I have noticed in the C&CC book that a number of pitches are sloped. Is this just for caravans or tent pitches also.
Plus if you do have a slope how do you pitch your tent? With bedrooms sloping down (though difficult with bedrooms either end) And what about tables etc....
Depends on the severity of the slope. It is possible to camp with a tent on a slope and if we ever found ourselves with no option but to pitch on a slope, i would always pitch so that when lying down, my feet are lower than my head. Re tables...you can get camping tables that have adjustable legs so that you can adjust the height of each leg according to the severity of the slope. Hope this helps.
Quote: Originally posted by Surfspud on 28/8/2008
I have noticed in the C&CC book that a number of pitches are sloped. Is this just for caravans or tent pitches also.
On C&CC sites caravans tend to be given fairly level pitches and sloping pitches are used for tents. This causes a lot of contention as caravans can be levelled whereas tents cannot.
We have a tunnel tent with bedrooms either end. This means if we are on a slope and pitch so that we are feet down, the kids at the other end will be head down. Unless I swap their bedroom round which I guess is possible.
As for the table, we do have one with adjustable legs but only two heights so not much help as if we were sloping that much i wthink I would complain.
The C&CC say in their Sites Book whether a site is sloping or not so you can make a decision whether to go to that site or not. Surely that is better than letting people turn up unprepared.
Whe now have a caravan but when we had a tent we often had to pitch on a slope and on one site a 2 way slope. We coped - we made sure we slept with our heads higher than our feet and we levelled the table with the help of some newspapers under the legs. I remember that I kept rolling on OH in the night - he didn't complain!
It drives me completely bonkers. Especially when the fees are the same as for a flat one. Have these people never heard of terracing for heaven's sake. One trip we were on such a slope we had to prop the foot of the air bed up on folded cardboard boxes. I'm not aware that we paid less than those on hardstandings.
Alan
We always sleep with head higher than feet, saves you waking up with an headache, or was it the wine?
We normally carry a small bag of beer mat sized carpet squares and 10mm high wooden blocks as fillers if needed. These are useful if the pitch is uneven as well as sloping.
the site we had at our last site was sloping. Didn't think this was really a problem (have height adjustable table etc) until waking up after our first nights sleep. Went to bed at the top of the bedroom and the entire airbed slid down during the night so we woke up at the bottom of the 'pod'.
Of course, the kids thought that it was hilarious....
Nicholaston Farm in the Gower has to be the most severe slope we have pitched on, we were clambering back up the airbed every hour through the night as we were literally sliding down and off the end (not such a problem on a normal airbed as it is not so high to fall off but we have one of those Queen size raised airbeds that is 20 inches off the floor). Cooking was also a problem, the frying pan wouldnt stay on the stove, I had to hold it over the gas the whole time and also lift the bottom end of the pan to stop the contents of the pan from coming out the bottom. I wouldnt do it again but the view from the tent was stunning so I guess some people put up with the hill to take advantage of the outlook.
Quote: Originally posted by Domino666 on 29/8/2008
guess some people put up with the hill to take advantage of the outlook.
that site look great to me :) You have the same windbreak as us i see. Ours ended up a bit of a mess what with the wind and rain and all the kitchen stuff sliding into the corner. It is folded over at the top to let the water drain out :( We did get the table level though
We are used to the slope at eweleaze. It isn't a campsite just a farm that allows camping for one month a year. Even the fishing beds didn't quite compensate for the slope but luckily i had some foam wedges, for the foot end, specially commissioned from an ebay seller (mentioned in another thread) so we didn't slip too far down.
The combination of wind, rain and slope was hard work but i would't miss it for anything :)
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Topic: Sloping Pitches.
