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Cloth diapers and traveling/hiking/backpacking

by Elizabeth Thomas last modified September 11, 2008, 03:12 PM

I enjoyed your article, Heidi, and wanted to share the system that we've settled on, as I think it works particularly well for traveling/hiking/backpacking. Most of the time, we use a system similar to gDiapers, but with an absorbent cloth pad inside of a diaper cover. It looks like this. When traveling, we wash the pee-soaked items by hand, and store the poopy ones for home or a laundromat. If we don't have the time (or good weather) for laundry, then we can replace the cloth pads with the compostable gDiaper pads. These can be disposed of in a pit toilet or buried or packed out. At a minimum, we hand wash the diaper covers, but we usually only go through about two of those per day, and they're easy to wash inside of a gallon ziploc bag. Oh, and we also use cloth wipes, though we sometimes buy disposable wipes after they run out, depending on how easy it is for us to do laundry on a particular trip.

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