Tent Buying Guide (long, print it out)

("Mike Rapoport" wrote)
The bugs will get you at OSH if you use a tarp!

Montblack wrote:
Not one mosquito this year, not any last year either - and I'm a
mosquito magnet.
There were an inordinate number of crickets this year. They were all
over my campsite, which was ok because they were being quiet ...and, you
know, all that good luck stuff. I was in a cornfield campground 2 miles
south of the ultralights.

Reminds me of the old joke about the guy to took the innocent young
thing to the drive in and parked in the back row. As the are sitting
there watching the beginning of the movie, the lass comments, "Oh,
listen to all the crickets!"
To which her date replies, "Them's not crickets, honey. They's zippers."

"Montblack" wrote


Not one mosquito this year, not any last year either - and I'm a mosquito
magnet.

There were an inordinate number of crickets this year. They were all over
my
campsite, which was ok because they were being quiet ...and, you know, all
that good luck stuff. I was in a cornfield campground 2 miles south of the
ultralights.

Ants were my problem, this year. They even figured out how to climb my
power strip cord, into my van.
--
Jim in NC

John wrote, "Personally, I have been experimenting with
light/ultra-light camping
using just a 10x12 siltarp and a piece of 6'x8' TYVEK. "

Reminds me of my younger years playing camping in the woods near our
house, we used trashbags cut open and tape.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

John wrote, "Personally, I have been experimenting with
light/ultra-light camping
using just a 10x12 siltarp and a piece of 6'x8' TYVEK. "

Flyingmonk wrote:
Reminds me of my younger years playing camping in the woods near our
house, we used trashbags cut open and tape.

I sort of do that now.
In my survival bag I carry two of the heavy-duty 55-gal (body) trash bags.
They can be used as sleeping bags, tarps or bivy sacks, or ponchos.
Plus any other use you may require.

They do come in handy.