I'm just back from a couple of weeks' worth of camping around northern British Columbia, south western Yukon, and SE Alaska. One night was spent in a motel, the others were all spent in my tent. I skipped one shave on the trip simply because the rain and cold were just a bit much for me to face.
Unlike many, I'm normally an evening shaver, so that didn't change. I did, though, switch from before dinner shaving to after dinner shaving. After we ate dinner and washed dishes, I'd fill a quart pot with our final rinse water and get it going on the Coleman stove. While it was heating I'd sort through my dopp kit and fish out my Slim, my Everready 500, and a puck of (yes, dear folks) Williams. I'd put the Williams in one coffee mug and add hot water, then fill a second mug with hot water. Mostly it was cold, breezy, and the air was crowded with mosquitoes, so I wouldn't take off my jacket and shirt. I'd just tuck a paper towel into the neck of my shirt like a bib and I was ready.
I dumped the excess water off my puck of Williams, swirled the brush around and lathered up. I used my Slim, which is my normal travel razor, on 3; my normal setting. I'd make the first pass WTG, then a second lather and a second pass that is sorta XTG and ATG all at the same time. The result was a Socially Acceptable Shave that bordered on a Damn Fine Shave, but didn't approach Baby Butt Smooth.
I used the tag end of the water in the pot to rinse everything down when I was done, and that's all there was to it. FWIW, my blade was KMart brand (likely a Dorco, because it says made in Korea). Not my normal blade, but it was what I had left in my dopp kit from a previous trip, and I do prefer blades in dispensers rather than in wee cardboard boxes when I travel.
Unlike many, I'm normally an evening shaver, so that didn't change. I did, though, switch from before dinner shaving to after dinner shaving. After we ate dinner and washed dishes, I'd fill a quart pot with our final rinse water and get it going on the Coleman stove. While it was heating I'd sort through my dopp kit and fish out my Slim, my Everready 500, and a puck of (yes, dear folks) Williams. I'd put the Williams in one coffee mug and add hot water, then fill a second mug with hot water. Mostly it was cold, breezy, and the air was crowded with mosquitoes, so I wouldn't take off my jacket and shirt. I'd just tuck a paper towel into the neck of my shirt like a bib and I was ready.
I dumped the excess water off my puck of Williams, swirled the brush around and lathered up. I used my Slim, which is my normal travel razor, on 3; my normal setting. I'd make the first pass WTG, then a second lather and a second pass that is sorta XTG and ATG all at the same time. The result was a Socially Acceptable Shave that bordered on a Damn Fine Shave, but didn't approach Baby Butt Smooth.
I used the tag end of the water in the pot to rinse everything down when I was done, and that's all there was to it. FWIW, my blade was KMart brand (likely a Dorco, because it says made in Korea). Not my normal blade, but it was what I had left in my dopp kit from a previous trip, and I do prefer blades in dispensers rather than in wee cardboard boxes when I travel.
