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Subject Topic: Camping on Hardstanding (gravel)
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25/11/2009 at 8:48pm
 Location: East Kent
 Outfit: Cabanons x 2. Norfolk Lake
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Yes...Trellyn in Pembrokeshire, has two hardstanding and 4 grass

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28/11/2009 at 1:00am
 Location: East Ull
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We're booked onto all weather pitch at Fforest Fields next summer.  Having had to cancel our main holiday in the Lakes this summer due to a very wet site, I am really looking forward to it and relieved that there is little chance of us having to cancel next year!

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29/11/2009 at 6:47am
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never been on a hardstanding pitch so i wonder if those that have can answer me a question... does the gravel/shingle move under the tent and if so doesn't or couldn't that movement damage the groundsheet if a sig tent?

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29/11/2009 at 11:29am
 Location: East Kent
 Outfit: Cabanons x 2. Norfolk Lake
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I`ve never experienced the ground moving under my tent1717.

Seriously...no..the ones I`ve stayed on are a thin layer packed down over a membrane.Therefore, rock pegs are essential

One particularly wet week, when we broke camp the ground was so sodden under the membrane it was a bit like walking on jelly...but we hadn`t noticed this in the tent...try and imagine what that would have been like if it was a grass pitch17



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29/11/2009 at 12:39pm
 Location: Bolton-upon-Dearne
 Outfit: Vango Icarus 500
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Are rock pegs expensive?

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29/11/2009 at 3:25pm
 Location: East Kent
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We got ours from the local camping shop and got loads with slightly damaged plastic thrown in free. I don`t think they`re too pricey.

Being lazy, we use them all the time with our delta pegs for the guys.......got sick of bending cheaper ones on hidden rocks.....false economy



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29/11/2009 at 8:37pm
 Location: LANCASHIRE
 Outfit: Outwell Bearlake 6 & Baltic Sea L
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Its hard to find sites with perfect lush grass - so when they do come along then its a blessing - as for me - I wont pitch again on any surface that looks like it could turn into mud - its just NOT worth it - ruins you tent - your gear - your gorundsheets - the lot - better to pirch on an artifficial surface if you cant finf a site so well managed that they avoid the dead grass sittuation.

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30/11/2009 at 9:40pm
 Location: Glasgow
 Outfit: Elddis Avante 454
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"I was merely pointing out that in our own experience of staying on a site (late season) last year, we had to throw a decent tent away because of the amount of mud caked all over the ground sheet, It could have been avoided if the site had all weather pitches, "

So am I wrong to simply use the garden hose at home to remove all, (well most of ) the mud off my tent and then let it dry?  Does a bit of mud really matter?



30/11/2009 at 11:12pm
 Location: Essex
 Outfit: Bell Esvo Bedouin 280 Flagstaff 4ATC
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The problem is.... our garden is not big enough to hose down let alone dry out our old tent and I really didn't want to bring the tent indoors as it was literally dripping with mud (beige carpet in the living room!!!) The only option that we had was to hang the tent in the shed and hope for the best i.e the mud to dry and be shaken off...... BUT because of the cold, damp weather (November) the tent remained wet and started to smell....

Believe me if there was a way to save the tent we would have done it but alas the mildew took hold and we had to "let it go"......

I can't help thinking that if the tent was pitched on an AWP then we might still have it now

So in answer to your question.... NO a little bit of DRY mud does not matter as it will flake off of a SIG but when it is of quagmire consistency then it is a tent killer!!!!!


01/12/2009 at 8:30pm
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The consensus seems to be pro-hard(er) pitches but I can't see the appeal.  Lying in my sleeping bag on my Thermarest on SIG on gravel sounds unpleasant.  But seeing the swell of opinion here - am I missing something? Anyone else slept on such pitches on a Self-inflater rather than a fat air bed or similar.

I've yet to encounter such pitches but worry they'll become more common?

 



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02/12/2009 at 7:33pm
 Location: yorkshire
 Outfit: Outwell Norfolk Lake
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Must admit I am slightly less concerned now, than when I asked the question at the start......

 

DC




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