Pitching Your Tent
It may sound like stating the obvious, but it’s a well known fact that many people go on camping trips before ever having erected their tent previously. If you’re not familiar with pitching your tent, this can be disastrous, especially if your first attempt is on some wild, wet and windy moor. So, it’s important that you’ve had a go at pitching your tent in your back garden or some other suitable place before you take it on a trip. It could save you hours. Not only that, if you’ve never pitched the tent before you head off on your trip, you might find that there are bits and pieces of the equipment missing which could even mean it can’t be used at all. Continue reading
Air Bed or Mat When Camping?
Deciding on an inflatable air bed or a simple sleeping ground pad, the important thing is to pick one which is comfortable for when you’re sleeping on uneven or hard ground. The best sleeping bag in the world won’t provide you with a restful sleep if you’re tossing and turning all night.
Not only do they provide extra comfort, they also form an additional layer of insulation between you and the ground which will further prevent heat loss.
How do they Work?
Sleeping pads work by trapping and holding a layer of dead (non-circulating) air between your body and the cold – in this case, the cold ground. Your body heat warms this layer of dead air and it becomes an insulation barrier. The performance of the insulation pad depends on how much air it holds and how freely the air is able to circulate. Continue reading
Camping Cold Weather
Even during the late summer, you can suddenly experience a chilly evening/night or run into a ‘cold snap’, so it’s handy to take along an extra fleece or sweater just in case.
However, this article focuses more on those who choose to go camping whatever the weather and how to be prepared for the sharp drop in temperature which makes camping in cold weather markedly different than a summer trip.
Winter or anytime cold weather is forecast is not the time to go camping solo. You should always camp with others and should leave an itinerary with a friend or family member, telling them where you’re heading and when you expect to return. Continue reading
Biodegradable Products When Camping
There are a few things that one must remember when going on a camping holiday and the most important one is that you are using areas of the countryside, areas of outstanding nature beauty, as a temporary base for your holiday however long or short a period of time that may be.
In this era of climate change and environmental awareness it is worth considering the effect your camping will have on the area around you while you are there. Will you be upsetting wildlife, will you be polluting an otherwise unpolluted area and what will the effects of your camping be once your have left?
Taking these factors into consideration is very important in order for you to enjoy your camping trip and ensuring that the area of natural habitat around you remains as unchanged as is humanly possible.
With this in mind it is important to consider the reasons behind using Biodegradable products. Continue reading
Packing and Pitching
Everyone who’s been camping for any length of time has a camping disaster story to tell: a tent that leaked, a tent that got washed away, a tent that got blown away or a tent that defied all attempts to be erected in the first place. However, there’s no reason why any of these calamities should necessary befall you. If you follow a few simple rules, you may never find yourself fighting with a guy rope in the pouring rain at two o’clock in the morning. Unless, of course, that’s what you like to do. Continue reading
26 Cheap Camping Tips
This list is HUGE. Here are my favorite ideas:
- Channel lock pliers make good pot holders.
- Nylon rope can be used as shoe laces.
- Use a large zip lock plastic bag, filled with air, as a pillow.
- A plastic bottle makes a good latrine for cold weather camping. (You don’t
have to ‘go’ very far from your sleeping bag). Keep it just outside the tent flap. - Carry several pieces of lumber cut into two-inch squares to summer camp and
use these to level platform, tent, and cot. Continue reading
Camping Tips
Follow these safety camping tips and make the best out of your camping:
Camping Tips
Follow these safety camping tips and make the best out of your camping: