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Inspired by this link at Backpacker.com, here are some tent pictures of mine in various settings:
My REI Quarter dome at At Cache Creek Wildlife Area.
Same tent, behind Mission Peak at Eagle Spring Backpack Camp.
Moon through the webbing, Immigrant Wilderness, Y Lake.
Hidden Spring, Henry Coe State Park.
Post your links in the comments if you’ve got ‘em.
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March 29th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Stealth campsite on the JMT near Bench Lake. (2004, one of the last trips I seriously used a camera on.)
March 29th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Guitar Lake after Hurricane Rita:
http://www.fedak.net/photos/WhitneyGuitar/IMG_2182-standard.html
Tent from Grizzly Peak, Emmigrant Wilderness:
http://www.fedak.net/photos/EmigrantBackpackSun/P7043331-standard.html
March 30th, 2008 at 6:52 am
I should take a picture of every campsite from now on. I think a picture of camp in a beautiful place somehow connects more with someone that doesn’t like the hiking part as much.
http://www.justinwp.com/article_151.html
March 30th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Dude, you are livin’ the dream!
I seem to have an uncontrollable urge to take pictures of my tent when I’m out camping, and all those pix at the Backpacker thread show that it’s a familiar urge.
A tent is like a symbol of home in the wilderness.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:32 am
One of my favorite photos of my home made spinnaker tarp as it sits alongside the banks of the West Fork Yaak River along a little used Forest Service road (which in my case was also the Pacific Northwest Trail) just outside the Northwest Peaks scenic area in Montana.
http://tinyurl.com/2y7ehm
March 31st, 2008 at 6:47 am
Question for campers / outdoorspeople — does anyone NOT use a tent ever? I tend strongly to prefer not to if breezes are up and mosquitos are down. I’ve always found ensconcing myself in a polyeurethene bubble somehow defeats the purpose of being “one with nature”. I suppose, though, if I were truly that (one with nature), I wouldn’t need my petroleum-based sleeping bag and ground cover either!
PS: Tom, when were you at Cache Creek? Do you have a posting here?
March 31st, 2008 at 8:46 am
Cache Creek overnighter here.
Most through-hikers cowboy camp as much of the hike as possible, if the bugs aren’t too bad.
A guy told me once that when he was a Boy Scout they always took a tent to the Sierra but never used it.
Judging from some of the extremely remote locales in the Backpacker thread (and the extreme weather, like sub-zero with several feet of snow), there are times when a tent is a necessary evil.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:53 am
gambolin man Says: “…does anyone NOT use a tent ever?”
I never go without taking some kind of tarp, tent, or other kind of wind and rain shelter. But in the peak of the CA summer I don’t usually bother to pitch it. On the shoulder seasons, even if it looks clear, wind or unexpected precipitation can lurk, so I more often pitch it on those times of the year.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:45 am
I’ll occasionally not use a tent if I’m stealth camping in the fall.
(In the spring there’s too many bugs.)
In the backcountry I’m too much of a light sleeper and won’t get any sleep if every pine cone dropping wakes me up.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
I’m late on this thread, but here are my submissions:
A nice summer campsite at Upper Lena Lake in Olympic National Park:
http://flickr.com/photos/laurabelle/438326212/in/set-72157600029557182/
and my favorite, at Mount Rainier in spring:
http://flickr.com/photos/laurabelle/48532740/in/set-1058492/