Five-year-old Lucas trotted out of the woods with his hands above his head shouting: “I need the sap remover! I need the sap remover!”
Sure enough, the spring sap is running and he found it. But, no problem. He just needed the liquid hand sanitizer out of the toilet paper kit.
It’s a good tip to carry liquid hand sanitizer on your Boundary Waters trip for the obvious purposes, and also to remove pesky sap that doesn’t come off with plain soap. That’s one of the reasons we include hand sanitizer in our complete Boundary Waters canoe trip outfitting packages.
olive or other cooking oil also does the trick