Kilts and camping, feedback and tips

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Truck camping is my route - away from developed sites ( no pesky RV generators a roaring, bugs, trash or educated ice chest predators ). Bought all the stuff for back packing only to find out my knees won't take the extra weight.

Sleep in shelled and carpeted truck bed on a 4" Thermarest mattress in my bag. Cook on my own folding table with a "white gas" Coleman 2 burner stove and lantern ( both over 40 years old and rebuilt a couple times by me). I have a 10 x 16 tarp awning that I use unless the site is exposed to the high winds that we get here. If fishing, I bring my little aluminum boat and tie up at my campsite or very close - we know when the fish bite - crack of dawn.

Camping is where Talisker really shines.

I'm with you. Especially the bit about the knees, or lack thereof.

I've an '85 FJ60 LandCruiser mostly set up for expedition-type travel rather than rock-crawling or racking. I sleep in the back, have a 12' x 20' fly I set my kitchen up in and also back the 'Cruiser under so if it's raining I don't have to get wet getting to coffee and breakfast. All the rest you mention follows save that I sold my boat a while back (big mistake).

I've done a fair bit of hiking about in kilts and found them to be vastly superior to pants. I've not yet camped kilted as I'm somewhat new to the kilt. This summer, though. . . I've a very inexpensive UT Pakistani wool kilt in Scottish National that will do double duty with my UT canvas kilt.

Slàinte mhath