Have fun, Jon <3
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.
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.
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 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.
I hate camping too lol, but I like staying in nature in a little cabin or lodge haha
This is why you day hike and sleep in a hotel.
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 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
Skill issue
I say the same thing when people say they don’t enjoy taxidermy because of the dead animal aspect.
I fucking hate camping so much
- 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.
- 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.
Do you use the candle and spray as a flamethrower
Only for the big mosquitos
Alaskan SWAT team checking in.
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…
Tell your friend to gitgud
Was your tent just a sheet over a single string?
If you’re in a hammock, a tarp overhead (and maybe a bug net around the hammock) is often all you need. You’re off the ground, so you don’t need to worry about water runoff. And sleeping in the open means there’s always a breeze to keep you cool, even on a warm rainy night. All the tarp does is keep the wet from hitting you in the face, and gravity keeps it off of everywhere else.
I detest camping. I’ve camped in a number of places and it has never been good. I don’t care if it’s the rolling Mongolian steppe greeting me in the morning, it’s still horrible.
I like floors.
Which is why I upgraded to an RV/Camper. The smallest, lightest I can find.
I don’t mind being outside, cooking, eating, everything else. But I want a floor and a bed for sleeping, along with kind-of-solid walls.
That sounds about where I’m at. I’m happy to spend all day outside and I prefer to be barefoot in general. But I want a bit of floor for sleeping on. Far too many nights spent in perpetually soggy tents!
