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Colour coordination is a pretty low prority here as well. I like kit that does what I want and performs the way I need as well as preferably being space efficient (and dirt cheap.).I've got kit that's 25 years old that can out perform any of the modern stuff (my Hago camp kitchen for example), kit that I picked up in a jumble sale for pennies (my cotton canvas  pyramid tent) and yes, I've got two red and blue airbeds that I bought 15 years ago and which are still going strong.

I do have quite a few sleeping bags though. They all have different strengths...tent or trailer tent bags, 2 or 3 season and/or compressable to a very small volume. Your sleeping bag is the most important bit of kit after your tent after all and it's worth spending time and if necessary a few pennies to get one that suits any specific needs you may have. That's not snobbery, that's common sense. The bag that my DS is going to carry up a hill or two this Wednesday on his Duke of Edinburgh expedition really can't be the same one he uses on a four week holiday in the trailer tent in France after all.

Quote: Originally posted by clunty on 13/6/2011

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Quote: And of course your not horrid to your kids, you take them camping and create loads of good childhood memories for them.

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Well said, and something that is so often overlooked

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