Kilts and camping, feedback and tips

[GG]

I haven’t camped since my wife and I were engaged – and in less than two weeks we’ll celebrate our golden wedding, so I definitely have no experience. However, when taking the dog out I very often pass along a camping site. On most days I'll be wearing a kilt, and I really couldn’t see any problem wearing it on the other side of the fence as well.

[Panache]

Kilted Camping is great!

I have done it for years

However...

...big Wolf spiders getting quite personal and saying "Hi there Sailor"

...not so much!

sigh

Jamie

[Alan H]

I've backpacked in a cotton/poly camouflage kilt in the Sierra Nevada for years and have essentially zero downsides to report with the exception of mosquitos.

[tundramanq]

Don't seem to have many mosquitos here in New Mexico - where I camp is usually near 8000 ft. altitude.
Spiders and other crawlers - I'll take the kilts because I can feel them coming up my legs where with pants legs rubbing your legs you probably won't, until you get nailed. Easier access to "flick to them off" also.
Great advice on hanging clothes at night!

[Alan H]

I have to say that the word "camping" implies such a monstrous range of activities that it's hard to pin down.

For me, "camping" at its most luxurious is in an 8 x 8 Coleman tent, WAY too heavy to carry for any distance. I sleep on a fancypants air mattress topped with memory foam on the floor of the tent. Cooking and eating is done on a picnic table 10 feet from the tent and the truck is about 30 feet away with a cooler.

i do this about once every other year.

REAL camping for me is 5-8 days on the trail, covering somewhere between 25-50 miles, with everything on my back*in the company of my lass, the Luminous Joan. We cook lightweight food on a one-burner propane-butane stove and sleep on a bare-bones air mattress in a two-person backpacking tent. I carry socks and t-shirts for three days, and rinse stuff out in the lake in-between.

Contrast that to cousin Jen who just spent about $60,000 for a 34-foot motorhome towed by a $55,000 Ford F250 truck. Jen is quite proud to say that she went for "all the options but the icemaker in the freezer" and this includes a clothes washing machine and dryer. She cooks with gas, has a 48-inch flatscreen TV and....beyond my comprehension..... an electric fireplace. She calls this; "camping".

So wear your kilt. Give it to Jen every other day when you get some dust on it. She'll run it through the washing machine for you.

[tundramanq]

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.

[kiltedcontractor]

I have to say that the word "camping" implies such a monstrous range of activities that it's hard to pin down.

For me, "camping" at its most luxurious is in an 8 x 8 Coleman tent, WAY too heavy to carry for any distance. I sleep on a fancypants air mattress topped with memory foam on the floor of the tent. Cooking and eating is done on a picnic table 10 feet from the tent and the truck is about 30 feet away with a cooler.

i do this about once every other year.

REAL camping for me is 5-8 days on the trail, covering somewhere between 25-50 miles, with everything on my back*in the company of my lass, the Luminous Joan. We cook lightweight food on a one-burner propane-butane stove and sleep on a bare-bones air mattress in a two-person backpacking tent. I carry socks and t-shirts for three days, and rinse stuff out in the lake in-between.

Contrast that to cousin Jen who just spent about $60,000 for a 34-foot motorhome towed by a $55,000 Ford F250 truck. Jen is quite proud to say that she went for "all the options but the icemaker in the freezer" and this includes a clothes washing machine and dryer. She cooks with gas, has a 48-inch flatscreen TV and....beyond my comprehension..... an electric fireplace. She calls this; "camping".

So wear your kilt. Give it to Jen every other day when you get some dust on it. She'll run it through the washing machine for you.

Im with Jen. To me camping is a hotel room without a refrigerator. At least there is a full length mirror so that i may check my kilt before leaving. Im not knocking camping, its just not for me.

[Richrail]

My lovely bride and I have been camping in the Sierra Nevada's since we got married almost 30 years ago. We've been going to the same place her family started going when she was 5 years old. We did the tent camping all through the years are kids were growing up. Now we've decide a little luxury would be nice, we purchased a pop-up tent trailer a couple of years ago. It is very nice to have when the summer thunder storms roll in to the area, are base camp is at 8300 ft. and we do day hikes and fishing for brook trout. I do wear the budget kilts for camping, usually by night fall I have changed into jeans for sitting around the campfire.
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Highland Lakes from Hiram Peak 9730ft.
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We even brew beer in camp
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Sunset
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Only picture of me kilted while camping I could find.
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[Alan H]

Rich, I could wrap my head around one of those popups, someday. Alternatively, a teardrop trailer is a possibility for us when the idea of putting 50 pounds on my back for 5 days stops working. Hopefully, that's quite a few years in the future..

[MishawakaKilt]

I have to say that the word "camping" implies such a monstrous range of activities that it's hard to pin down.

For me, "camping" at its most luxurious is in an 8 x 8 Coleman tent, WAY too heavy to carry for any distance. I sleep on a fancypants air mattress topped with memory foam on the floor of the tent. Cooking and eating is done on a picnic table 10 feet from the tent and the truck is about 30 feet away with a cooler.

i do this about once every other year.

REAL camping for me is 5-8 days on the trail, covering somewhere between 25-50 miles, with everything on my back*in the company of my lass, the Luminous Joan. We cook lightweight food on a one-burner propane-butane stove and sleep on a bare-bones air mattress in a two-person backpacking tent. I carry socks and t-shirts for three days, and rinse stuff out in the lake in-between.

Contrast that to cousin Jen who just spent about $60,000 for a 34-foot motorhome towed by a $55,000 Ford F250 truck. Jen is quite proud to say that she went for "all the options but the icemaker in the freezer" and this includes a clothes washing machine and dryer. She cooks with gas, has a 48-inch flatscreen TV and....beyond my comprehension..... an electric fireplace. She calls this; "camping".

So wear your kilt. Give it to Jen every other day when you get some dust on it. She'll run it through the washing machine for you.

Know what you mean when it comes to the vast spectrum of camping. Never have understood the rv camping pay money for a campsite, after paying tons of money for rv to sit in AC cooled rv and watch tv. The campfire and visiting non biting critters are the best entertainment on earth.

This is how we camp: tent with air matress, food cooked in or on castiron, 3X a day. Canopy with C9 lights strung on it. An occasional game of ladder golf, cards, sitting around watching the fire. If we are traveling, we camp in our astro van. With the seats out we can blow up a airmatress, made a shelf that holds our gear above the foot of our bed, mylar coated bubble insulation cut to fit the windows provides privacy, keeps van cooler in hot sun, warmer on cool nights. add a string of led lights, a small heater and you got just about everything you need. Still verry basic compaired to if you Google astro camping to see what others have done to these vans.

James