Re: Sleeping under canvas

[Hactar]

In article <billvan-46AF8A...@news.shawcable.net>,
bill van <bil...@delete.shaw.ca> wrote:
> In article <sgdip857lq8jacgg6...@4ax.com>,
> Heather <redbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:45:11 -0700, bill van <bil...@delete.shaw.ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >In article <aulgp89oumcnaciem...@4ax.com>,
> > > Heather <redbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I personally find camping not worth the trouble. Being eaten alive by
> > >> every mosquito within miles is not my idea of fun even though the
> > >> people around me are happy to have the sacrificial protection. The
> > >> only person I know of who attracts mosquitoes more than I do is
> > >> Kajikit, who is thousands of miles away.
> > >
> > >Secret: find campgrounds by the seashore. No mosquitos.
> >
> > I have one word for you: sandflies.
>
> I don't recommend camping on sand, for that reason and because sand is
> really hard and uncomfortable to sleep on.

Plus sand won't hold tent stakes for crap.

OTOH I went camping once with my parents (or maybe just my father), and
a few times with the Boy Scouts. These days, you'd be hard-pressed to
find wheelchair-friendly outdoorsy experiences with power for bipap
units. I mean, with those conditions, it's not really camping, more
like a hotel with really crappy beds and no maid service. And you'd
think differently, but I've never heard of a cpap/bipap that runs from
SCUBA tanks and batteries.

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[Greg Goss]

ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote:

>bill van <bil...@delete.shaw.ca> wrote:

>> I don't recommend camping on sand, for that reason and because sand is
>> really hard and uncomfortable to sleep on.
>
>Plus sand won't hold tent stakes for crap.

My older brother and I hiked the "West Coast Trail" in 1983. We slept
on beaches for three of the nights.

The tents we used used bent aluminum poles to hold the tent shape, and
the stakes were only important to keep the tent from blowing away when
you weren't in it.

That year, a vandalism crew had wrecked the cablecar runs over the
creek canyons. The trail is mostly on a sandstone plateau a few
hundred feet above the coast -- there are ladders down to the creek
fords, and hand-pull cable cars across where the creeks cut their way
down to sea level. Anyhow, long hiking including a lot of ladder
climbing with a fairly large backpack leaves you pretty tired,
especially if you're as out of shap as I've normally been.

I don't think we bothered with the tent stakes for either tent.
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[paulydak]

On Sun, 19 May 2013 19:21:12 -0400, ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar)
wrote:

Huh, looks like there's a battery pack dealie thing available for, um,
I gotta go look, it's a ResMed S9, not sure the exact model, it's all
a bit cryptic to me for some reason, but looks like it could be
plugged into a 12V power source. Or an inverter for 120. Dunno about
the SCUBA part, tho....

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[N Jill Marsh]

On Sun, 19 May 2013 19:21:12 -0400, ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar)
wrote:

>Plus sand won't hold tent stakes for crap.

You don't use stakes for sand, there are other techniques that work
just fine.


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