... for the first time since Cub Scout Camp 40 years ago. Any advice, apart from "don't".
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Ironduke
offlineMemberI first went camping in a carrycot and loved it all my life. Kids do too.
Take more jumpers and changes of clothing just in case than you think you'll need. Get up early. Don't spend a fortune on fancy kit; if you're driving then apart from a tent a gas cooker, a folding chair and a sleeping bag, you can pretty much go with normal kitchen stuff and bedding at first...you really do not need a folding spoon with a compass in the handle or an aluminium mixing bowl.
Take a duvet to lay underneath your sleeping bag and you will be warm. Take a barbecue, the bucket sort are brilliant, and cook breakfast bacon on it at least once.
Oh, and both matches and toilet paper stored in three different places.
Posted 10 months ago # -
allmyownstunts
offlineMemberOh, God, where to start???
As Nduke says, have a chair to sit on. You might think it's fun on the ground but it isn't. Go for a pee before you turn in for the night. No, really. GO FOR THAT PEE.Don't go for more than two days. If you like spending your holidays in a campsite laundry room with wifies smoking fags waiting for their nylon shite to be done, then work away. Otherwise, camp, and leave. Long-term camping is for weirdos.
Listen, I've done this shit, with kids. It's horrible. Regardless of the 'beauty' of the surroundings. Torridon, Aviemore, Uist. Anything else you want to know, just ask. Keep your tent swept clean of grass and stuff. It sounds anal and picky but it's the difference between 'horrendous' and 'really horrendous.'
Posted 10 months ago # -
Ironduke
offlineMemberIf you are going to splash cash, we've had these nearly ten years now. Look thin, but springs make them self inflate, then you literally blow in two breaths and you're done.
Whatever cushioning you use, still put an insulating layer under, preferably a thin duvet or at least a blanket. Key to comfort.http://www.completeoutdoors.co.uk/Thermarest-Basecamp-Regular-Self-Inflating-Mattress
Posted 10 months ago # -
shitsu_tonka
offlineMemberHang your food bag at least fifty feet away from your tent so's not to attract bears.
Put stuff like keys, money and other things you keep in your pockets in your boots at night, then you don't lose anything.
You will get cold at night, take socks to wear inside sleeping bag.
Sound carries so whatever you decide to do in your tent will be heard by everyone within at least a two-hundred metre radius.
Posted 10 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberUntil such time as tents become equipped with all the facilities which are available in a 5* hotel, I will not camp.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Ironduke
offlineMemberOn arrival at campsite, let one member of the party be designated to announce in an american cowboy drawl 'Right, hunker up the wagons, lets make camp'. Let all the rest of the party then mince around in effeminate prances of their own invention for at least 30seconds. Once chortling subsided, proceed with pitching. Repeat ritual at the taking down of the tents, with slight amendment to 'lets strike camp'.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Midfield Diamond
offlineMemberCamping's great, I go almost every year but sadly not in 2012.
Get off your head on scrumpy, watch Chemical Brothers followed by Flogging Molly then sit around on a hill with mates drinking Drambuie until sunrise. Crash out about 7am before waking up three hours later 'cos the tent is baking hot and the neighbours are offering bacon sandwiches and vodka shots to kick off another day of mayhem. Brilliant.
Which Festival are you going to?
Posted 10 months ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberTake baby wipes, you never know when you might need to wipe a baby.
Posted 10 months ago # -
grumblechops
offlineMemberAdorn a gazebo with solar powered fairy lights to ensure everyone knows you are middle class.
Understand your audience. "Pitching a tent" can mean something different.
Constantly play the Indiana Jones theme tune on a kazoo. Fellow campers love this.
Do not drink apple juice you find in a Pringles tube.
Posted 10 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberWell if that's what you call 'camping', even I could do that.
Posted 10 months ago # -
dvo4fun
offlineMemberJust make sure your friend leaves the pation doors unlocked. Or sleep in the house with the doors open. Better yet have the doors closed and maybe use the sofa [I think you can see where this is going].
Ah, how well I remember the Isle of Skye; in particular its midges. We were actually chased off the campsite by the bastards; collapsed the tent, bundled it up with sleeping bags, cutlery, stakes & all threw it in the boot of our trusty Vauxhall Viva [yes it was a long time ago] and when we got up to 50mph [no, honest] opened all the windows and turned the heater fan on. Had a better time some decades later cycling through France. Even the unexpectedly closed municipal camp we err.. broke into was in better nick.
Oh advice? Don't play with any Scouts. It's just not on nowadays. PC gone mad.
Posted 10 months ago # -
writinginbsl
offlineMemberaaaaaaaahhhhhh
vauxhall viva! i had one i called 'shady lady'-i remember well how the push rods became sharpened and i took many many months to realise-i just kept replacing the rockers on an almost weekly basis.
i dont think my viva ever got over 50 mph.
good times...
camping advice? never get ill in a tent. it really sucks.
Posted 10 months ago #
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