Portable Propane Fire Pit for Fire Ban Season
The reason propane fire pits sell out in July is not that anybody prefers them to a wood fire. It …
Cot or Air Mattress: Which Sleeps Warmer
Cot or air mattress is the question that decides how the rest of a car camping sleep system gets built, …
Camping Stool: When a Full Chair Is Too Much
Not every seat at camp needs a backrest. Cooking at a two burner stove, lacing boots, sitting at a low …
Camping Toilet: Bucket, Cassette or Composting
Most people start shopping for a camping toilet after one specific weekend. Either the campground vault toilet was a long …
Camping Cookware Set: Nesting Without the Rattle
Camp cookware fails in two directions. Either you bring the pans from the kitchen at home, discover that nothing nests …
Family Camping Tent: Room, Rain and Setup Time
A family tent gets judged on three nights a year and lives in a garage for the other three hundred …
Portable AC for a Tent: What Actually Cools
Anyone who has tried to sleep in a tent in July already knows the problem. The sun hits the fly …
Camping Cot With Mattress: Two Layers or One
People who buy a cot and sleep badly on it almost always made the same mistake, they treated the deck …
Camping Chair With Canopy: Shade You Carry
Some campsites come with a tree over the pad and some come with a gravel rectangle in full sun. On …
Camp Shower With Hot Water: Propane or Electric
Hot water at a campsite comes from one of two places: a propane burner heating water as it flows, or …
Camp Stove for Big Groups: Three Burners Up
Cooking for four at a campsite is a meal. Cooking for ten is logistics. The stove that handled your family …
Eight Person Tent: What Eight Really Sleeps
An eight person tent almost never sleeps eight people. It sleeps five or six comfortably, four luxuriously, or eight in …