Ultimate Camping Thread

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wut you laughing at ? You don't even know what we do to you when you fall asleep

Woot!

 

lol. tiks and snakes don’t bother me to much. spiders. well lets just say i turn into a ninja and yell. lmao. I hate spiders!!! I can deal with none venomous snakes all day. have been bit by a corn snake and it kinda hurt drew a little blood but did not bother me.

 

lol ticks definitely suck. I dont tuck everything in like you but I remember driving home one day after hiking and saw a tick just before it crawled along my leg and up my shorts. Damn near wrecked the car brushing it out.

Haven't been on TW much lately but now that I have a new job and back in OH I am sure I'll be on more.... plus I am getting a taco in the next month or 2!

My fear of snakes (non poisonous ones) has gone down... Still don't like them but spiders.... screw all of that. We have an unfinished basement that is never really dry and has cracked foundation... you have to be extremely careful lifting up boxes on the floor down there because there have been numerous occasions where there were 3-4" wide brown recluse spiders under them and those bastards JUMP at you. Ive screamed like a little bitch on multiple occasions.

 

My fears in life are bugs, spiders mostly, tics are evil, heights, and snakes don't really bother me.

 

damn1 ya i’d scream like a bitch as well...

I hate bugs as well.

 

i got a good chuckle out of the last couple pages... here we are, like minded, self sufficient people who love the outdoors and are willing to sleep in a fabric enclosure that can be measured in micrometers, on the ground, potentially surrounded by coyotes, bears, mtn lions, rabid creatures, deranged deer and the occasional startled moose, creatures that are capable of disemboweling you...
And we all scream at a very high pitch, slap ourselves silly, run, fall down and damn near pee ourselves when we have an insect the size of a pencil tip crawling up our legs.
Of course that tiny insect can cause big problems on it's own, but you have to see the irony..

I hate spiders too btw, all of them. When I'm stalking through the woods and get some damn web across the face, well, it's pretty comical to anyone watching.

 

Im with ya!It is very funny I don't really care about the animals but little tiny insects make me scream, though it might be that I have dogs and a boom stick for the big animals if only ticks were the size of deer...

 

yeah it is pretty funny. one thing that does not really bother me is moths or nats. get a lot of that when night fishing off the bank. yeah bigger animals don’t really scare me ever. I hunt some of them so... don’t have to worry about moose or anything around here. we do have elk in some places.


should have seen me when a buddy told me i had a spider on my back. i jumped around yelling get it of get it off get it off all over his bed room and waving my arms around.

 

so true....i HATE TICKS
ask anyone who camps with me...im like the tick prevention person......errrr
thats why i like vt..have not ever seen one.......
went hiking up in orange county ny 2 years ago....decided to break off trail and make a climb.....got to top and did a check f ing 9 ticks on my pant legs....
5 deer ticks and 4 woodland
now i never go off trail, unless its winter

 

They're around in winter also, one of my dogs picked one up in December.

 

Went camping earlier this month with some friends. Two night backpack into the wilderness.







Can you see my friend on the boulders in the center of this photo?

 

where is the water?
do you pack all your own?
whata you do for fire

 

I was thinking the same thing

 

anybody use these? I bought a couple to try out. super light weight and seems like a pretty good idea.



Here is how they work

 

I LOVE those things! i have one kinda big one with a carabiner on it. i use it to tie/hold stuff down in the truck bed all the time. stuff like push mowers, back pack blower. helps keep it from rolling or bouncing around. they are good for so many things. don’t have to use a carabiniere, but i do because makes it easier to hook it to the bed rail tie downs or the D-ring by the tail gate.

 

Water is carried in backpack, about 9-liters per person for two days. I re-purpose 2-liter soda bottles.

Fire. Yes we do fire in the desert.

 

DO U CARRY THE WOOD IN

 

nice! glad you like them. Ive seen them used for camping and what you use yours for. I just like the fact that I wont have to deal with knots!! especially in the winter if I have gloves on!