Comments on: Fair weather campers

By: Daddio

Daddio — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:43:55 +0000

Found an appropriate quote for this thread:

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

By: Jason Lancaster

Jason Lancaster — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:15:10 +0000

Nice! Alright, you’re right… Ed and Adam have both braved some pretty bad weather in the past years. I can’t argue with that!

In fact, ALL of your winter camping trips seem to have some bad weather. What’s up with that?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:08:23 +0000

Damn!!! Calling me out like I am scared of bad weather! Let’s see…… Wasn’t it two years ago when we went camping in Feb and it got down to 12 degrees at night. It was so cold that I woke up to ice on the inside of my tent. We took shots out of an ice shot glass that formed in a solo cup. Oh and there was last Feb. when it pored down raining all day Friday while we setup camp and it was like 30 degrees out. Don’t you remember not being able to get a really big fire going because everything was soaking wet? That just two of the trips I have been on when the weather is bad. Fair weather campers…… Please…..

I am going to write a blog about one of my friends that have been remodeling his house for five years. I will start it in approximately two years.

By: Christopher M.

Christopher M. — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:21:05 +0000

Just curious, what did you guys do on the house?

By: Jason Lancaster

Jason Lancaster — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:09:47 +0000

Hah, you knew I made this post well before you helped me on Saturday

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:39:53 +0000

Geesh! Help a guy out on his house instead of camping… and then get ripped on the front page of his website. Not cool!

By: Christopher M.

Christopher M. — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:57:25 +0000

I would say it to do with how you view adversity. It can provide you with an opportunity to learn and explore beyond your comfort zone. This is the premise of experiental education. At the same time you have to have a feel for when an adverse situation is a dangerous situation in disguise. I think this might be what experience, age and wisdom are all about.

By: Daddio

Daddio — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:01:38 +0000

“Proper adversity cannot be planned!”

Well said!!

By: Tio Dave

Tio Dave — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:11:05 +0000

Boo fair-weather campers! Adversity makes the world go ’round. On the other hand, camping in nasty weather sounds much better afterwards. Proper adversity cannot be planned!

By: Daddio

Daddio — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:01:27 +0000

I’m with Adam and Ed on this one. I agree with some of what you’re saying — some of my most vivid memories of camping trips decades ago are those where our tent is getting buried in snow and we end up sleeping in the car (good thing we weren’t backpacking that time!), or the hot summer night in the Adirondacks where the rain was so heavy it would have collapsed the cabin tent if not for my periodic naked sprints around the perimeter to shore up the supports and pour the excess water off the top (canvas is not the best material for cabin tents!).
There are memories shared and smiled over later, adversities overcome and all that, but in each case, the circumstances crept up and surprised us. If I’d known ahead of time what the conditions would be, I’d have rescheduled if at all possible.
To each his own, and it’s certainly true that some folks are more suited to foul weather than others… but there’s a reason they call it foul, and when there’s gonna be rain falling down for sure, I like to be snug inside a nice warm house, reading a book and listening to the pitter patter of raindrops on the roof (or maybe working on renovating my son’s house…)