Tents/shelters and making the best of bad weather

Submitted: Saturday, Mar 01, 2008 at 17:01
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Most of my camping time is spent in the Vic High Country – usually gold prospecting although sometimes just for pleasure. The pleasure times are normally with one or two other vehicles and usually see me moving on each day; my swag is ideal for this type of camping.

It’s the gold prospecting trips, when I can be out for quite long stretches which I’m trying to make more comfortable. When the weather is poor it would be nice to have somewhere to sit (live, really) which did not have a dirt floor and had protection from the wind and rain on all four sides. Getting a caravan or trailer into the places I go is out of the question so I thought I might give some of the larger tents a look. To that end I spent an hour in a major camping store (remind me to go midweek in future when the “little darlings” are in school!). Not too impressed with any of the tents; some were so large it would take 4 people to erect them, most didn’t look as if they would still be standing after a decent storm and the ones which seemed to suit my requirements didn’t have a large enough “living area” to put the “kitchen” and a couple of chairs in.

Unless anyone has a recommendation I think I’ll stick with the swag (or my dome tent) and a tarp shelter at least I can build a fire at the leeward side of the tarp shelter and stay, mainly, dry and warm.

Think I must be getting a bit soft in my old age :)

Mike Harding
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