Put out a campfire by drowning it with water, stirring the ash and embers with a shovel, drowning it a second time, then feeling the whole bed with the back of your hand. It is not…
Camping and RV Guides for Beginners
Camping isn't difficult. It's just full of small things nobody mentions until you've already got one wrong. Where the water goes when it rains at two in the morning. Why the cold wakes you from underneath rather than around you. What a booking page doesn't tell you about the site you just paid for. This site is for the stage before you know what you don't know. Pick a topic above and we'll get you sorted, so the only thing you remember about your first trip is the good part.
A campfire is three sizes of wood stacked in the right order. Put a loose handful of tinder in the center of the ring, build pencil-thin kindling around it in a teepee or log cabin, then…
Most camping food hacks you find online were clearly written by someone who has never scraped burned rice off a pot in the dark. This list is different. It comes from a running note on my…
Let’s name the real worry, because almost nobody says it out loud: camping at night is the part that makes new campers nervous. The daytime is easy. Hiking, snacks, hammock, great. Then the sun drops, the…
I found out my awning was done at a rest stop outside Amarillo, when I walked around the rig and saw eight feet of vinyl waving at traffic like a checkered flag. If you’re in the…
Somewhere around 2 a.m. on a June trip, my buddy’s bargain tent stopped being waterproof and started being a lawn sprinkler. Fine mist, everywhere. The zipper was fine. The seams were fine. The tent fabric itself had simply…
Here’s the short version of how to keep mice out of your camper: seal every gap wider than a pencil, strip out anything a mouse could eat or nest in, and run a couple of traps as…
If you’re searching for how to tie basic knots for camping, you don’t want an encyclopedia — you want a short list that covers real camp jobs, taught in plain steps. Here it is: six knots,…
Let’s clear the confusion first: tent ropes and guy lines are the same thing. Guyline, guy rope, guy line, tent rope — four names, one small cord, and one purpose: pulling fabric taut against an anchor.…
If you’re looking up types of camping, you’re really asking one question: which version of this hobby is mine? Fair question — because “camping” covers everything from a feather bed in a canvas palace to a…