• Obi@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Depending on your requirements (e.g. are you planning on camping in hardcore places or just regular spots in fair weather), you could get not only the tent but all the rest of the camping gear as well for that price.

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      8 months ago

      You can get a good tent for $50, or a tarp and some rope for $30. You can get all your camping stuff for $1000. Less is more with camping.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        That walmart tent you buy for 50 aint a good tent, and will either leak like a sieve in the rain, or be so unbreathable as to become an unlivable humidity drenched hotbox from your perspiration and body heat.

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              8 months ago

              Camping is not living outdoors permanently. You can choose the dates that you are outside and the place you go, so you can choose the weather too.

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                8 months ago

                Sometimes people go for more than a single day, or you book weeks in advance and have to deal with whatever shit weather you get.

                Weather can also suddenly change over a single day.

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                  8 months ago

                  Especially camping up in the mountains, the weather can change real fast. But I’m not gonna let a little rain stop me, that’s why tents have footprints and rain covers.

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            8 months ago

            I have the 2 person version of that tent. It’s me through down pours and wind. The only thing more expensive tents have is easy of set up and tear down.

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              8 months ago

              I know. This other dude doesn’t. Expensive camping gear is just lighter by a few oz. Just carry less.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      If you’re taking that shitty truck, from early reports, you aren’t going to anywhere hardcore. Maybe the park down the street.