Thread: How serious a camper are you?

When it comes to camping, I like simple and efficent gear, also the cheaper the better too

Tent- Juts bought an oz-trail deluxe 'rapid pitch' tent (only a new design) and still yet to break it in on a camping trip, so wish me luck. Not the class of say an Oz-tent or Black Wolf but less than half the price and nearly as quick I'm not gonna whinge if it's not top quality canvas like the Oz-tent. Plus it has a gazebo type front so I'm not bombarded by flies when I am cooking and eating my tucker.

Cooking gear- I use the el-cheap $20 butane cartridge units, but just got a 'freebie' 2 burner gas stove with my 4WD action subs so that'l get good use. Utensils are all cleaned before and after a trip and stored in one of those cheap 'wherehouse' $10 containers. I am paranoid about food poisoning and always go a bit 'over the top' with that sort of thing.

Chair- Always like to spend money on a good chair and ones with stubby holders are always the prefernece (since I like a beer or 12 ). Nothing worse thasn being uncomfortable when you're camping.

Table- Lightweight and cheap card table does the job or the tailgate on the Rangie for one-nighter trips, although I do have a HD item for longer stays (for sale in the markets, click on the link here). Nothing wrong with it but just a bit cumbersome for me.

Cooking in general- All pre-made before I leave, not always practical on a 2-3 week trip, but never been away that long so yet to find out the shortfalls of that.

Fridge- I just recently bought a Waeco CF-40 fridge, should have forked out on one years ago. Been carrying ice and eskies around for years and sick of the ice not lasting more than a day. Will say I do like my fridge and the best part is the beer is ALWAYS cold

I don't have pics of my camping set-up but I've described what I take on trips.

Trav

Our setup was pretty basic when it was just 2 of us and the dog with the old rangie -

4 man dome tent
sleeping bags
self inflating mattress
lge tarp and poles to attach to rack
2 burner lpg stove
3 way finch fridge
2 and 3 kg lpg bottles
cast iron pan
s/s billy
s,m ss pots
2 lge plastic tubs for food
20ltr jerry of water- we usually go where water is available
shovel
tomahawk/axe

Now we have a 4 yo and a 11 month old i am setting up a 6x4 trailer so we can carry all the crap the missus wants to take, will be looking at a tent top for the trailer soon to make it a little bit easier. We have 4 tents from a 2 man dome to 4 man dome to 6 man tome with front vestibule to a large family size 2 room cabin tent.

Originally Posted by OLR-067

The missus and I have two ways to go camping, either in the bloodbox or the county. The county is being set up for the big trip as the bloodobx is just a bit too loud...

With bloodbox I remove one stretcher rack and put in 4 tool boxes as bed base/storage. Nice big King Size bed too.The other rack holds 3 marine boards, table and chairs and rolled up mattress.Lift up when bed is set up. Have tarp to hang of the back.

County has rooftop tent and tarp off rack.We have 3 way fridge which while driving is powered by battery pack charged direct from main battery.Once at camp switch to gas. Have a gas mount coming and fridge slide so can remain in back, with door open of course.Also have drop down table on back door. We generally use single burn cartridge stove, but also have a bigger 3 burner.We also carry two MTB's to get around.Water is taken care of with 52Lt tank on rear passenger floor pumped to back door.







both take about 5 minutes to set up and suit us pretty well.Just need to sort rear storage in county a bit more.I think both ways we keep it fairly simple.

cheers
Paul

Is that pic at Charlie Moorland camping area up Kenilworth way?? Might be wrong, just looks familiar that's all.

Good setup though you've got may I add.

Trav