I was just wondering if anyone could send some ideas/pictures of their cooking areas while camping? It’s obviously not a good idea to cook inside a tent but I’d like some advise for when it’s raining and you have to prepare a meal.
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Would you potentially have to take a tarp down in windy weather. Probably being a bit lazy but once I’m set up I don’t want the hassle of taking stuff down and then having to put it up again.
i bought one of those fishing shelters, a bit like the beach shelters but big enough to stand in, and placed it to the side of the doorway with enough room to get in it but protect from any wind/rain, only 3 little poles to put in and a couple of pegs so dead easy and takes up a tiny amount of space when packed
Varies depending which tent I'm taking. For the small ones, I take a tarp and use it in ridgeline set up - quick and easy to lower height and re-peg if a blow comes in. If I'm only on a quick trip, I'll do a marg6 with a full height fishing brolly with zip to ground sides - my cheap one has done more than 15 years but I did put in re-enforced eyelets at the base for the pegs - the originals were weak.
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I too use the ridge line rigging method for putting up a tarp so that it can be taken down with ease.
I attach the tarp to the line using karabiners and Prusik knots. When taking down the tarp, the ridge line, poles and guys can stay up.
The guys and pegs for the other poles can stay in the ground when karabiners are used at the eyelets for attachment of guys; or via guy loops over the eyelets of the tarp over the spikes of the poles to hold down the tarp.
I would never leave a tarp up unattended or overnight unless I can be certain of light wind and very light rain, after I woke up one morning and found one side of the tarp had collapsed due to a pool of water collected during rain at night, and the ground became so soggy that the Delta pegs got pulled up!
I learnt to make sure there is sufficient gradients in the tarp to minimise water accumulation after that incident, however, I don't want to risk a repeat by leaving it up in case of bad weather.
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Previously, I've had the camp kitchen just inside the entrance of the tent, and used the hob with the tent door open, or taken the Cadac burner outside the tent when necessary.
It's not ideal, so I've now got a shelter and a windbreak... It's so much better and leaves more room in the tent too!
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Must have been a relief when you stopped needing to take in laundry to pay the site fees.
An excellent array of set-ups as always.
They're in chronological order, and that one was literally our very first set up.
It's amazing how quickly we learn, once we get the opportunity to have a bloody good nosy at other peoples set up's!
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Topic: Dry cooking areas for camping
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