Yeah. I use both. Wash in the cookpot, rinse in the bucket. The bucket is also a water hauler, settling tank if the water is turbid, and fire extinguisher (whenever I have a fire going, even my stove, I feel better with a half bucket of water at hand). Elf suggests that it would come in handy for dumping over the head of a fellow hiker, but I’m neither enough of a runner nor a fighter to deal with the consequences.

Much like the WW2 GIs, my cookpot does double duty! I do not wear it as a helmet, but I do have Ziplocs!

The piece of Tyvek that I use so that I’m not sleeping in the mouse poo on shelter floors or as a doormat in my tent vestibule is a great way to make sure that I’m not making mud underfoot when rinsing off.

Desert hiking may be a different set of tradeoffs. As often as not, I’m hiking in beaver swamp.

Hygiene is never s luxury. But a necessity. If I could do it in Utah…