- Tiny pop-up tent, easier to carry if you can fit inside
- Headlamps
- Sleeping pad or something to separate you from the cold ass ground
- Don't interact with the cute little bear cubs
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Put on some John Waters movies and load the karaoke machine with lots of Cher and Elton John.
good tents are worth the money. The heavy canvas ones are great if not too far from a car, but too heavy to carry far.
For starting a fire, look for bits of birch bark on the ground, it is extremely flammable and is much better tinder than leaves.
Blackout tent so you can sleep late.
I just pack an eye mask
I keep losing my eyemasks. I started lightly tying a bandana around my eyes. It works great! I always have a bandana around. Not sure why they can manage to stay unlost but my eyemasks can't. I look like I'm headed to the firing squad, lol, but I need it to be dark to sleep.
There's also birds being loud and the sun making the inside of your tent too hot to contend with
If you go for a tent, first don't forget the tent pegs, and then it's always comfortable having a tiny mallet to plant them, rather than using a rock or your bare hands.
Find a -soft, dry- spot for the tent. And pound the pegs in first, then the rest of the tent goes up more easily.
Oh ... and if it's -really- cold out, put a handwarmer, or two, in the toe of the sleeping bag. (Good to well-below zero F)
Depends on the tent. Some stakes first some last. Dome tents stakes last, most everything else first
flat is a lot more important than soft
If the ground is super fucked and you're car camping, an impact and some long ass lags also works a treat.
You can also take off your shoe and use that
We had a roofing hammer. Half hammer, half handaxe
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Air mattress so you don't regret
Bring a battery powered fan.
The most effective way to start a fire, for me, is to use fire-starting candles that Yankee Candle make.
For my first fire, I gave up caring about whether I can rough it and will use a starter log. It is so hard to get that first fire to really catch and not need constant tending. The rest of my fires I practice doing it the hard way after there's a fresh bed of coals and half burnt wood from the previous day. Much easier to build up hot coals after that.
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If it's really rainy protect your fire by having two people hold a plane up.
No matter what, don't go in the winter.
As someone who hates the cold with a passion, there's nothing worse than waking up cold in the morning because you either didn't have on enough to keep you warm during a cold winter night in a sleeping bag or had on too much and wake up cold from sweating throughout the night.
Winter campouts are the only camps I absolutely do not miss at all from my time at scouts. The cold mornings are enough for me to not suggest it, despite it not actually being that bad after you've warmed up.
Though, on a more serious note, one of the things I do remember being taught but never followed through with for various reasons is to put your clothes for the next day under your sleeping bag so that way the next day they should be warm or at least warmer so you aren't putting on freezing cold clothes. Especially good for things like jeans because there's nothing worse than putting on jeans with frigid cold metal buttons if your hands are already trembling a little from the cold winter morning in general.
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