Your Essential Camping Items?

Cooker of some sort (Gas stove will do fine, but I highly recommend MOD issue hexi cookers, with hexi block fuel and lighter of course. They take up so little room its awesome)
Food (Again, MOD ration packs...menu F mmm...)
 
ScottC said:
I'm off 'camping' for 3 days next week this is what I'll be taking with me:

Knife
foldup saw
Sharpening stone
A basha (tie it between two trees and sleep beneath)
sleeping bag + mat and bivvi bag
A firesteel
A billy can
Water bottle
Spare clothes
Rations and brew stuff
First aid Kit

Apart from a few luxury gadgets like camera and binos that's all I will be taking, I'll be cooking over a fire so don't need stoves and fuel.

If you're taking a knife and axe make sure you take a well stocked First aid kit and know how to use it, especially with an axe. If you don't know how to treat major axe wounds or how to use an axe properly and safely don't use it at all. I have a couple of axes but wont be taking it as any firewood I need I can just saw it. If you're using stoves why are you taking an axe at all?
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firesteel is a good idea
 
Here are some of the main priorities i think about when i go camping, which is about 6+ times a year.

- Tent, Sleeping bag, Rollmat (none of this pansy airbad crap)
- Food, take plenty of stuff like rice/pasta.
- Water (depends where your going but i take plenty anyway)
- First Aid Kit, Lifesystems Outdoor Pack is fairly comprehensive.
- Knife
- Bowl of some sort for washing up
- Stove (just in case your fire plan doesnt work)
- Phone
- Headtorch and normal torch
- Survival bag

Theres a few others but im tired.

Primarily tell several people where you are going and when they should expect you back.

Rob
 
bin bags are always useful. dont leave your crap around. Or if it gets wet you can fasion some into some waterproofs and shoes
 
Do not, in any circumstance, forget at the very least a roll mat. An air bed might be useful, but damn, I missed not having either last night.
 
Arrrggg I've yet to get away this year, I'm normally the first to get the tent out in the spring :(
Have got the second week of next month booked to stay in a field on a friends farm in somerset with a bunch of mates.
It just can't come quick enough.

Tarps Tarps and more Tarps
You can never have to many Tarps :)

OOOh and a hammock if you got one :D
 
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tim_enchanter said:
Arrrggg I've yet to get away this year, I'm normally the first to get the tent out in the spring :(
Have got the second week of next month booked to stay in a field on a friends farm in somerset with a bunch of mates.
It just can't come quick enough.

Tarps Tarps and more Tarps
You can never have enough Tarps :)
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Amen to that. Thankfully, the several times I've been camping this year the weather has behaved itself, but you can never prepare better than having a couple of tarps.
 
Mikol said:
Do not, in any circumstance, forget at the very least a roll mat. An air bed might be useful, but damn, I missed not having either last night.
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Absolutely. You'll lose far more body heat into the ground than you will into the air.

I'd suggest taking salt & pepper, maybe some curry powder, garlic granules or similar - it really does make food taste a lot nicer than plain packet basics like rice and pasta.
 
tim_enchanter said:
I got mine secondhand 14 years ago but a quick google finds these

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Not cheap but worth every penny :D

:eek: OMG that thing on the bay is UGLY :eek: :eek:
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It wasn't pretty to look at, but comfy inside. Cheers for the links.

Treefrog said:
There's a place in Mychunllaeth (sp?), near the Centre for Alternative Technology, that make and sell them in a range of sizes. They also do Yurts.

Link
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Cheers Treefrog. Not cheap, but they look like quality tipi's. Will look into it. Ta...

p.s. nice to have you back.
 
Mikol said:
Cheers Treefrog. Not cheap, but they look like quality tipi's. Will look into it. Ta...

p.s. nice to have you back.
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Very nice inside too - I've had a wander round their yard. And the canvas they use is everything they say it is.

Thanks :)
 
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