Camping Reform

[kentonio]

Camping is stupid and annoying, or at least it was...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you the future of glamping, the solar powered tent!



https://www.inspiredcamping.com/solar-powered-tent/

[rah]

My wife's idea of camping/roughing it is limiting herself to 4 star hotels.

[kentonio]

My wife's idea of camping/roughing it is limiting herself to 4 star hotels.

Haha, your wife is a sensible woman!

[Jon Miller]

I enjoy camping. Proper camping is miles from the nearest person up in the mountains.

My wife and I decided to go camping in Switzerland with our 9 month old baby. I had always wanted to hike in the Alps. We ended up coming to a compromise between I and my wife's desires and selected a camping ground accessible to the train and with a restaurant, warm showers and even laundry facilities. I complained a little about it not being camping, but said that to save money we could just get a tent and no pad or sleeping bag (it was early fall, and we had coats!). I had camped many times without sleeping bags or even tents!

Unfortunately our baby got sick the evening we arrived and threw up on everything. So we had basically no clothes and just my coat... and Switzerland in September can be a bit cool. It was a hard night and I was thankful for the hot shower and laundry facilities in the morning!

We then purchased 1 sleeping bag (for my wife) and two pads (the ground had gotten harder?). Then we started hiking. I had been laughing at the fact that there were restaurants and trains in the mountains... but after 6? hours of hiking with my daughter on my back I was very glad to come to a restaurant in a beautiful location and be able to take the train to a cable car that got me off the mountain. During the night I regretted getting the sleeping bag only for my wife and not for me.

For some reason my wife hasn't agreed to go camping with me in the Cascades yet... despite our Swiss adventure being over 2 years ago!

JM

[loinburger]

The last time I went camping somebody walked into our campsite with a chainsaw and started cutting up firewood (I'm not sure what the legality of this is under ordinary circumstances, but as this was the middle of fire season the use of a chainsaw was very illegal as it could have easily sparked a fire), and my dad decided to confront the guy and ask him to stop chainsawing in the middle of our campsite. Fortunately the guy left without chainsawing up my dad or anybody else.

[Ben Kenobi]

Jon, it's much, much different with a baby. What if your baby gets sick?

[loinburger]

I have an emergency beacon that I take with me when backpacking in case I break a leg or get trapped under a rock or whatever - I lend it to my brother when he takes his family out to the middle of nowhere to go camping

[Lorizael]

The last time I went camping was on the road trip with my ex 7 years ago THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP KENTONIO.

[kentonio]

The last time I went camping was on the road trip with my ex 7 years ago THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP KENTONIO.

Any time buddy.

[Dinner]

Camping is great and no one needs a solar powered tent. I predict market failure.

[rah]

Don't be so sure
I got a few geek friends that would cream themselves over something like that.

[PLATO]

My wife's idea of camping/roughing it is limiting herself to 4 star hotels.

Does your wife know my wife?

[PLATO]

I have an emergency beacon that I take with me when backpacking in case I break a leg or get trapped under a rock or whatever - I lend it to my brother when he takes his family out to the middle of nowhere to go camping

That made me think of that guy who got pinned by a boulder in the middle of nowhere and had to cut off his own arm to save himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston

[kentonio]

Don't be so sure
I got a few geek friends that would cream themselves over something like that.

If I had to go camping, I'd definitely want a solar powered tent.

[Aeson]

Hammocks are where it's at.