I just looked out my window, saw the sun shining, and in the time it took to walk out of my aparment building, it was raining. Went back inside for my jacket, only to find that when I got outside again, the rain had stopped! Man have I gotta get more prepared for my camping trip this weekend! What's the worst weather you've dealt with while on a camping trip?
I went camping one time and for the whole week, it rained. Yep, nothing but rain. It was horrible. We stuck it out but I was at the laundry mat everyday drying my blankets from the dampness.
I camped in a hurricane once. Well, I think it was downgraded to a tropical storm when it hit the area I was in. But it was a wet, windy mess. It took a week for my feet to not feel wet and nasty.
Where I go camping the weather can sometimes be unpredictable. I've been on camping trips where the weather has been beautiful all week and then I've been on trips where the weather has been wet and cold. One time I was in my pop-up and during the night out of nowhere there was a massive thunderstorm that brought strong winds and hail. The worst weather I would say is the wet and cold. It's so hard to keep warm when everything around you is soaked.
Stranded for the night in two feet of snow on a mountain top with a blizzard setting in? Caught in the open above timberline in a hail storm? 48 hours of torrential rain high in the beartooth absorkas? None of my experiences could compare to being caught in a tornado or even a big hurricane making landfall. I'll stick to the mountains and let you folks enjoy the tornados and hurricanes.
The worst have been intense rain and sleet around freezing for multiple days. Winds over 70 mph. Below zero and horizontal snow for a week.
On a canoe trip in Utah and one in Montana, it was over 112 degrees for more than 5 days in a row. The night time lows were over 78 degrees.
Hi... In my camp in Cold Country...I've been 'treated' to temps of sixty degrees below zero...!! And sometimes, that was both the high AND low for the day...!! But you learn to live with it. It's a matter of dressing properly, and being able to keep warm. Another time...on the shores of Lake Illiamna, we put up a temporary plywood shelter, but the roof surface was not yet waterproof...!! Well, naturally, it rained that night. Those of us who were sleeping under the roof leaks were sorry critters...'cause as you know...few things are worse than a wet sleeping bag...!! I had one of those old tear-drop shaped travel trailers from the 50s...'insulated' with one inch of fiberglass...!! I was bush-flighted in to it one coldish day, and I hadn't readied it for cold weather yet, but I had to spend the night there. The pilot and I utilized every type of heat I had available...candles...cans of Sterno...and two Coleman lanterns. We eventually got the trailer heat up to eight degrees below zero...!! It was the first (and last) time I had ever seen tequila frozen in a grey lump in the bottle...!! I was dressed warmly in my snowmobile suit, and had a few blankets on the bunk...but that STILL was one of the coldest nights that I almost slept in...!! Believe me, I NEVER let that happen again...!!
I like that, Pathfinder1. Cold is a b*tch. I have my own stories for it. I didn't like it much either. But I did survive and it gave me much to impart to others.
Kinda funny how it works and I bet pshch types have written volumes about it but The worst trips always make the best tales.
