Thread: Camping

Actually we got rained on for two days, and then it was gorgeous for two days. As long as i have beer and a tarp i can hack it but man did it pour on Saturday. The misses and i watched the Cedar River Flow come up 6 inches in about 4 hours. I tied the kayaks up that night!! Sunday and Monday were perfect thought. I got the kayak out around 5am Saturday and ended up following a Doe and two fawns along the edge of the wetlands for about 30 minutes.. was within 30 feet and they didn't spook. Yeah it was a good trip!

Originally Posted by Scratch427

A lot of times when u buy a new tent the first down pour you'll get wet also. Gotta give the canvas a quick swell to really seal it up tight. Don't know why when they say water protected they don't tell u to take a garden hose to it before ur first trip. Not every tent is this way but I have run into a few.

I don't know how I missed this. I agree with canvas, I don't know about the "modern" materials.

My 3 week bike ride thru 12 states I was able to pack all I needed to camp out, in 2 saddlebags, but thru the 70,s I ran all over the country on a 1972 electraglide with nothing but a sleeping bag, 1 change of clothes and a bar of soap and toothbrush, covered about 20,000 miles over the year and in some good weather and bad, snow and rain, and just as soon as I retire I,m doing all 50 states and some Canadiens provinces on one trip. My camping these days are hotels so I don't even need to pack soap! Tc

Six days in Utah with family and friends celebrating the 4th of July.

Originally Posted by MisterClean

Six days in Utah with family and friends celebrating the 4th.....*SNIP*

Aloha!

Wow. So beautiful. I love Utah. I'm a camper, hiker and fly fisherman, so I really have to love Utah. If I had the means, I'd buy a summer home at Sundance and rent it out in the winter to skiers. That last photo looks like a postcard. Magnificent photograph.

-Zip

I took a 2 week tour up and into the Northeast area to see some color last fall. All back roads touring on the bike, a 1982 Honda GL-500 Interstate. The hard bags plus a cargo bag on the rear seat.

Takes everything you see here and more. That's a 4 person tent, so plenty of room to hang out when it rains, tarp for over the cooking area, plenty of cooking gear, two small electric tent heaters and a fan for heating and air conditioning in the tent, a hammock for hanging out and napping, a camp chair for outside or inside (with folding footstool), and my iPad, solar charger/battery, 20' extension cord for getting power to the tent and clothing. I also have a collapsable XL cot with air mattress and of course a sleeping bag. After moto-camping since 1995, I have it pretty much down to a science.

I even have a neoprene cooler that plugs in for cooling with no ice and collapsable tent poles to pitch that rain fly over the picnic table. Those little backpack chairs are super comfy for their size. That little coleman footstool makes it really nice for relaxing - but that hammock is really where I end up spending most of my time during the day. But the nice thing is, if it rains, you can either hang out under the rain fly at the picnic table, or put that little chair and stool in the tent and hang out there. Again, it's a 4 person tent, with a 5' height, so you can sit and relax with all your gear no problem.

I took the GL-500 instead of the Triumph Trophy 1200 because I wanted to avoid interstates and enjoy cruising backroads and small towns. With the big Triumph, too much of a temptation to get on the highway and get somewhere fast. The Honda can do 90 MPH but those high revves as that speed get to you. It's more comfortable around 55 mph. Worked out great, especially at 55 MPG.

You notice a yellow line above the hammock in the first picture. This is one of those elastic clothes lines for drying your clothes and camp towels. But if you get caught in a few days of rain, you can also pitch that rainfly over that clothesline (just raise the clothesline up about 4 feet) and hang out in the hammock in the rain. I've done that. Now THAT'S LIVING!

Feeling inspired.

I'm off for a week soon whilst the wife works. If we get a break in the weather might backyard camp with the kids. Get them building campfires and cooking outsite and such.

Geek

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Busy discussing dates with the GF about our camping trip to the Southern Drakensberg before Christmas. Looking at 20/12 - 23/12 and a drive home on the 24th

We are looking at staying at a place called Lotheni. (KZN Wildlife - Lotheni - Introduction)

I spent the last couple of days in NOrthern Minnesota with my daughter

Soon after we arrived





The highlight was a walk that we did. A few random pictures.

A rotten pine stump. I like how the branch remnants looked like a Sheetrock anchor.



Sunning itself.





I forget the name of this Orchid offhand but we took pictures of every different flower we saw and this was the most unique to me.

Really lovin that teardrop trailer