While camping in an Indiana state park for 6 days should I pack up my tent every morning before I go out walking, hiking, swimming or driving and set it back up every evening or is just loading valuables from tent to car enough?
My girlfriend of about 2 months and I are going away this afternoon for a bit of camping in the hills.
We’ve been planning the trip for about a week and a half, and I’ve made everything to measure for two. We have a two man tent. Enough food for two, two bottles of vodka, two of bourbon and a bucket load of lemonade.
I have this all organised, packed into my car and ready to go.
This morning she rang me up and told me that we were going to bring her best girlfriend along. Which makes our two…three!
I can’t fit her in the car along with her gear, None of the supplies make sense anymore, and to make it worse we might be joined by the girl’s hillbilly cousin and a bunch of his mates once we’re there.
G/F has no objections at all – loves the idea.
I thought this was gonna be our weekend…THE weekend, if you catch the drift. I made allowances for that eventuality too.
I was looking forward to it. Now I’m just rather pissed off
Am I alright to feel this way?
Why would she do this?
How should I handle the situation? – Without flying off the handle
Me and my brother are planning a trip for August and want to know a good campsite to go camping at. We are strictly tent campers and would like to find a campsite that is more secluded close to the mountains with less RV’s. We would also like to find a campsite that is pretty close to other activities such as rafting, hiking and other outdoor stuff.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I’m thinking of taking up camping, I love the outdoors, and would like to get a new tent (my old one is FULL of holes).
I’m looking to spend around £50, but will spend more if you can give good enough reasons ;p
What I’m after is as follows:
3 seasons,
Waterproof,
Pop-up,
2 or 3 man.
Any ideas?
basically i was wondering are there any laws stopping me and my friends going camping in this woods near me? its like a reservoir with loads of woods and fields around it, and it would be at nite, a small probably 2 man tent and not many people walk that way.
do i need to get permission? i really don’t think any people are even going to notice we are there :L but please tell me xx
thank you x
Okay this may be long but please try and answer.
My friends birthday is on the 19th and she’ll be 16, and me and a few mates were planning to do a camping out night for her party. There would be four guys and three girls. We are all 15 but a few of us are nearing onto 16 very soon. We were planning to camp out on a recreation ground near her house and there would be alcohol too.
So I said this to my Mum, explained the details…… and she isn’t letting me go.
These were her reasons:
1) Boys and girls, in a tent, do not mix well (there will only be one 8 man tent).
2) My Mum was talking to my friends mum and she said "Thank you for all the times you’ve let my daughter stay at your ex-husbands house." – but she’s never stay at my dads house only my mums. So my mum is concerned that there’s been some sneaking about between us all and she doesn’t know if I say I’m going somewhere and don’t, but I’ve never done that and never will (she’s my mum I wouldn’t lie to her!). Also it seems like my friends using my house as a cover for where she’s staying.
3) She also said that she’s never met half of the people that are going so she thinks if she knew them more then it would be easier.
Is it me or is this a bit over the top? I don’t think it’s a real reason and she’s done this to me soooo many times. Also I have a boyfriend, who she knows about and has met, so I don’t get why she’s concerned about there being guys there.
I dunno, I don’t think I’m too young to be doing that, many people I know go to clubs and stuff so it seems like nothing! Have I go the wrong idea and am I too young?
Thank you for making it clear.
I am going on a long-term camping trip at a campground and won’t have a car with me, what is the best way to protect my items and tent from theft or vandalism while I’m off hiking, sightseeing and exploring?
there is an out of town party i was invited to. i invited my friend and told him it was a camping thing and he said he wanted to go and he would bring the tent and give me a ride on his motorbike.
that was 3 weeks ago.
2 weeks ago he said he can only get a two man tent and i said " well there’s only two of us so it’s ok right?" and he said yes but seemed weird, so i assumed he didn’t wanna share a tent with me.
so i sent him an email last week asking what time he wanted to go to the party (about 45mins out of town) and if he was ok sharing the tent.
he texted me back 5 days later saying he might not go anymore but would still let me use his tent.
this all seemed fishy to me so i said " ok let me know what you decide." he was also my ride and it was too late to ask someone else since it’s a popular party amongst our friends.
yesterday i texted him saying " did you decide?" he said " i think i’ll go." so i said " ok let me know where and when to meet you."
he didn’t reply. so today i said " i think i’m going to sleep under the stars, so dont worry about sharing he tent but let me know if i can still get a ride."
he said " ok we’ll talk about it tomorrow."
UHHHH tomorrow is the party! I don’t wanna wait around all day to hear from him he’s not going anymore. and it’s a picnic/bbq type party, not a kegger so i would like to be there in the afternoon sometime.
am i being paranoid or should i ask around for another ride?
btw – we’re in our mid 20′s…. i think he’s acting about 16.
Have you ever had a night out with freinds or family that were so terrible you look back on them thinking they were priceless in a good way? For example ages ago me and my friends went camping, and if i remember corectly it was a saturday, and i had been partying since thursday so by the time we were all walking up to the woods i was pretty burnt out. We set up the tent and aranged a camp fire. there was 5 of us and there was only a 2 man tent, wich we didnt think to be an issue till later on. Me and a few m8s went into the tent to hot box it while the rest tended to the fire. By the time i came out the tent i was baked. And due to the sleep deprivation and booze I started to see the most insain stuff like the leaves on the ground being hands and seeing random faces in the bushes and in the tree’s, then i fort back to the film i saw recently called SHROOMS and it really didnt help matters but i tryed to keep my cool ( apart from when i got lost lol) few hours later we decided to bed down, it was unbeliveably cramped and cold and i didnt have a sleeping bag and neither did 3 other people. I batteld on and fort… lets try and sleep. While having a wide range of mad nightmares I woke up to a sound of "drip,drop,drip,drop" and i fort ah its only raining now worrys were in a tent it will pass, while i was shivvering my arse off. Then only to be awoken by a wet feeling on my face and i realised yes , the tent was infact not as waterproof as it boasted and the whole tent began to flood. all 5 of us were laying in about an inch of water. Considering the tempreture it wasnt good, we decided to head off at 6am and i fort the ordeal was over… but… it was far from over for me… i decided to take a different route home from the others to save time but in my hungover and tired/slightly drunk and almost hypothermic state, i took a wrong turn and ended up totaly inbedded in dence forrest in the middle of nowhere, about 4 hours later of falling over and being horribly lost thinking " im gona die" i managed to end up in bletchenly, wich was 3 towns away, i decided to be a man… so I called up the only person I knew who would be awake and sober at this time and could drive… so i called my mummy on reverse call ( dont lauf lol i really had enuff of that day), and forever now I will know… NEVER TO GO CAMPING!!!… but I will remember it for the rest of my life cos of its funness and stupidity lol!! any storys like this guys?
I have heard recommendations to purchase 2 tents. However, I am a single mom and we all need to be in one tent. I currently have a smaller 6 man tent and it is not big enough for myself, 4 children and our gear. The youngest is 1 and he requires more than usual. The tent will get quite a bit of use but only during the late spring and summer. A multi room tent is fine as long as the inner dividers are removable. In a perfect outdoor world I would love a tent with a full rain cover as well as storage vestibules (though these are not a must). I prefer to use an air matress as I need my sleep to manage four young ones on a camping trip 
Again, this is not a must. I would greatly appreciate any guidance as I know I will be spending over 200 and I can not afford for the tent not to last. Thank you!
I’m about to go camping for 2 months (in the height of a hot Brazilian summer) in a larg-ish two man tent and want to hear any suggestions about keeping the tent cool in the mornings. You know you terrible it is to wake up in a 45 deg sauna…. ANY ideas would be much appreciated! Top points for the best suggestion!
Hiii!
One of my friends gave me a 2-man tent for free but being a duma$$ i dunno how to set it up.
This is the tent my friend gave me: EXACT TENT!
http://www.neptunemart.com/servlet/the-242/tent%2Ctents%2Ctent-camping%2Ccoleman-tent%2Cdome-tent%2Coutdoor/Detail
It’s made by Neptune.
Anway so it has steel L shaped pegs? with a long white wire.
I had no toruble spreadthe tent and inserting the 2 sets of poles. Each pole has 6 segments that sort of interconnect with each other. Each of these 6 segments are connected internally by a white elastic rope.
Now when I inserted these they formed a X shape of the tent and my tent was actually up! But I don;t know how it is supposed to be curved on the top"???
Should I leave some of the pole not connected? Need help!!
A DUMB SHARK