in a week. We made him jump in a lake before letting him in the van to go home. We know that we should follow your example since you get along so well with other bears...wait a minute, aren't you the solitary creature who gets incensed (pun for fighting mad) when you smells another bear in your territory? Maybe the other bear needed some scent-free deodorant....or a bath.