Camping tips and tricks

Buy truck bed camper.

Buy spare everything. Pots, pans, coffee pot, linens, toilet paper, etc.

Place those things in truck camper.

Buy gooseneck trailer.

Place camper on said trailer.

Take 2 minutes to back under gooseneck.

Load Jeep.

Go wheeling. Sleep in camper. Make coffee in camper. Dump in camper. Change clothes in camper.
Come home, unload Jeep and spend 2 minutes unhooking from truck.

Repeat every 45 days or more as time allows.

I used to keep all my camping gear in one tote that could be loaded on a whim and have fun. Once I started camping with kids, one tote and a simple trip wasn’t so easy, so I bought a camper. Now all that stuff stays in there, and is pretty much always ready to go.
 
Tent camping? Bring an EZ up. Put the EZ up over the tent. If there's any rain it allows getting in and out without water getting in.
Gear goes in a foot locker, sits outside the tent. Under the EZ Up.
Freeze steaks ahead of time, they'll be ready for dinner.
Permethrin your clothes. Especially if backpacking. Wort hevery penny and moment spent.

Seperate slothes for sleeping in, especially when cold. Change at night, so your sweat from teh day won't make you colder.
Put the next day's clothes in the foot of your sleeping bag, or as a liner beside you. Nice and warm the next day.

A roll of the velcro zip ties is about the most useful, universal thing to have around, especially if backpacking.
 
Yikes, I'll have to wait til tonight when I have more time. There's so many variables.
 
So RV/camper stocked with goodies has already been mentioned (that would be my #1 tip too).

#2 is equally important though. Get a "babe" (also commonly referred to as thickums, sweetie, hunny, fat head, dipshit...the list goes on but you get the idea). Babe takes off of work, fuels up tow pig & camper, & loads your entire wardrobe for a weekend getaway. Then babe drives you to the campsite & hooks everything up 😍
 
jeepin' jen said:
#2 is equally important though. Get a "babe" (also commonly referred to as thickums, sweetie, hunny, fat head, dipshit...the list goes on but you get the idea). Babe takes off of work, fuels up tow pig & camper, & loads your entire wardrobe for a weekend getaway. Then babe drives you to the campsite & hooks everything up 😍
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jeepin' jen said:
So RV/camper stocked with goodies has already been mentioned (that would be my #1 tip too).

#2 is equally important though. Get a "babe" (also commonly referred to as thickums, sweetie, hunny, fat head, dipshit...the list goes on but you get the idea). Babe takes off of work, fuels up tow pig & camper, & loads your entire wardrobe for a weekend getaway. Then babe drives you to the campsite & hooks everything up 😍
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How much to rent out said babe? And please never speak of this method to my babe.
 
You fellas are more hard core than me. The more we camp the more pre-bundled fire wood I buy. We are very fair weather campers and don't make it far in to the shoulder seasons and never in the winter. Camp fires are almost always just for S'mores. Once my fire wood supply ran out at the house it's been bundled firewood from there on.

I don't spread some random forest disease and I get to use my axe to make kindling. Win-Win.



As far as the Gooseneck with truck camper and jeep. I really want to make that work with gooseneck/camper/boat. just seems like it would be too long.
 
Tent, sleeping bag, cooler of beer and water, loaf of bread, pack of hot dogs, bottle of mustard, something to start a fire with. Cut a stick to cook the hot dogs on and let the good times roll lol.

I used to tell my old boss man about going camping on the weekends, and the good times that were had. His response was always "As long as I have a mortgage, I'm not sleeping in the damn woods". Lol

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jeepin' jen said:
#2 is equally important though. Get a "babe" (also commonly referred to as thickums, sweetie, hunny, fat head, dipshit...the list goes on but you get the idea). Babe takes off of work, fuels up tow pig & camper, & loads your entire wardrobe for a weekend getaway. Then babe drives you to the campsite & hooks everything up 😍
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I know what you mean, my wife has one of those....:cool:
 
Pop-up.
It stayS loaded. Everything needed to camp is already in it. AND IT STAYS THERE!
Just add clothes, bed linens, and pillows.
Fill the cooler, hook up camper.
Go.
 
BigBody79 said:
You fellas are more hard core than me. The more we camp the more pre-bundled fire wood I buy. We are very fair weather campers and don't make it far in to the shoulder seasons and never in the winter. Camp fires are almost always just for S'mores. Once my fire wood supply ran out at the house it's been bundled firewood from there on.

I don't spread some random forest disease and I get to use my axe to make kindling. Win-Win.



As far as the Gooseneck with truck camper and jeep. I really want to make that work with gooseneck/camper/boat. just seems like it would be too long.
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Part of me thinks a gooseneck with the rear being a boat trailer, would be cool. But that would basically limit you to putting in/out at the ends of your trip.

If you had a regular flatbed, you could easily put a track/winch system on it, to pull the boat trailer on and off. Then you would have freedom to take the boat wherever. And use it without the camper. We have walked through this same plan for loading a popup on a friends trailer.
 
BigBody79 said:
You fellas are more hard core than me. The more we camp the more pre-bundled fire wood I buy. We are very fair weather campers and don't make it far in to the shoulder seasons and never in the winter. Camp fires are almost always just for S'mores. Once my fire wood supply ran out at the house it's been bundled firewood from there on.

I don't spread some random forest disease and I get to use my axe to make kindling. Win-Win.



As far as the Gooseneck with truck camper and jeep. I really want to make that work with gooseneck/camper/boat. just seems like it would be too long.
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There was a guy on here I think that had a double stack trailer to pull behind his rv. Boat trailer on the top and truck on the bottom, you could put a pop up camper up top and boat on the bottom


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Hammock ftw, especially backpacking.

My annual winter trip is coming up,, we are leaving Feb 19th and will backpack 3 days. Looking to hike portions of the Art Loeb Trail. Last year we did Linville Gorge and had a blast, average temp was 30, night time temps were 15-20. Last year my pack came in around 23lbs. New pack this year with some better odds and ends so I don't have a final weight for it yet but it should be fairly the same. We do big breakfasts/big dinners, usually mountain house food. Lunch consists of jerky and trailmix.

I am very tempted to get a one man tent that uses my hiking poles as supports. It could eliminate a lot of weight on my pack and free up a lot of room.
 
This one? It was basically a lightweight four post lift on a trailer.
 

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Saw this today in Charlotte, missed a side shot. Teardrop on a trailer. Saw him later with two small service vans heading out of town.
 

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NCJeeplover said:
Would you happen to have a link to one of these? A generic search led down a long and confusing road. With so many options out there, is there one your familiar with that we know does well?
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Infrared Quartz Heater

We have a "prettier" version of this with some spangly ass paint job and the fake fireplace look. Obviously I purchased it.
 
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