Jessica
I'm interested in a trail riding/camping experience, but the kind I am finding are traditional campsites that have horse trails. I would like to do a camp-along-the-trail kind of thing, not a bed and breakfast with trails, or a park your RV/tent, go riding, come back to your campsite. Anybody done this? Any ideas? I have a group of 4 or 5. Thanks.
Answer
Nearly any hiking trails that go into the wilderness can also be accessed by horseback then also any campsite in the wilderness can also be accessed by horses. The first thing to note though is cleaning up after your horse and providing food for it, as you take care of your poop you have likewise the chore for your horse. Food is an issue also since grazing is not permitted nor are livestock and horses allowed to trample into meadows and such. The US Forest Service does have trail camp sites designated specifically for horses but these are far and few. Contact the rangers offices of the forest you intend to visit for specific details.
Nearly any hiking trails that go into the wilderness can also be accessed by horseback then also any campsite in the wilderness can also be accessed by horses. The first thing to note though is cleaning up after your horse and providing food for it, as you take care of your poop you have likewise the chore for your horse. Food is an issue also since grazing is not permitted nor are livestock and horses allowed to trample into meadows and such. The US Forest Service does have trail camp sites designated specifically for horses but these are far and few. Contact the rangers offices of the forest you intend to visit for specific details.
Camping in 60 deg and rain harder than 5 below and clear?
Andrew
Last winter I was in upstate NY camping and 2 nights it dropped to -5F which seems cold, but surprisingly it was very tolerable since it was such a dry cold not to mention I had a -20 rated bag.
Last week on the other hand I camped again and this time it was 60 and raining heavy. It seemed overall that 60 and rain was much less pleasant to camp in than -5 and clear.
Is it just me or do others see it the same way?
Answer
You got it right.
Waking in the morning to snow stretching over the moors and mountains as far as I can see and lazily reaching out of the bedroom window, that's the front door of a small tent, to get the coffee and breakfast going without even getting up is one life's better treats.
Up and ready on a crisp morning to see the delights along the way to the next pitch for the tent, is a really great time to have.
Keeping everything usable when camping in hot wet Malaysia even outside of monsoon season is a constant hard job.
Five continents of fun just makes the world interesting, dealing well enough with what there is.
Water is hard stuff to keep out, even in $400 super-performance tents sometimes.
The best buy I had was a cheap Coleman Viper, which has stood up to horizontal rain on the Cuillin Ridge on Skye, deep overnight snowfalls on the mountains in the Alps and the Andes, and never once got wet inside apart from the usual condensation problem with small tents.
The bag it comes in is a proper strong PVC dry-bag. I use it as one for river crossings at times.
The Viper isn't too bad for condenstaion. It's double skinned, and it has a long side opening so ventilation arrangements are quite versatile.
Easy to look up on the net but not so easy to find one now.
Ridge and tunnel tents are easy to cover with a waterproof plastic sheet like a groundsheet from a garden or DIY store for a few dollars or just buy a big sheet of polythene as used in the building trade. It comes in rolls like carpet on a big cardboard tube so just get the guy in the building supplies or DIY store to cut off the length you need.
Most bought groundsheets from garden stores already have eyelets but you can add more easily. If you buy one a bit too big you get extra space at the sides of the tent for dry storage,eg a bike or food rations.
Buy plastic eyelets from a camping shop, reinforce the area it's going on with some turned-over cloth or thin leather, punch the eyelets through ( takes around twenty seconds total to fit one) and you've got a cheap cover to peg out over the tent that will outperform a $200 hyped-up proofed rip-stop nylon tarp for keeping water at bay.
I live on a cold ( sometimes warm) wet island. We get rain all through the year.
Handy stuff. No drinking water shortage, easy washing clothes, and lots for a make-shift shower arrangement with a big plastic bag with a load of holes in it or a proper shower head attached and hung from a tree.
Rain fills the rivers, keeps the trout and salmon happy, and grows fresh juicy leaves to eat on countryside plants instead of the tougher ones that dry weather makes.
Take it all as it comes. Rain or shine, we live in wonderland. Have a great time.
EDIT...just thought (an occasional event. Hurts bad at times).
A poem from the Bard, Rabbie Burns...Castle Gordon, last verse
Not much different from parts of the AT on a bad day....err, the 'Appy Trail?
(Sorry about that one) No castles though. Camping barns.
Wildly here, without control,
Nature reigns and rules the whole;
In that sober pensive mood,
Dearest to the feeling soul,
She plants the forest, pours the flood:
Life's poor day I'll musing rave
And find at night a sheltering cave,
Where waters flow and wild woods wave,
By bonnie Castle Gordon.
You got it right.
Waking in the morning to snow stretching over the moors and mountains as far as I can see and lazily reaching out of the bedroom window, that's the front door of a small tent, to get the coffee and breakfast going without even getting up is one life's better treats.
Up and ready on a crisp morning to see the delights along the way to the next pitch for the tent, is a really great time to have.
Keeping everything usable when camping in hot wet Malaysia even outside of monsoon season is a constant hard job.
Five continents of fun just makes the world interesting, dealing well enough with what there is.
Water is hard stuff to keep out, even in $400 super-performance tents sometimes.
The best buy I had was a cheap Coleman Viper, which has stood up to horizontal rain on the Cuillin Ridge on Skye, deep overnight snowfalls on the mountains in the Alps and the Andes, and never once got wet inside apart from the usual condensation problem with small tents.
The bag it comes in is a proper strong PVC dry-bag. I use it as one for river crossings at times.
The Viper isn't too bad for condenstaion. It's double skinned, and it has a long side opening so ventilation arrangements are quite versatile.
Easy to look up on the net but not so easy to find one now.
Ridge and tunnel tents are easy to cover with a waterproof plastic sheet like a groundsheet from a garden or DIY store for a few dollars or just buy a big sheet of polythene as used in the building trade. It comes in rolls like carpet on a big cardboard tube so just get the guy in the building supplies or DIY store to cut off the length you need.
Most bought groundsheets from garden stores already have eyelets but you can add more easily. If you buy one a bit too big you get extra space at the sides of the tent for dry storage,eg a bike or food rations.
Buy plastic eyelets from a camping shop, reinforce the area it's going on with some turned-over cloth or thin leather, punch the eyelets through ( takes around twenty seconds total to fit one) and you've got a cheap cover to peg out over the tent that will outperform a $200 hyped-up proofed rip-stop nylon tarp for keeping water at bay.
I live on a cold ( sometimes warm) wet island. We get rain all through the year.
Handy stuff. No drinking water shortage, easy washing clothes, and lots for a make-shift shower arrangement with a big plastic bag with a load of holes in it or a proper shower head attached and hung from a tree.
Rain fills the rivers, keeps the trout and salmon happy, and grows fresh juicy leaves to eat on countryside plants instead of the tougher ones that dry weather makes.
Take it all as it comes. Rain or shine, we live in wonderland. Have a great time.
EDIT...just thought (an occasional event. Hurts bad at times).
A poem from the Bard, Rabbie Burns...Castle Gordon, last verse
Not much different from parts of the AT on a bad day....err, the 'Appy Trail?
(Sorry about that one) No castles though. Camping barns.
Wildly here, without control,
Nature reigns and rules the whole;
In that sober pensive mood,
Dearest to the feeling soul,
She plants the forest, pours the flood:
Life's poor day I'll musing rave
And find at night a sheltering cave,
Where waters flow and wild woods wave,
By bonnie Castle Gordon.
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