Many people today are keen on recapturing the ultimate summer experience, and nothing says ‘Summer!’ like camping out in a tent. To make the most out of your tent camping experience, here are some tips to remember in the wild outdoors. Keep these tips in mind and you’ll have more ‘oohs’ from your tent camping trip than ‘arghs’.
1.) Plan to arrive while there’s a lot of daylight to set up camp; the closer to sunrise the better. Remember, you are replicating your own residence (roughly speaking) in the campsite you’re going to, and this means you’ll be doing an accelerated version of constructing a dwelling with kitchen (campfire), sleeping quarters (your tent), restroom facilities (depends on how rustic your tent campsite is) and garden/recreation area. While you may have a rough idea of how things will be set up, remember that the lay of the tent camping site will include trees, rocks, dips in the terrain and other considerations that you need to account for only when you get there. Part of the fun of tent camping is the flexibility roughing it demands of you.
2.) Make sure you have figured out how to assemble your tent before you arrive at the campsite. This means setting up the tent overnight in your own backyard and leaving it overnight to make sure it still stands in the morning. Setting up your tent before you go on vacation leaves you lots of room to figure out the best way to start assembling it, and lessens the stress on you, since the time you actually need it will be the second (and familiar!) time you put it up on the campsite.
Most people will tell you the how-tos of camping but as a seasoned camper, I still rely on these two rules I’ve shared since they are the best way to eliminate stress from the tent camping vacation. As you get older and look forward to more peace and quiet which nature provides, allowing yourself enough time to set up camp is a godsend to your sanity as well as those who came with you.
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