41 camping tricks that are borderline genius

Having dryer line around anything that is on fire is about as smart as checking the operation of an angle grinder on your face.

I think the answer we can take away from this is- Screw camping. All the best parts (drinking, cooking, fires) can be accomplished at home where there is a fridge, a real toilet, and beds. And the fire department if need be (you'd be amazed at how large a fire can get when you start hucking pallets on it in rapid succession.)

If God wanted me camping He wouldn't have invented Hotels....

I'm surprised this wasn't recommended yet. Buy a book (I know, a novel idea) called how to e36 m3 in the woods. It's a good read and has some real camping tips in it.

Ian F wrote:

Nathan JansenvanDoorn wrote: Carrying a cooler and bags of ice is a bitch when you're backpacking.

z31maniac wrote: I don't get how buying a few bags of ice on the way out town is more of a hassle than what you two are suggesting.

Like foxtrapper, the link is blocked here at work. If I'm back-packing, I'm not bringing heavy-ass beer. Hell, I'm not likely to bring any liquids other than water. And hiking is the only way I'd want to tent-camp.

Some of you sound like the types that need a U Haul to carry all the crap you want to take camping.

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If you're going to go camping, may as well do it right. My wife has been into this stuff all her life, it's fascinating.

We call this sort of camping "glamping." I couldn't finish the list.

JoeyM wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: Ive seen the egg carton-matchlight trick before. We used matchlight charcoal in a pringles can as a firestarter instead. The cardboard in the pringles can is waxed, so it burns just a little longer, and is also tougher than the egg carton, so it doesnt get crushed as easy when its packed away in a backpack.

drier lint and petroleum jelly are supposed to make a really good kindling/fire starter

Cotton balls and petroleum jelly is probably the default combo. Works great, given careful prep it can even get wet wood started.

All of my camping is done at racetracks, so some of that stuff would be helpful. I'm really not into hiking or anything, so carrying some of the bigger stuff around wouldn't be a problem. I did use the cold stream trick to keep the beer cold once at a stage rally in Helen, GA (back when SCCA was still the sanctioning body). I had an ice chest, but I just wanted to try it since I'd seen it in so many commercials when I was a kid.

Speaking of beer: Corner Worker Track Camping Protip #1: Never buy a tent you cannot set up in the dark after consuming your first four beers.

^I thought the whole point of camping was to drink in the woods around a campfire, instead of my backyard around a fire pit?

my idea of roughing it is a Holiday Inn with bad room service.

Yeah I'm with the roughing it crowd, last year we ran out of propane for 2 hours and had no A/C, we didn't bitch very much at all.

I spent just shy of a year squatting in a condemned house, so berkeley camping.

I'll stick with my internet and microwave and my bed.

Sometimes I feel a little bad for the porters