Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 01/7/2011
Having just come back from a parent and child Cub camp I think you'd probably be laughed off the site tbh as tenderfoots if you took either van or Aspen. Every single parent there, including me, took some sort of 2 or 3 berth pup tent. There just wouldn't have been room for even my smallest 4-berth family sized tent on our patrol area once the Stormhavens and day tents for the patrol went up. Actually, come to think of it, there wouldn't have been access for a caravan anyway. You'd have had to have kept it down in the car park
If I were you I'd ring or email the Cub Leader and ask what parents normally bring to stay in.
I was wondering that about my tent as it's the same size as a cravan and awning together, it would probably look as flashy and out of place as a van. I'll find out in a couple of years when my lad is old enough. Seems silly spending money on less comfortable and practical camping gear.
I was wondering that about my tent as it's the same size as a cravan and awning together, it would probably look as flashy and out of place as a van. I'll find out in a couple of years when my lad is old enough. Seems silly spending money on less comfortable and practical camping gear.
Trust me, a decent "pup" tent is just as comfortable as a big leisure tent when you're asleep in it, which is all you ever do in the tent at Scout & Cub camps, And practical? We've got three mountain rated small tents that would stand up in the sort of weather that would shred the average family leisure tent in an hour. And they're considerably more practical when it comes to lugging them half a mile up a track, pitching them in a restricted patrol area and drying them out at the end. Cub and Scout camping isn't at all the same as family leisure camping.
One suggestion though is to buy a decent quality pup tent as a birthday present for your young Cub. Then they can use it as a pup tent when they go camping with you at campsites, and you can use it when you go camping with them to Scouts. (Assuming they're in the big patrol tents with the other Cubs and Scouts.) We bought our lad a Vango Delta 300 for his nineth birthday...he's nearly 15 now and that tent must have been used a dozen times a year easily by him, his dad or I, far more use overall than most of our other tents. So hardly a waste of cash. He's now passed it onto his little sister as we've replaced it with a more lightweight Vango Tempest 200 for his DofE camps...cost me £100, but I'm absolutely certain he'll get full use out of it too. Camping gear that's fit for purpose is never a waste of money.
We too are Scout Family Camping next weekend. It will be our 6th consecutive year. First couple of years was tent, then it was folding camper and this will be our first year with a caravan. At our family camp there is a good mix of units - mainly tents - some far too small. In previous years, when it rained, they all flocked into our awning. And our fridge was very handy for the beer, wine and one lady's medicine.
The tent every time..................caravans are well what can I say. The people who caravan are different from propper campers. Tents are more in touch with the outdoors and less intrusive on the landscape, and they don't annoy anyone on the roads. Watch that famous episode of top gear where they blow them up.
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Quote: Originally posted by BobCat10 on 08/7/2011
The tent every time..................caravans are well what can I say. The people who caravan are different from propper campers. Tents are more in touch with the outdoors and less intrusive on the landscape, and they don't annoy anyone on the roads. Watch that famous episode of top gear where they blow them up.
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Erm ,as if ??
We camp in both units ,As for us being different from 'proper campers' or not being in touch ,we have probably forgot more about tent camping that you have ever know so nice try !!
Quote: Originally posted by BobCat10 on 08/7/2011
The tent every time..................caravans are well what can I say. The people who caravan are different from propper campers. Tents are more in touch with the outdoors and less intrusive on the landscape, and they don't annoy anyone on the roads. Watch that famous episode of top gear where they blow them up.
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And when it's peeing down, blowing a gale & freezing, when you're dashing to the loo or to do the washing up, I'll raise a glass to you from my nice, warm caravan, where I have a nice warm loo, hot running water, washing up done & put away & not once did I get wet.
Most caravanners are not the ones who cause the hold ups on the roads, it's the idiots who overtake, pull in front of you on a hill & then slow down, so you lose any momentum you've built up.
Having done both camping & caravanning, & have the equipment for both, & love both, we choose to caravan because we are a bit more comfortable & the british weather is better suited to it a lot of the time
Excuse me! But i am still a camper but we now have a caravan instead of a tent! I still say to my friends we're goping camping. We still stay on a 'camp' site and cook outside, eat outside etc but when the weather isn't good we can do all those things inside! Dry and warm! Best of both worlds.
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Topic: Do i take the caravan or the tent?
