- Air mattress and a good sleeping bag.
- Use a candle and a spray. You also shouldn't get bites inside your tent.
- Fucking how? Also, if your backpack has food, it should either be in your car, suspended in the air between trees or in a locker provided by the campground.
- See 1.
- Tarps exist for several reasons, putting them above your tent and your eating area is one of them.
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That's a lot of work when you can just stay home.
Do you use the candle and spray as a flamethrower
So many fragile campers in the comments. It's ok if people don't like your hobby. They might not find it worth the time, money, and effort to "get good". You don't have to defend the things you like from people who aren't into it.
I would normally agree with you on the “get good” sentiment being obnoxious to deal with but…. nature doesn’t fuck around. People who go into the wilderness unprepared can and do die.
It’s not just bears and starvation that can kill you. You can get sick, get infections, get poisoned, get frostbite, hypothermia, heat stroke, and many other afflictions that will either ruin your trip, ruin your life, or kill you if you’re unlucky enough. Even just something as simple as scraping your knee on a rock can give you a staph infection that costs you your leg, a risk that can be averted just by wearing a pair of jeans when walking in the woods.
But besides all that: camping is way more enjoyable when you do some basic research, make a plan, and do the basic preparations you need for the plan to be successful. If you’re not willing to do that then you probably shouldn’t go camping in the first place!
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Not when everything OP mentioned is lack of skills. One thing is to not like camping other is doing it completely wrong..
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There's two types of camping: (1) outdoor camping, which is the shitty one ; and (2) indoor, which has pillow forts.
I used to hate camping for this reason.
Then I learned how to set up a hammock. It's (roughly) the same amount of effort to set up, but I actually sleep better than in a bed.
Switching to hammocking made a huge difference for me!
Eventually I did the AT and hammocked almost every night. Only drawback was leaving my pack outside overnight and picking off the spiders and insects in the am.
You mean picking the spiders from you or from your backpack?
I case of the former, there are mosquito nets for hammocks. I use them when I go wild camping with my hammock almost every time.
I'm case of the later, maybe putting on the rain protection might help, as you can pull it off and give it a good shaking in the morning.
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I use a portable cot with a mattress pad, it's quite comfy =)
I love my backpacking cot, sets up in like 2 minutes and I'm off the ground and can lay comfortably anywhere, I like to lay by the fire before bed at night, it's perfect.
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The only thing I really struggle with is shitting in the woods. Everything else is manageable.
More fiber.
Also, if you wait long enough, it won't be a struggle.
Depending on how far you need to travel, just bring a 5 gallon bucket with a hole cut in the bottom. Flip it over and shit through the hole. Portable toilet.
I don't necessarily mean struggle with the act, it's just the nature of it.
I like plumbing, I'm particularly attached to it.
If you're attached to your plumbing I think someone put glue on your toilet seat
Tell your friend to gitgud
all of that and yet somehow i feel better than ever
At least your friends weren't trampled by a moose.
It's definitely an experience rather than a vacation sort of thing. I like it
This is why you day hike and sleep in a hotel.
I hate camping too lol, but I like staying in nature in a little cabin or lodge haha
I detest camping. I've camped in a number of places and it has never been good. I don't care if it's the rolling Mongolian steppe greeting me in the morning, it's still horrible.
I like floors.
Which is why I upgraded to an RV/Camper. The smallest, lightest I can find.
I don't mind being outside, cooking, eating, everything else. But I want a floor and a bed for sleeping, along with kind-of-solid walls.
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I like to set my tent up in the lowest elevation spot I can find too.
I live in the PNW, it’s like nature conjures up rain clouds to place directly over any campsite. People here act like the rain makes it better and will tell you to bring your own blue skies, a blue tarp to hang over all your stuff
i stopped going camping when i moved away from home. good riddance.
That's why I bought a camper van.