Comment on Watching mouths fill up with towels

• randombullet@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ultralight community would pay $500 just to save 2 oz.

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  • raptir@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ounces become pounds, bro.

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    • PopShark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tell that to my weed pls

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  • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then nutnfancy will talk about it for an hour.

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• GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the key is to use a few drops of water or use the water you’re soaking up to activate it. Like if you took a solar shower while backpacking and wanted to dry off it would activate when you started wiping yourself dry with it which would make it easier to towel with which would increase the rate at which it activates in a positive feedback loop.

  If you only consider the context of the demonstration it sucks but if you consider you might have a pot/pan that has some water on it still that you’d like to dry off before putting it into your pack it would activate from that water too right? If anything the fact that they’re so thoroughly dehydrated probably means they can pick up more water than another towel of similar size and weight.

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  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just talking here but wouldn’t you take in and take out everything when you go camping? What do you do with these towels now that they’re big after being used? If you carry them back then wouldn’t it just defeat the purpose of having a pill towel when you could just carry a regular small one?

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    • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re the size of a paper towel.

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    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Usually you’d have a bag for garbage that you can put it in. It saves space to start with in your pack for supplies like food and water, which will be used up over the course of the hike providing space on the way back that wouldn’t be there at the start.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tie it on outside of backpack to dry?

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• Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Less weight and saves space. Note how in the post image it mentions they’re good for hiking, weight and space are a big thing when packing for hiking.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it really less weight though? If you have to carry in the towels and carry in the water, then combine them, isn’t that the same as carrying them already combined? Same thing with space. You’re compressing the towel but you still have to carry in the water.

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    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You already have to take water anyways even if you take regular wet wipes, and you should already be taking some extra water just in case. You don’t need as much water for these towels as wet wipes use, and in a lot of cases you can use water from the environment (like a river/stream/lake/rain/etc) so long as you’re not ingesting it or putting it on wounds, say if you’re using it to keep cool or clean yourself. So you don’t really have to take more water than you would have anyway, or at least not much more.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If there’s water available you don’t have to carry it in. Treatment tablets and filters are lighter than water, and let you make potable water as you need it.

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