If you’ve led an adventurous life, you’ve definitely had moments when your personal hygiene erred on the side of offensive. I know I’ve caught a whiff of myself after a week or two camping in Moab and wondered how many friends have been able to stand the smell of me.
Many hikers, myself included, just get on with the backcountry side effect of body odor, accepting it as a necessary by-product of getting to romp around in nature, but for others it can be a genuine source of embarrassment. I had a woman join one of my Yosemite hiking retreats years ago who ended up driving herself 45 minutes out of the park just to find a shower, though none of us had noticed anything particularly exceptional about her scent.
