shaveing while in camp

[Kharn]

I don't bother with it while camping.

[eggsalad]

Shaving is like wearing a necktie. It's completely pointless - people only do it to impress other people.

That being said, every 6-8 weeks, I whack off my beard with a made-in-USA Wahl corded clippers. Had the same ones for maybe 8 years now. Shaving never coincides with camping.

[GerryS]

It's a waste of time to you...some people can't or don't want to grow a beard or don't find it appealing.

I tried it this summer. I hated it. Itchy and uncomfortable, The debate....err...question is not weather you should or not....but HOW.

How shouldn't change all that much....whatever method you use, when roughing it the results you get likely will not be as good as you get at home...unless you use electric, in which case it can't get much worse. Below is from a blog I've followed that looked at wet shaving years ago....he did a quiet experiment with electrics. His experience is the same as mine. Again, as a barber who has studied this for years both academically (ha) and practically...a razor with a well conditioned beard works best.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/06/2 ... ric-razor/

-G

[jstrubberg]

I dislike facial hair. I wear a small mustache and goatee, but I can't stand to let them get very far out of whack without feeling like a caveman. Luckily an electric razor every couple of days does toe job just fine. I don't need shaving cream, no cleanup and I can do it by feel if I have to. The electric carries a charge for about a week and a half of shaves.

"Shaving is like wearing a necktie. It's completely pointless - people only do it to impress other people."

Some of us do it because there is nothing more uncomfortable than wearing a rug wrapped around your lower jaw...particularly in hot camping weather.

[NCBooger]

One more time bare with me.........


Very Very appropriate for this topic.......

I posted this 11-4-2008 and if you have read it I apologize but for the rest of you here is the post reposted....

At our fall Salamonie Lake gathering a couple years ago I told John Spratt about my 1st boy scout experience without power. Our Scout master Ed Forester (no kidding) asked us Scouts to find him a tree that had been hit by lightning. We scattered 4 - 5 directions and were to report back in 5 - 10 minutes. Well a tree WAS located ( Probably an old elm with blight) . The top was ratty and blasted out so Mr Forester said that it indeed had sustained a lightning strike. After his speach to convince us he pulled out his hunting knife and carved 2 small slits in the tree trunk and from a pouch he then produced his electric razor. He inserted the power cord into the 2 slots that had been carved, turned on his razor and started to shave to the total and absolute amazement of 10 - 12 of us 1st year scouts.


(Battery backup is a good thing)

Too funny... I did this this past spring also for the Scouts (Cub Scouts). I even impressed the Cub Master! He hadn't seen or heard of that one either.

[GerryS]

Love a good game of rope-a-dope.

[bobhenry]

Some of us do it because there is nothing more uncomfortable than wearing a rug wrapped around your lower jaw...particularly in hot camping weather.

I see my beard more as a swamp cooler than a rug !

[starleen2]

Shaving while camping? Preposterous!

[jstrubberg]

I see my beard more as a swamp cooler than a rug !

Wouldn't the world be a dull place if everyone thought and felt the same about everything?