Have fun, Jon <3
Someone wasn’t in the scouts.
Seriously. Mice? Are they homeless?
all of that and yet somehow i feel better than ever
Go to bed earlier
Never leave your tent open longer than the time necessary to get in or out of it.
Store your equipment in sealed containers when not in use (make sure to wash and dry it first!)
Self-inflating sleeping pad + better tent location solves the painful and damp sleeping conditions.
You can have an equally bad time staying at a hotel, if you do it wrong too.
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!
I wouldn’t want to camp either if I was the kind of person who doesn’t plan ahead and also crumbles at the slightest inconveinience, I don’t want people like that camping with me either so go ahead and stay home please and thank you.
Yeah, I have a wonderful time camping, but it’s because I’m experienced enough to know what to pack. If it’s cold, a small cot (to get you off of the cold hard ground) and foam sleeping pad (to insulate your underside) will do wonders. Or if it’s hot, just string a bug net over a hammock, and you’ll sleep cool and breezy.
Also, don’t underestimate the value of a good solid meal. Some of my best meals have been made in the middle of fucking nowhere, with nothing but a Dutch oven, my pocket knife, and a campfire. It’s hard to feel upset about camping when you’re noshing on the best bowl of soup you’ve ever had.
Ok I will thanks
You sound like enjoyable company.
You know who isn’t enjoyable company? The fucking idiot who made the original post.
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
This is a very inefficient method of telling everyone that you don’t know how to camp for shit.
Yeah, you should definitely have a massive hangover in the morning, too
People that don’t enjoy sounding might not want to do it for reasons other than lack of skill. Same with camping.
I hate camping too lol, but I like staying in nature in a little cabin or lodge haha
Skill issue
I say the same thing when people say they don’t enjoy taxidermy because of the dead animal aspect.
This is why you day hike and sleep in a hotel.
- 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.
That’s a lot of work when you can just stay home.
Life’s a lot of work when you could just be dead instead
Being dead cuts into my masturbation time.
SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!
🖐️🥴
I feel like there’s wiggle room in between the two of those.
Holy shit, you’re right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won’t talk later.
Do you use the candle and spray as a flamethrower
Only for the big mosquitos
Alaskan SWAT team checking in.
- Or a cot. I’m a huge cot fan.
Not liking camping without a cot or a backpacking hammock is like saying you don’t like swimming because your jeans get too heavy.
But I have jeans. I don’t want to buy, store, or transport the right scuba gear.
I used to be of the “just sleep on the ground, it feels fine” mindset. Then I turned 30. My back doesn’t like sleeping on the hard ground anymore, but a cot is perfectly comfortable.
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.
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.
Tangentially related: setting up hammocks in my living room was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It’s so comfortable.
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.
Picking them off my pack.
I use a hammock gear hammock, attached bug screen and internal ridge line. So it pops right up as you hang it.
Why not hang your pack to keep it off the ground? I’m assuming you have the ability to do so, since you’re already setting up a hanging hammock. Paracord is cheap and easy to stow in your pack, and you can just tie it around a rock to toss over a tree branch.
I did do that a bit. Generally I preferred to just keep it under the rain fly though to grab stuff if needed. And that makes pack up in the am much quicker anyway.
Ended up just not caring about the insects after the first few weeks.
It’s pretty much the only way I get a decent nights sleep while camping, even with a great air mistress my back gets sore
Yeah, but air mistresses give really good blow jobs! I’ll let myself out…
Would be a flex to summon a giant soft woman to sleep on while camping, wizard goals
“Single white wizard looking to conjure a woman from thin air. Thin being the key word, no fatties. Must love pondering orbs and long beards.”
Wizard wants ads is a pretty great image skip to
“Contracts are so restrictive, we think of it closer to friends with benifits”
Tell your friend to gitgud
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 fucking hate camping so much
