Posts Tagged ‘sleep’
I live in Iowa and camp in the winter summer spring and fall, i just use a cheap -40 sleeping bag for all year.
I am considering upgrading to the MSS because of its functionality and the way it is actually 3 bags in one
so what do you think? Are they woth the $250 or just stick it out with the $40 one that ive had for years?
its not a bad bag but i need something for those mountain trips and long stay backpacking extravaganzias
Last year when we were just bf/gf we went Winter camping and stayed in a tent in this lovely campground run by a really nice couple. They had a New Years Party for all the campers plus we got to watch the Rose Parade followed by a football game in Pasadena Ca the next day. They had a fire going in the fire place and it was soooo nice. We met some really nice older people too
Ok, they e mailed me and said that a family that was coming had to cancel and wanted to know if we wanted their cabin. It’s two bedrooms with a small kitchen (and a bathroom with a shower). This year we are Man and Wife (lol lol) and I’m the wife (pregnant wife at that!!). Two other campers will be going with us. Two little teenage age boys who happen to be sooo very gay. One is my younger brother and the other little boy is my husband’s younger brother. They recently came out of the closet to us their loving and super tolerant older sister and brother lol. They are still deeply embedded in the closet with our respective parents and thinking that they are only two good friends our families suggested that we take them along. I think the cabin is a better option because my husband and I can supervise them better. In a tent who knows what might happen with those two alone. I’ve already told them that Nothing!! gay better happen between them accept holding hands and goo goo eye looks at each other. The cabin is like more expensive but I think I could get the parents to pay the extra cost (maybe the entire cost because he and I don’t have much money).
I go to camp every summer for a month, i am 14. What normally happens is the firsr few nights i lay wide awake in bed all night not beong able to sleep which makes me feel sick and get homesick. I am wondering if anyone knows about some good sleeping pills that children can take, because if im not able to sleep i just want to be able to have a pill in my sleeping bag that i can quickly take. Even tho im a teenager i still take kids pills but i want one now because i dont want to risk any side effects because u r normally supposed to bring medecation to the nurse but that will be embarrassing having to go every night for the first couple nights just to get it! I would greatly appreciate any suggestions!!!
Most hunters I know can just throw down a tarp on the ground, throw down a nasty unwashed sleeping bag, and boom! Asleep. I could sleep anywhere at all when I was a child, until I was about 25, but now I have some issues.
First of all, I have a phobia about sleeping bags. I feel trapped, like someone could attack me in my sleep, and I couldn’t fight back, and they could kill me or torture me easily because I was trapped in my sleeping bag. I carry a sleeping bag in my pack hunting because I am afraid of getting lost and dying of exposure, but I REALLY don’t like to be in a sleeping bag.
I am very thin, and don’t produce a lot of heat.
Consequently, I will put on white thermal underwear, a pair of thin socks, a pair of thick socks, gloves, a sweatshirt, and a wool cap on when I go to sleep. If it is really cold, I will put on a pair of insulated underwear over that, in addition to insulated down booties. I will then sleep under two thick blankets. I will sleep in a small tent with a rain fly. I use an old futon mattress to lie on. I actually prefer to use an actual pillow. As I am a very small man, with little ability to fight, I keep a handgun with me when I sleep, usually a small semi automatic, with no round in the chamber, so I won’t accidentally shoot myself.
I have a lot of fears of sleeping alone in the woods. I fear robbers/killers/Blair Witch/UFO abductions/Strange Noise, etc. I dislike sounds in the night. My ideal solution, is whenever possible I try to persuade someone to sleep with me in the tent. When someone else is with me, I have no problems, and go right to sleep.
I like being in the woods. But I really hate sleeping, particularly at night in the woods. This has practically destroyed the pleasure of hunting for me. I have a person who can tell me where to be opening day, but the stress of camping out the night before, really makes for an unpleasant and tired first day. Right now the only way I have of dealing with this, is I really suck up to my friends when I am about to go camping, and I beg, beg, beg one of them to come with me.
Does anyone else have these issure about camping?
Jeremy
Deer eat the shoots of baby trees. Angeles national forest can only hold so many deer, or the forest will die off. 100 years ago, all the deer were killed by mountain lions. Now they are killed by hunters. Given a choice, I would rather be shot by a bullet than killed by a Mountain Lion. But that is just me.
Guess Jeremy took off.
Where did You Sleep Last Night/In the Pines/Black Girl…
I’m looking for all recordings/versions of this song!
(I just need to know the singer/band.)
Help me??
Yeah, I know they are not all the same song…which is why I’m looking for different versions. (Of different versions I guess…) 
I know the more popoular versions…
How about some Canadian ones?
like with a sleeping bag?no tents?or just a blanket?and pillow?looking at the stars?in the sand?or grass?u and some of ur good friends?or ur family to?a flash light?to tell stories?scary ones?do people still sleep in the front yard?
In this 2 part series, I discuss the components of a comprehensive, four season lightweight backpacking sleep system which can be tailored for a variety of weather conditions. This is my approach which gives me the flexibility to do everything from cold weather, lightweight backpacking trips, to summer ultra lightweight hiking trips. This system includes: synthetic sleeping bag, sleeping pad (closed-cell foam), fleece sleeping bag liners, and even a neat little trick I picked up along the way.