OT: The News Thread

[zeke]

camping is caveman cosplay, maybe.

but caveman cosplay is pretty awesome.

 

[zeke]

mosquitos dissappear by July.

but if you go up in June it's mosquito insanity and I don't believe anyone who says they enjoy it.

but the bugs literally dissappear overnight once it moves to july. it's eerie.

and getting cool is the easiest quest ever. you're literally right by the water the entire time.

 

[MindzEye]

camping is caveman cosplay, maybe.

but caveman cosplay is pretty awesome.

Cavemen didn't have sleeping bags and Coleman stoves.

But yes, that's how most campers picture themselves

 

[anne25]

Camping is a motel rather than a fancy hotel.

 

[zeke]

Cavemen didn't have sleeping bags and Coleman stoves.

But yes, that's how most campers picture themselves

i'm sure cavemen made themselves some pretty nice furry blankets. homeless don't have sleeping bags either.

but yeah, bringing stoves is lame. though there's a fire ban this year and they might not let me in without one, which is annoying.

 

[Preston]

Cavemen didn't have sleeping bags and Coleman stoves.

But yes, that's how most campers picture themselves

Who they think they are:



Reality:

 

[Wayward DP]

But summer camping is the worst. It's a never ending quest to get cool and/or avoid mosquitos. The battle is quite literally never won and you spend the entire time suffering.

only if you suck at camping tho

 

[Wayward DP]

Camping is homeless cosplay

Fight me

nah you just suck at camping. it's as comfortable as you make it. and allows you to see and experience places that you would not or could not otherwise. places that are often exceedingly beautiful. and not crowded with instagramming tourist fucks destroying the place cause most people are allergic to effort. so you get that added satisfaction.

 

[Wayward DP]

mosquitos dissappear by July.

but if you go up in June it's mosquito insanity and I don't believe anyone who says they enjoy it.

but the bugs literally dissappear overnight once it moves to july. it's eerie.

and getting cool is the easiest quest ever. you're literally right by the water the entire time.

I mean it's not a hard and fast "JULY" cut off date. but once it warms up enough it burns off the skeeters. I don't mind the mossy's myself, after a childhood spending summers in Muskoka I don't really react to them, but blackflies are the fucking worst. I loathe them.

plus, if it's cool enough for the bugs, it's usually cool enough for me to just cover all my exposed skin comfortably anyhow (I don't do deet or bug spray, shit is poison).

plus, if you know what you're doing you can usually keep them away from your campsite (smoke, wind, etc.)

and yeah, when you're next to the water, you can always be a comfortable temp. hell, water for cool, campfire for warm, as needed.

 

[zeke]

yeah I mean even once you commit to a even just a 3-4 day multi-campsite loop canoe trip you're already leaving most of the poseurs behind.

 

[Wayward DP]

Who they think they are:

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Reality:

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okay I'll offer to take you camping once and teach you to enjoy it. has to be in NS though. no Jonas.

 

[MindzEye]

homeless don't have sleeping bags either.

Ehhh....they actually do. Cavemen definitely didn't have coleman stoves though.

but yeah, bringing stoves is lame. though there's a fire ban this year and they might not let me in without one, which is annoying.

Ahh, so you prefer keeping it old school by banging two rocks against each other eh?

 

[zeke]

I mean it's not a hard and fast "JULY" cut off date.

pretty close!

but once it warms up enough it burns off the skeeters. I don't mind the mossy's myself, after a childhood spending summers in Muskoka I don't really react to them, but blackflies are the fucking worst. I loathe them.

i mean i fucking loathe both of them.

but you get bites in the city anyways.

it's the clouds of them buzzing around your face that are killer, and those completely dissappear by this point.

 

[Wayward DP]

Ehhh....they actually do. Cavemen definitely didn't have coleman stoves though.



Ahh, so you prefer keeping it old school by banging two rocks against each other eh?

this misses the point. camping can be as luxurious or hardcore as you want. younger Wayward was way more hardcore. he used to mock people who used sleeping pads and did not sleep directly on the ground as being soft.

older Wayward always brings his pad with him and truthfully I dunno if I'm prepared to go back to sleeping on roots and rocks.

modern technology has made camping as comfortable and enjoyable experience as ever! (if that's what you want)

 

[MindzEye]

nah you just suck at camping. it's as comfortable as you make it.

Ehhhh

and allows you to see and experience places that you would not or could not otherwise. places that are often exceedingly beautiful. and not crowded with instagramming tourist fucks destroying the place cause most people are allergic to effort. so you get that added satisfaction.

That's fair, but there's lots of ways to do that.

 

[zeke]

Ehhh....they actually do. Cavemen definitely didn't have coleman stoves though.



Ahh, so you prefer keeping it old school by banging two rocks against each other eh?

I mean using the flint isn't hard.

 

[Volcanologist]

August/early Sept is the best for camping. cooler at night, bugs gone, great during the daytime

 

[MindzEye]

I mean using the flint isn't hard.

I agree, using a striking rod is easy.

Cavemen didn't have those though.

 

[Wayward DP]

pretty close!



i mean i fucking loathe both of them.

but you get bites in the city anyways.

it's the clouds of them buzzing around your face that are killer, and those completely dissappear by this point.

when I used to work at a summer camp in Muskoka, it basically went like this:

April - no bugs. lake is cold as balls and sucks your breath away.
May - blackflies start coming out. by May 24, they're swarming. mossys slowly waking up
June - if you stand in one place for 30 seconds, you're swarmed. blackflies start dying off, mossys take over
July - blackflies totally gone, mossys remain, but below peak. horseflies and deer flies are out and about.
August - mossys mostly gone. the ones that are left die off over the remainder of the month.

 

[Preston]

okay I'll offer to take you camping once and teach you to enjoy it. has to be in NS though. no Jonas.

I've only ever gone with the hardcore type that make it as "comfortable" as possible. I still prefer a Ritz Carlton. It's not for me, but I do get it and accept that people enjoy it. I see people enjoying it all the time so obviously I'm the weird one!