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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2014 01:25:51 No.433223 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>433254 >>433395 >>434066 >>434107 >>434160

Howdy /out/

I've been getting into camping A LOT lately. Nothing too serious yet, but I've fallen in love with being outside and roughing it.

That being said, I'm constantly on the lookout for any advice or tips from seasoned campers.

So...I guess this is a thread where you can post any nuggets of wisdom for fellow campers...best things to bring along, how to not get eaten by a bear, what to look for when you're outside...go!

I think my best tip is to bring along a box of Ziploc bags...great thing to have around.

pic semi-related, watering hole that I grew up near

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2014 01:54:20 No.433232 Report

Quoted By: >>433251

Zipties and unscented drawstring trashbags.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2014 04:03:50 No.433251 Report

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>>433232

Never even thought about zipties...makes perfect sense though

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2014 04:11:13 No.433254 Report

Quoted By: >>434092

>>433223
honestly the best advice on something to bring is something to do. a book, paddle ball, carving set whatever it might be.

justin beiber

justin beiber Thu 18 Dec 2014 04:20:01 No.433255 Report

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hello. that's cool, just visited 4chan 4 the 1st tyme. seems legit. nice. -billy mays

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2014 06:08:33 No.433277 Report

Quoted By: >>434099

Jacob's well, are you a texas bro?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2014 16:07:05 No.433395 Report

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>>433223
>carry less gear
>carry more food
>go farther
>go longer
enjoy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 06:41:16 No.434061 Report

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I always bring mothballs with me and four baggies.
At night, I load each baggie with the mothballs--put two on my engine block and one near each front tire. I do this becuase once out in the middle of nowhere in southern Utah, I had a large packrat bit through two of my sparkplug cables during the night. Haven't had the problem again since I started using the mothballs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 06:51:45 No.434063 Report

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Type a checklist on your computer.
One for summer and one for winter (assuming you camp in winter).
I find this very useful, as you will almost certainly wind up forgetting something--having these checklists greatest reduces the risk of leaving something at home. I even include clothes on my lists.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 07:01:00 No.434066 Report

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>>433223
>don't spend a ton on new gear until you've tried a less expensive version and know what you do and don't like about it
>camp in some state park campgrounds when you're starting out, we have some nice ones down here
>camp there because you can car camp and carry lots of stuff
>pare down your list for what you carry when you decide you don't need/won't use something often enough to justify having it with you
>do not pare off your first aid kit and lots of extra water
>camp with someone who knows how to do it a few times, they'll show you more in a weekend than the internet can teach you in a month of Sundays
>most people who have youtube channels about innawoodsing are idiots, just like most of 4chan
>take everything you see on the internet with a grain of salt

and pick one of these three:
>fuck carrying an axe, it's easier to baton most of the time
>fuck batoning, you're man enough to tote an axe and it's a better tool for the job
>make up your own goddam mind

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 08:06:04 No.434092 Report

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>>433254
>honestly the best advice on something to bring is something to do
I have camped many, many times and never once bothered to bring something "to do". The wilderness itself has been sufficient for me. I do a lot of star gazing at night. I don't go to the wilderness to do something that I can do at home.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 08:41:08 No.434099 Report

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>>433277

Yep, grew up in Houston but spent my summers in Wimberly. Have you been?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 09:50:28 No.434107 Report

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>>433223
If you navigate long stretches of terrain by map, then buy two waterproof map pouches, a large one for your backpack where you keep all the full sized maps and a small one for the map pocket on your pants.
Make color copies for each daily stretch of your journey and load the small map pouch every morning with your daily map. Add a small quality clip on compass to your small map pouch and keep your full sized compass in your main pouch.

Saves you from fumbling and folding around the big maps in bad weather, wind and rain, you do the navigation by simply pulling out your small pouch and can do the route planning with the big maps comfortably when you made shelter.

Even if you got GPS, keep a full sized compass and a good map on you, and learn how to use it.

This is for multiday hikes, if you are simply going for a day hike, just bring the the small pouch with a color copy and the clip-on compass, saves loads of time.

By the way, this is also a thing I always look fro in good hiking pants, that they have a proper map pocket on the right thigh

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 15:33:12 No.434160 Report

Quoted By: >>434173 >>434176

>>434107
>not carrying cloth or otherwise waterproof maps

get a load of this pleb

>>433223
My only piece of advice is to carry more socks than you think you will need

Thank me later

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 16:18:16 No.434173 Report

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>>434160
>My only piece of advice is to carry more socks than you think you will need
>Thank me later
This is pretty solid advice. Use a foo saver to vacuum the air out of a few bags with a couple pair each. Socks are like water purification supplies...always have three times what you need and maybe bring a little more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 16:38:51 No.434176 Report

Quoted By: >>434186 >>434193

>>434160
Yo homo, cloth maps are pretty uncommon most everywhere, thats why you get a map pouch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 17:33:03 No.434186 Report

Quoted By: >>434188 >>434197

>>434176
Are you mad because you're to poor to afford nice cloth maps. Do you have to wear your sisters hand me down tampons as well?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 17:37:11 No.434188 Report

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>>434186
>confirmed for car camper.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 17:59:43 No.434193 Report

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>>434176

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 18:03:10 No.434194 Report

Quoted By: >>434503

>>434188
Sorry to disappoint but I've done a good bit of the Appalachian Trail.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 18:11:30 No.434197 Report

Quoted By: >>434206

>>434186
>Are you mad because you're to poor to afford nice cloth maps
Other guy is right, its not about being not able to afford them, most of the time they are simply not available in a useful scale, 1:50'000 for hiking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 18:38:37 No.434206 Report

Quoted By: >>434215 >>434268

>>434197

This.

Where the fuck do you even find cloth maps.

Have you cunts never heard of waterproof maps that are sold EVERYWHERE.

This cloth map guy sounds like a real bitch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 19:17:57 No.434215 Report

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>>434206
>This cloth map guy sounds like a real bitch.
I'm not a guy, I'm not a bitch either but yes actual cloth maps are all but extinct as they should be. So with all that said, why are you so upset anon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2014 21:46:12 No.434268 Report

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>>434206
>sold EVERYWHERE
nope

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2014 10:31:20 No.434503 Report

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>>434194
so have a million other people
when will we stop pretending the appalachian trail is an achievement?

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