Senior Paas and the Great Outdoors

[bigjim]

I kind of assumed something like that was the case Pieere but it didn't much matter to me if you lived in a tent full time.

[JohnM]

On 9/14/2017 at 10:49 AM, Devilishjim said:

Find one that likes to shovel so you can go gold prospecting 

...you mean a gold digger??😉

[packnrat]

heck even i still do some tent camping. last time it was up Oregon way rode my bike up there to watch the eclipse.

[packnrat]

i still have a tent for use on motorbike trip. heck even the jeep has a tent i can stand up in. (bought the smallest one i could stand up in.. back problems here). but my knees are saying stop this crawling around stuff.

[sandsys]

2 hours ago, packnrat said:

my knees are saying stop this crawling around stuff.

I thought having a cot in the tent would help. Nope. Way too close to the ground for my knees to not complain.

Linda

[noteven]

I do a bit of moto tent camping. Cots are ok in warm nights. If it gets cool or cold out you fweeze.

A 4” thick Thermarest mattress is comfy. 

A Thermarest on a cot is purty comfy.

[packnrat]

you must pull a trailer to have a cot along for the ride.

for me motorbike camping = min on everything. including weight. now if i could just find a way to dump this unwanted 60 pounds, it would help much more than fuel millage.

my moto tent can even be set up on the bike. to grab a short nights sleep. very light weight sleeping bag. but yes a self inflating mattress.

i even searched high and low for light weight stool and table. cooking is done at the fire ring. or set up the tiny stove on a bolder, (no bending over).

and yes when i could ride a pedal bike i was a weight weeny. i still have my mt bike a full sprung (and not a judy in sight) under 20 pounds.

[sandsys]

12 hours ago, packnrat said:

i even searched high and low for light weight stool and table. cooking is done at the fire ring. or set up the tiny stove on a bolder, (no bending over).

We have an aluminum roll-up-to-fit-in-a-bag table we bought at REI. I would not consider it backpacking equipment but it might work for a motorcycle trip.

I just checked rei.com and they have lots of tables including some very light weight that might even work for backpacking.

Linda

[packnrat]

already have bought for this, both table and chair are tripods in design. small light easy to pack. table top is cloth, (with built in cup holder). so no real heat usage there. but add in a small plywood top and good to go.

but for the bike i try to go sparse, as the stuff/weight adds up fast. water takes up the bulk of carry weight. one bike holds six gallons of fuel, so good to go there. the other seven gallons. both get a good 50 mpg each. but if needed it is easy to add in a spare fuel carry.

[sandsys]

35 minutes ago, packnrat said:

already have bought for this, both table and chair are tripods in design. small light easy to pack. 

Ah, it was not clear to me that you had already done this.

Linda

[packnrat]

never hurts to know more. even found out about a product call table in a book. or something like that but the legs/base fold up in what looks like a book. think origami.