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Four Tips to Tent Camping
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Here are four tips to help you have an enjoyable tent camping experience:
1. Use the best tent you can afford. The quality and functionality of camping equipment has increased dramatically during recent years. If you have and know how to use good equipment there is no reason you should be cold, soaked, or uncomfortable.
2. Inspect your gear before leaving home. It is frustrating if you arrive at camp and then discover you've lost a tent pole.
3. Practice with your equipment in you backyard, or at a campground that is close to your home. There is a learning curve with camping gear. It can be frustrating to arrive at a camp, 400 miles from home, with rain falling, and you not knowing how to set up your tent.
4. Make reservations or arrive early. Many of our nation's campgrounds fill up on summer weekends, and on weekdays associated with holidays. Some public campgrounds have sites that are only available on a first come basis. If you can't make reservations, but can arrive early in the day on say a Thursday or Friday, you can usually find a spot for the weekend. By mid-afternoon on the Friday all sites may be full. All state and federal campgrounds have to have a certain percentage number of sites available as first-come-first served.
Here are four tips to help you have an enjoyable tent camping experience:
1. Use the best tent you can afford. The quality and functionality of camping equipment has increased dramatically during recent years. If you have and know how to use good equipment there is no reason you should be cold, soaked, or uncomfortable.
2. Inspect your gear before leaving home. It is frustrating if you arrive at camp and then discover you've lost a tent pole.
3. Practice with your equipment in you backyard, or at a campground that is close to your home. There is a learning curve with camping gear. It can be frustrating to arrive at a camp, 400 miles from home, with rain falling, and you not knowing how to set up your tent.
4. Make reservations or arrive early. Many of our nation's campgrounds fill up on summer weekends, and on weekdays associated with holidays. Some public campgrounds have sites that are only available on a first come basis. If you can't make reservations, but can arrive early in the day on say a Thursday or Friday, you can usually find a spot for the weekend. By mid-afternoon on the Friday all sites may be full. All state and federal campgrounds have to have a certain percentage number of sites available as first-come-first served.
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