Keeping clean while on the move whether on a deployment, travelling for business or stalking game is always a logistical consideration. Â You can pack more clothes, you can be O.K with stinking like a primate OR you can check out portable wash devices such as Scrubba’s Tactical Washbag.
Combining a polyether bag with a flexible built-in washboard, the Scrubba Washbag advertises the ability to wash a small load of clothes in 3-5 minutes using between .5 and 1.5 gallons of water. Â In a six-step process, the Scrubba Tactical Washbag offers you the option of packing less clothes, so long as you have some time and some water. Â Weighing in at only 5.3 oz, this shouldn’t be much of a burden at all for your camp kit.
Those aforementioned six steps?
- Fill the bag with clothes, a dash of detergent and water
- Roll the top of the bag down and clip it shut
- Press on the bag to deflate it. Â The air goes out a one-way valve, leaving just clothes and water
- Rub! Â Scrub the clothes against the internal washboard for up to three minutes
- Dump the dirty water out, rinse your clothes
- Dry your clothes with a towel or by hanging them in the sun.
Should be easy, right?  I’m heading out antelope hunting this weekend in eastern Oregon during a triple-digit heat wave.  Should be an excellent opportunity to get the old Ranger Panties nice and ripe.  This is advertised as a “machine quality wash”, which if true will be a big bonus for the man on the move.  Even further than that, using it for family camping when the kids need another fresh set of clothes is something I can see happening.  I’ll let you know how the Scrubba Tactical bag works once I’ve run it through the ringer!  Pun very much intended.
Stay tuned…
