When Camping: Tent or Camper???

**magnus392** · 12-21-2004, 07:18 PM

And why do you camp like that?

**mbadboyz** · 12-21-2004, 07:25 PM

If I had a camper, I'd take it to camp with but until I buy one I have to settle with the tent! I have 2 cots that I use inside the tent that I bought from Bass Pro Shops and the wife and I love them. I have trouble with sleping on the ground because I wake up all stiff. And when its cold I sleep in the mini van with a HF ceramic heater on. I dont have a choice when its cold to have to settle for the van because I love to deer hunt. Speaking of hunting....I am going to the north georgia mtns. on January 7-10. Cant wait!

**magnus392** · 12-21-2004, 07:29 PM

That is cool, I like to camp in tents...jsut seems like much more a a get away.

Flinter · 12-21-2004, 07:38 PM

I generally take a tent or a tarp. Truth be told, I prefer a tarp mainly because I can see outside while I'm laying in my bedroll.

32 years old and still scared of the dark!

lol

When I camp I go really light. A tarp, bag of beans, some jerkey, wool blanket, knife, first aid kit......oh ya, some tea. I like the "getting back to basics" aspect of it.

**Grendeljaeger** · 12-21-2004, 07:48 PM

I'm like Flinter, I like being able to see around me. I'm 48(oops still 47) and I know there is stuff in the dark to be afraid of.

sks_hunter · 12-21-2004, 08:26 PM

It used to be tents and sleeping bags when I went to the northern remote parts of the state hunting and fishing. now I have a 37 foot camper in a remote campground that I keep there year round. No more need for tents, as the camper stays where I used to tent out, right in heaven's back yard. Awesome Brookie and Salmon fishing in every direction... moose, deer, bear, rabbit and even coyote hunting is great within a 5 minute walk. All this plus a 6,000 watt generator keeps the AC cooling me off in the summer, and warm during the 30 below cold spells in late January. I love it.

**Pogo** · 12-22-2004, 07:57 AM

I camp a lot. And, I've thought about getting a camper. But, most of the places I go are far off the road, and would be difficult getting a large camper back there, and if you did get it back there, there is a danger of getting it stuck. Perhaps a small truck camper on the back of my F-350 4x4 would work.

As it is now, I use a 10x18 tent, and a cooking awning, and lots of convenient stuff I take with me. I don't like to rough it too much. I had plenty of that in the Army.

Here is another trip I went on with my grandkids:

It's best to watch the weather report if you are going to camp in a area that is subject to flash flooding.

**75_stingray** · 12-22-2004, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Grendeljaeger

I'm like Flinter, I like being able to see around me. I'm 48 and I know there is stuff in the dark to be afraid of.

LOL, to heck w/that, I wouldn't want to see!!!!

Dang Pogo,
that would spoil a trip for sure.

**magnus392** · 12-22-2004, 07:31 PM

Nice setup you have there Pogo. Sorry bout the flooding, I personally like just a tent sleeping bag and a few things to cook with and on. But when you have family and stuff going with you I can see how having all that stuff is cool too.

Cowdawg · 12-22-2004, 09:44 PM

I have a cowboy bed roll I use most times. I sometimes will use my Colemen tent, and I use my camp trailer once or twice a yr for camping.

I travel to alot and don't like to pay for motels so I stay very often at the fairgrounds or Rodeo grounds wherever I am, the folks at those places don't mind and my dogs, horses and I can get some water and walk around some.