Camping - be prepared...

by Jess

Mike was getting dinner started while I started at the fire. My fingertips were burning from all the climbing we had done that day. He broke my daydreaming, "Jess, will you set up the tent?". I looked towards the sky. Nothing but a plethera of stars, no clouds or even the moon in sight. "Do you see any clouds? Why should we put up the tent when we have this to look at?" He hesitated in arguing with me, but shrugged it off. After dinner, we rolled out the sleeping bags around the fire and fell asleep.

What seemed like minutes later, Mike was nudging me to wake up as rain poured over us. "No cloud in the sky huh?" We both scrambled to the car and got the tent set up, quickly threw our soaked pads in and tried to fall asleep in our comfortable wet sleeping bags and clothes.

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Camping - be prepared...

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Jun 01, 2011
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Never forget the pop up tent
by: Camp Easier

We camp all the time with a pop up tent and like you we learned the hard way, set up the pop up tent before you fall asleep. You never know what the weather will be like so why take the chance since they only take a few minutes to put up. Don't foget to stake the tent down in case of wind.

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