Kilts and camping, feedback and tips

**Tarheel** · 14th May 16, 02:54 AM

The wife and I camp (one week, every year for the last 14 we've been together). I've taken the kilt only once. Note: I didn't have one before 2014.
I will draw attention to the clean laundry issue when the camping is done. Once you have a good system to remove the smoke, grease, body odor and soil from your kilt, camping is just another week in paradise.

Here's our camp site. The truck is a supply station, the tent is sleeping quarters and for privacy, a chair near the fire pit is base station and my boots carry me to these areas and yon for adventures. Enjoy your camping kilted.

**Sinclare** · 14th May 16, 08:40 AM

My wife and I are from Colorado and we go camping/backpacking quite a bit in the Rockies. My Sport Kilts are often my first choice. Here we are when we went camping near the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado.

I actually bought Sport Kilt's great kilt to go backing in this summer. Can't wait!

**Kilted cabin boy** · 14th May 16, 09:06 AM

The outdoor company REI sells a hiking kilt.the only problem is it only comes in a 24 inch length and I need 25.5. Worth checking into.

**Kilted cabin boy** · 14th May 16, 09:08 AM

Hiking in a kilt is fun. Everyone you meet wants to talk to you.

**Chaps** · 14th May 16, 02:39 PM

I enjoy hiking in a kilt. I even bought a hiking kilt by sportkilt (the blue one pictured) but found it too light. My preference is the casual kilt by USA kilts. I think I would only wear the hiking kilt in desert conditions assuming there was no wind.

Welcome aboard,

**jthk** · 14th May 16, 02:42 PM

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** · 17th May 16, 05:03 PM

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** · 17th May 16, 05:07 PM

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.

**grizzbass** · 17th May 16, 05:27 PM

the great outdoors are enjoyed more kilted. Soon I'll be putting up some yellowstone shots from last week.

**MinusHD** · 18th May 16, 08:43 AM

It seems like I should have more opportunities to camp than I do... and what I mean by “camping” is tent camping, cooking over a campfire (or backpacking).
Also, the older I get the less appealing it seems to "rough it" without my modern creature comforts. However I did a two-night camping trip at the Texas Renaissance Festival last November. It was cold, and I was getting sick, but I was kilted the entire time. I wore my Utilikilt around the campsite and even though it was pretty cold and I was getting sick I didn’t have any issues with kilted camping.

Similar to camping is visiting my wife’s mother’s ranch. Yes, there are a couple of old houses on the property with electricity and satellite TV, but no potable water. I’ve been spending a lot of my time there outdoors - walking the property or helping my brother-in-law with some of the ranch work, and I’m in the Utilikilt most of the time. So, no, it’s not camping, but it can feel like it a little bit spending a lot of time outside… and when we get a fire going in the fire pit at night.

In short, I would strongly encourage kilted camping. If there are a lot of insects in your area one might consider the use of an undergarment, at least part of the time, for a little protection.