on the risk of a tmi alert situation…
I used to be an avid camper/hiker before I messed my back up, and I used to wear BDUs hijacked from other members of my family - they wear like iron and the price was right=) Being female…sometimes the planned hike ended up with me on the rag. If you wear a pad for leak protection, you can change a tampon as I always seemed to be wearing BDUs one size bigger than my normal size. You simply take a pad of several layers of toilet paper in the left hand, hold the pad just at the top/front of the pad in the undies, snake the right and in and pull the tampon out with the string, and capture it in the pad of TP. pull it out, and replace tampon. Sounds awkward, but with practice it is not much messier than dropping trou totally and whizzing…FWIW, I have always ad to wear pads and tampon, I can bleed through a 16 gram super plus tampon in an hour and when one is working or in school, you cant always get to teh bathroom as quickly as you need to=\