I'm going camping in a hurricane.
Tomorrow until Monday in New Hampshire. Technically it could miss us, but still. I’m preparing to get soaked.
Any camping-in-the-rain tips anyone wants to share? Or at the very least, any favorite drinking games/alcoholic drinks that make your camping experience more fun?
We’ve got fireworks, slightly legal drugs, and 11 people. And a shitload of tarps.
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Bring lots and lots of tarps and rope. You can get them for super cheap at Dick’s. Make sure the tarp has metal grommets on the corners as most do. You should be able to tie one end of rope to the grommet and the other end to something heavy and toss it over a tree branch to tie it up and put a roof over your campsite. Just make sure you’ve got a decent tent pole or sorts or eventually the weight of the water collected in there will rip it down.
Oh, and psychedelic mushrooms. Can’t forget the psychedelic mushrooms.
the hurricane is supposed to make its way up to new hampshire?
Tarps for sure. Put one under the tent too.
That’s gonna be fucking awesome, Heidi.
Substance abuse and tarps were really the only two things I ever needed.
i never went camping in my life.
If it’s going to be super windy, avoid using the grommets, they may tear out of the tarp and ruin it. Instead, get a rock, perhaps half fist sized, fold it into the corner of your tarp (or if you can, find one that has little pockets at the corner) and tie the rope around the tarp leading to the rock, that way all the weight is distributed to the whole of the tarp leading to the rope, rather than what’s pinched under the grommet.
Also, bring a shovel and dig channels away from your tents and around the area under your tarp, you should be able to judge good locations based on the lay of your campsite.
And LSD.
And a 3 person slingshot.
Paris said:Put one under the tent too.
This is huge.
ALSO. Something to look for in Dick’s or a similar sporting good store with camping stuff: seam sealant. Most tents need their seems regularly re-sealed or they’ll start to leak. Even more so, sometimes just the material they’re made out of, if not of the highest quality, will drip when saturated. So you can get these cans of what is, essentially, spray-on plastic. You spray it over the seams when you first pitch your tent and it dries and creates a moisture barrier. Every time I go camping, I usually do another quick coat along the seams and then a general, thin spray all over the top of the tent for good measure.
Yeah, this last thing John said.
We went camping 3 years ago and it rained….and our tent leaked.
We went camping last year and it rained….and our tent leaked.
Neither tent was a piece of crap, and both times we had on the “rain guards”, so that leads me to believe that most do need the additional reinforcement of which John speaks.
I’ll post pics of tarpville! The heavy rain is only supposed to hit MA, but I have a feeling we’ll probably feel the remnants of it since NH is only like an hour from MA. The last time this happened we made a homemade slip n’ slide into the river since we were already soaked.
PS We’re getting the ingredients and drinking hurricanes, for sure.
I only go camping during tornado season and have been graced with a severe tornado warning every single time.
Hope you have plenty of popcorn and pills to see you through. And hopefully some pit toilets, just in case you need an underground shelter. Enjoy it!
bah, it still will not be as wet as Glastonbury ’95.
Hurricanes are for pansies it is when the e coli starts kicking that you know you have been camping.
This discussion almost makes me miss boy scouts, and camping during a blizzard, where there was already 2 feet of snow on the ground.
Almost.
christina said:i never went camping in my life.
Fuuuck. So how about I return the Phillies game favor by taking you camping, eh?
Christina doesn’t care about the earth.