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04/6/2014 at 4:17pm
Location: Lake District
Outfit: 5m Karma Canvas bell tent
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Hello everyone,
Me and the husband are about to buy our first tent for car camping, and are looking at all the other bits we need...but there is so much to choose from that we need some advice! Please help us make this work, we don't have enough spare cash to make mistakes setting up!
As a bit of background, we have a small car and the boot will be filled with dog, and not much storage at home so space is at a premium. We live in the lakes where we will mostly be camping (at fairly basic campsites - no ehu), and we hope to be able to camp from Spring to Autumn, so need decent gear to stay warm in the colder months. Mostly plan 2-4 day jaunts, but the odd week or three thrown in here and there. We don't mind roughing it a bit at all.
I figure the basic things to focus on are shelter, cooking and sleeping, so I have split things into these categories...
Shelter
We are getting a 5m Bell tent from Karma Canvas with a 2 room inner and ZIG as a joint birthday gift from family.
We want to get a porch/tarp for cooking and eating under. We have the option of a second hand large polycotton one (which would match the tent), but if a nylon/poly one would be easier (less bulk, easier to dry I'm guessing) then we would take that? Would they both stand up to bad weather equally?
Cooking/dining
We want a wood powered cooker, and will mostly be boiling water for instant ramen/soup/porridge and drinking tea, but the option of frying the odd egg or heating up some stuffed peppers would be an added bonus - we can't choose between the kelly kettle or solo stove? (or anything else you experienced guys recommend?!
We figure we can pick up a table and chairs from any camping store. We thought if we put a heat proof mat on the table we can also use it to cook on, or is this crazy? Do we need one of the separate kitchen stand things?
We will take all the cooking/eating stuff in a large wicker picnic basket that we already have, as it can double as a low card table and dry food storage area for inside the tent
Sleeping
We have an airbed, and a pvc backed fleece rug to go over it for added warms. We want a double sleeping bag...it has to be wide as I hate feeling trapped in my sleep, and it has to be as warm as possible as hubby cannot stand the cold at night and I fear it would put him off camping all together if I don't get this one right! We have looked at both the Vango Starlight and Aurora Double, are these any good? Any other recommendations? We have about a thousand extra blankets we can add too, I'm something of a blanket hoarder!
We have already got a wind up lamp, rugs for the floor, washing up bowl, and will get a collapsable water carrier.
I'm anticipating that things will be added as we go, but does this seem like we have the basics covered OK to have a reasonably comfortable first few trips? Have I missed anything? Is anything unnecessary? Any recommendations?
Sorry for this super long post, and thank you so much for any help with this, we are so excited about it all, but have no one IRL who knows about camping to ask!
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Luckily we live right in the Lakes already so it's just a quick run up the A roads to get to some great spots. At a real stretch I could even do 2 trips in the morning (and by the time I got back hubby could have the tent up and a brew on). Not ideal, but needs must I suppose - I will get my camping! We would likely get a roof rack at christmas to make it easier, but can't afford it right now!
