Favorite tent pictures

Stealth campsite on the JMT near Bench Lake. (2004, one of the last trips I seriously used a camera on.)

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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/