Behold the latest expedition innovation!
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I was about to, and was informed that "one of us will live there."Tugela said:
So I instructed my team to reevaluate the strategy, and the executive summary suggested opting for a good-looking Disco for a price of a Maggiolina. It occurred to me that a Disco might even move under its own power, unlike the RTT. And then it occurred to me that I can make a good-looking Disco out of a beater by spending half as much for a paint job. And then the budget ax fell, and therefore no new jobs were created.
When I'm out of my job, I'll establish nonprofits with names like "RTT for Humanity" and "Occupy Maggiolina."
nosivad_bor said:
Good...then I want to see one on your truck at the Pgh Vintage Grand Prix this summer.
Tents are for pussies. I sleep on a cot beside a fire. I set up camp in one minute. I pack up camp in one minute. Do it a few times and you will quit all the tent shit.
Until it rains.mulisha00 said:
Or the mosquito's are so bad it sounds like a tornado alarm in your ear and you can't sleep.
Or you don't feel like backpacking in a cot.
nosivad_bor said:
This says it best. It's completely useless, and would not work except in some very very specific and unrealistic circumstances...
But it's that exact scenario when you do find the right set of trees, with easy to attach anchors, on hilly, rocky swamp land, with bears, snakes, vicious pumas in deep cravasses, plus a lion and alligator or two that want to eat you... so you can have a massive orgy in relative safety and comfort in your Tensile... that would make owning one almost worthwhile.
fishEH said:
Yeah. Bugs make for wretched open-air sleep. I used to camp on a cot next to the fire when I lived in Zimbabwe. Then lions came within 80' on one trip in a game park and ever since I've been a big fan of tents when traveling in large carnivore country. My dad was unshaken after that episode and didn't become a tent convert until the fire died down one night and he woke up to find a hyena sniffing his feet.
When it's safe and comfortable sleeping outside can be really enjoyable. But when you need a tent there is no substitute.
But when you need a tent, you don't necessarily need a tentsile or whatever these contraptions are called.
Nancy.mulisha00 said:
If I sleep, I do so standing up.
In the rain.
Holding my truck over my head so the tires don't get muddy.
If I'm really tired, I'll lay on the roof rack, right on the steel bars.
Because I'm such a hard-ass, that steel feels like a featherbed to me.
We've had one of these for years and it would serve about the same purpose with a cover (and not so high off the ground!).
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I have one of these that I use in warmer weather:
I hook one end a shackle on my front bumper, and the other end to a tree with a ratchet strap. Hook the rain fly with a bungee cord to my roof rail, and the same tree. Comfy as hell.
I hook one end a shackle on my front bumper, and the other end to a tree with a ratchet strap. Hook the rain fly with a bungee cord to my roof rail, and the same tree. Comfy as hell.
No beard. Too big of a pussy to grow one...
Just grab a cot and sleep outside next time you get the chance. If it rains grab a tarp and tie it between two trees with a rope. I always have a nice fire and don't have a problem with bugs.
Tugela knows what I'm talking about. I'm sure you sleep outside when the opportunity presents itself.
You guys are thinking I'm claiming to be some badass that has pony tails and walks around bare-footed eating squirrel turds and berries. I'm not acting hard and sleeping on roof racks. I'm sleeping beside a fire warm as hell looking up at the sky. Being prepared is one thing but having a 14 man tent with three rooms and a gazebo and three hours of set up is dumb. I'd rather be enjoying what ever I went to the outdoors for.
Just grab a cot and sleep outside next time you get the chance. If it rains grab a tarp and tie it between two trees with a rope. I always have a nice fire and don't have a problem with bugs.
Tugela knows what I'm talking about. I'm sure you sleep outside when the opportunity presents itself.
You guys are thinking I'm claiming to be some badass that has pony tails and walks around bare-footed eating squirrel turds and berries. I'm not acting hard and sleeping on roof racks. I'm sleeping beside a fire warm as hell looking up at the sky. Being prepared is one thing but having a 14 man tent with three rooms and a gazebo and three hours of set up is dumb. I'd rather be enjoying what ever I went to the outdoors for.