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    Posted: 31 Jul 2018 at 3:35pm
We use a Pahaque stand alone shower (these are also used as toilet setups).  The 60 inch shower line attached to the hand wand required the stand alone to be very close to the electrical outlet.  A workaround is to go to Lowes and purchase a 3/8x3/8x3/8 barbed brass Tee and 3/8x3/8 straight connector, and attach a 20 ft section of 3/8 ID nylon reinforced vinyl tubing. 

I cut the stock 60 inch hose into 2 30 inch segments, inserted the Tee to reunite these two parts to then allow use of the stock shower wand for simple rinse jobs.  The third port on the Tee goes to a MagmaFlo Quick Disconnect adapter.  The male end of the adapter is attached to one end of the 20 ft vinyl tubing and the other end has a 3/8x3/8 straight barbed brass connector that fits into a second shower wand that I had ordered separately. 

The MagmaFlo adapter is the type used on backpack hydration systems.  The 1/4 inch barbed adapter fits into the 3/8 inch ID vinyl (20 ft section) by using a 1/4 inch ID 1 vinyl segment over the 1/4 OD inch adapter barb.  I would prefer using a Quick Disconnect that had a 1/3 inch OD barb, but have yet to locate that adapter.  When I want a shower, I get the coil of 20 ft vinyl hose with its shower head and push the male end of the adapter into the female end that is permanently attached to the center arm of the Tee.  I can send a picture, if that would help.
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Originally posted by furpod

One note.. boondocking/dispersed camping, is very different from park or campground camping.. 


Good point!  We only boondock - have never yet plugged into shore power or city water.  TV has not yet been used. We don't need a water pressure regulator or surge protector.  There are no campground bath facilities.  
 We do use the outdoor shower in nice weather very responsibly.   
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Make sure you follow local laws with the shower gray water.  You may find yourself being confronted by a local park ranger issuing you a citation to you as you rinse the soap off your bum.  In very remote areas outside of developed camp grounds, it's relatively innocuous if you use biodegradable soap, but in densely used campgrounds it can create some sanitation problems including the spread of some unpleasant diseases.
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Ha Ha - we used the outdoor shower on our shakedown trip to wash the dog...after she rolled in something smelly. Figure it will be mostly for cleaning dog, sand off feet etc. but interested in what is suggested for true outdoor shower.  We filled our gray water tank pretty fast so might be a good idea to shower outside.
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Posts: 91 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 May 2017 at 2:30pm
OK, our 4 years ago we had a problem with our cantaloupes.   I bought a RPOD made in Oregon last year and I still have problems with it !

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Posts: 320 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 May 2017 at 12:49pm
Good points, David, and a good laugh!
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I own two dogs. I clean up their poop ALWAYS and often clean up after others who don't. But my dogs and everyone else's urinate all over. Let's face it campsites are dirty places.
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It's the cantaloupes from Colorado that I worry about.  http://www.denverpost.com/2013/09/26/colorado-cantaloupe-farmers-charged-by-federal-officials-in-fatal-listeria-outbreak/
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That is totally fair.  The NIH in 2013 published work on how our skin has 2 billion or so bacterium, and if we have a dog, its even more.  An if I just came back from Africa, then 24 hours later zipped up to the smokies, there could be some bonus bacterium.  Their ability to survive would be questionable.  To me, and I am going to read this paper from Stanford to learn more, its like the 5 second rule.  Bill Nye and Myth Busters tested the 5 second rule.   Long story short, the likelihood of bacterium being on the floor exactly where the food item was dropped is so remote, there is no 5 second rule. http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/5-second-rule-with-food/

I haven't thought about food however until you just said that.  Throwing an apple core sounds simple enough, but if that apple is from Mexico, then its not so simple.  Boy Scouts didn't cover pathology in nature.  I was so robbed!
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Derek - Pathogens are everywhere there is life.  They are the basic forms of life that have existed for millions of years.  They have very little motive power except as hitchhikers, but they are extraordinarily effective at tagging along, traveling unseen and unnoticed all over the world, for example, various forms of influenza.

Every time you go to a campground, or anywhere else for that matter, you carry along billions of microorganisms, many of which can cause disease in other people or animals.  So when you wash off, you not only leave behind organism that you may have picked up in the campground, but also others that you brought from your last trip to tropical Africa.  Thankfully, living creatures, be they animal or plant, have relatively effective defense systems that keep us from becoming ill every time we encounter a bug that can make us ill.

Most potable water people carry to a camp ground is treated so that there are very low levels of pathogens in it. But it isn't that water that causes the problem.  It's the stuff that comes from your body, your food, etc. that gets washed off with the water and thrown onto the ground that can spread disease.  
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