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Camping Fail
23 Friday May 2014
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23 Friday May 2014
Posted in Camping Humor
Oh dear… been there done that. I remember my soggy camping trip years ago
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We made this mistake at ASSATEAGUE STATE PARK in Maryland one year. We camped on the beach with the winds hammering us off the bay at 25 mph. And we didn’t have the special stakes we needed for sand. It was a nightmare and we ended up staying at a local hole in the wall motel. But we did spend the day on the beach with the wild ponies.
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Of course, it’s best to not camp in the wind. But if you have to and don’t have the right stakes, you can make pretty reliable ones.
For your fly – Find some fairly long sticks, shorter than the length of your forearm, and about the width of your finger. Tie the ends of the fly that you need to stake down to the MIDDLE of these sticks. Bury these tied sticks as far as you can in the sand (dig, girl, dig) so they are lying flat in the sand – not pointing up and down, but flat. They will be as secure as they can be.
You can usually find sticks along the nearest treeline to the beach.
For your tent – To stake down your tent, you do almost the same thing. Use TWO sticks, making an “x”. Tie a rope around the two and bury the sticks flat as deep as you think is reasonable, but leave a good length of cord sticking out of the sand. Now you just have to tie the cord sticking out of the sand (connected on one end to the buried sticks) to the hole or round peg attached to your tent. That will secure your tent.
Again, it’s best to not camp where you tell right off the bat that it’s going to be windy. Think of the effect on the fabric of your tent!
Better to put your tent in a SHELTERED area and bring your chairs, portable fire (Leave No Trace, right??), logs, s’mores, and ukuleles to the shore, enjoy a beautiful night by the beach, then hunker down in peace and quiet for the night.
My DH and I camped on Okracoke Island on the NC Outer Banks and appreciate the joy of spending the weekend camping on the beach under the stars. The designated camping areas were protected from the wind off the ocean, yet within a few steps was the beach, perfect for star-gazing the night away.
By the way,. you DO carry cord with you when you go camping, don’t you?
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;P hahaha!
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We’ve gone camping with Boy Scouts who have forgotten their TENT POLES! It only has to happen once, though, LOL.
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There must be something about Assateague Island. When I was in Scouts, I remember one of my fellow Scouts getting his tent blown away… into a tree!
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