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Question: Now that you have a PUP (or other camper), you ever go back to tenting?
Nope, once off the ground - ALWAYS off the ground! - 41 (55.4%)
Sometimes, but not too often. - 22 (29.7%)
We're in the camper, the kids still use the tent. - 4 (5.4%)
All the time! - 7 (9.5%)
Total Voters: 74

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« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2010, 12:55:47 pm »
We have grown children with spouses, sooooo
We'll sleep in the camper, but they get the tent... mwahahahaha
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« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2010, 02:10:05 pm »
No, we haven't...but we're about to in a couple of weeks.  My parents are coming for a visit and we'll let 'em sleep in the PUP with DS and DDog and DH and I will sleep in our tent.  They offered to sleep in the tent but my dad uses a CPAP, so it will be easier to set up his thing on the counter in the PUP, we sold our "circus tent" but kept our backpacking tent, so there's not room to set up a makeshift table or anything.

I must love them, huh???  I sure do love my camper bed!
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« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2010, 08:45:25 pm »
I never liked tent camping as a Scout.......
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« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2010, 05:50:16 am »
For backcountry camping, accessed either on foot or by canoe, yes, I still tent.  I've also tented it a few times in places that I wouldn't care to drag the TT into because of ruts/washed-out roads.

What has changed is the length of time I tent and the amount of junk that I bring along.  Before, it'd be 1-2 weeks.  Now, its 1-2 nights.  Before, the kitchen would be fairly involved.  Now, its boil-in-the-bag MREs.

But, mostly, I find a comfortable spot to park the TT just outside where I'd like to explore.  I then make daytrips into the backcountry, or maybe a single overnight trip if the urge really hits me.
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« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2010, 10:23:35 am »
With my young DD and DS in Scouting, my tenting, hiking, backpacking days ARE BACK!

Heck, I get to use my old REI membership again! Wink
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« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2010, 05:51:21 pm »
I do tent camping twice yearly.  One is a primitive camp canoe trip. There's no other way to get to the camp site.  The other time is at a race track, but the next time might be the PUP in place of the traditional tent camp...
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« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2010, 05:32:11 pm »
I love my tent, but hate the packing/unpacking.  No AC here here is a bad thing, too.  My college-age kids now use it. 
And when they're with us in the T@B, they're in the add-a-room.
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« Reply #22 on: July 22, 2010, 07:00:15 pm »
I use a one-person tent occasionally bicycle camping, when taking the boat by myself or to combine camping with a business trip.

My family sized tent was gifted to my adult son when we bought the popup.
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« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2010, 08:04:02 pm »
We only tent camp when backpacking in the Grand Canyon...
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« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2010, 08:05:26 am »
Not for us.........gotta love being high and dry and ready made beds waiting for after a day of fun.....
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