Kilts and camping, feedback and tips

[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..

[jthk]

Gorgeous photographs there! Some lovely rock formations as well as beautiful scenery. My wife and I are also thinking about such a pop-up trailer but we're a few years away from that ... have a nice summer!

Regards,
Jonathan

[ForresterModern]

couple tips to offer. First, if wearing a synthetic kilt be careful with live wood fires, as any hot ash or spark can burn a small hole in a PV kilt, or cause potentially lifethreatening burns in an acrylic kilt due to meltability and flammability issues. That is why a nice cotton utility kilt makes more sense to me. Wool is actually great as the dense weave sheds rain water and most other stuff you run into in the woods and weeds, and is less likely to snag in things like briers. Second, if you can get a kilt made up for you, (somebody correct me if I get this backwards as I tend to) there is a pleating style called Kingussie where all the pleat edges on each rear flank/half of the kilt aim the same way, with a single "mirror" pleat central in the back. If I remember, a standard Kingussie has the pleat edges aiming forward on both sides, making the pleats really fly with any kind of wind or brisk walking speed, but also tend to snag in brush more. Reverse Kingussie has the pleat edges aiming rearward, making them easier to pull through weeds and brush without snagging up. Keltoi makes a nice Kingussie, although they are not necessarily inexpensive. From the rear they have an unusual but pleasantly symmetric look to them. Best pleated to a stripe.

[NPG]

Going camping this weekend, this thread has me tempted to throw my old "Loud MacLeod" kilt in the pack and take it with me to give it a try.