What is your definition of Glamping - Page 3

timfromma · 10-03-2016, 01:37 PM

Nothing says glamour more than having to empty and rinse away a week's worth of BMs.

SidecarFlip · 10-03-2016, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by tony5oh

Anything beyond a tent/open air camping.

That covers it except cooking on an open fire and washing in a cold stream (if available) if not, stinking for days....

Been there and did that.

Everidge · 10-03-2016, 01:44 PM

This is 'Glamping' in the 1950's.

Jeff_and_Abby · 10-03-2016, 01:45 PM

We both paid our dues in Scouting ... Winter camping in a tent was a challenge and an accomplishment.

Nowadays, four times the age we were then ... a nice mattress and a bathroom are completely acceptable.

Anyone who has a need to disagree, is going to have to submit a T.P.S. Report, NOTARIZED BY THEIR DW, indicating that roughing it is ... "better."

SidecarFlip · 10-03-2016, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff_and_Abby

We both paid our dues in Scouting ... Winter camping in a tent was a challenge and an accomplishment.

Nowadays, four times the age we were then ... a nice mattress and a bathroom are completely acceptable.

Anyone who has a need to disagree, is going to have to submit a T.P.S. Report, NOTARIZED BY THEIR DW, indicating that roughing it is ... "better."

I 'fondly' remember the canvas tents and the soggy sleeping bags and always smelling like wood smoke. great perfume... When I was an Eagle, I graduated to a Eureka Timberline and a Kelty backpack and a real down bag. I still smelled like wood smoke however...

I still have the Kelty. I use the pack frame to haul out meat on hunts. The Eureka succumbed to rot a long time ago and I graduated in the sleeping bag department too. I now own a KUIU down mummy I take on hunting trips.

I still like to cook on an open fire but I've learned that dry wood makes almost no smoke...lol

Hunting to me is staying in a provided lodge or base camp and let my paid guides do the cooking.

Don't think I'll ever succumb to all out 'glamping'. I can stay home for that.

SidecarFlip · 10-03-2016, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Everidge

This is 'Glamping' in the 1950's.

Isn't that a vintage Fleetwood on the cover? Didn't they have the 'Cadillac' wings?

ChipBruce · 10-03-2016, 02:28 PM

Since my wife will not go camping, we glamp. I haven't camped a day in the last 2 years, but will average 45 days a year glamping. Who's to complain? It keeps us going.

Coolharts · 10-03-2016, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SidecarFlip

I 'fondly' remember the canvas tents and the soggy sleeping bags and always smelling like wood smoke. great perfume... When I was an Eagle, I graduated to a Eureka Timberline and a Kelty backpack and a real down bag. I still smelled like wood smoke however...

I still have the Kelty. I use the pack frame to haul out meat on hunts. The Eureka succumbed to rot a long time ago and I graduated in the sleeping bag department too. I now own a KUIU down mummy I take on hunting trips.

I still like to cook on an open fire but I've learned that dry wood makes almost no smoke...lol

Hunting to me is staying in a provided lodge or base camp and let my paid guides do the cooking.

Don't think I'll ever succumb to all out 'glamping'. I can stay home for that.

As a Scout leader whose Eagle Scout ages out in Feb I feel I have done my time camping. Hot, Cold, Rain, Snow in a small tent in the woods, I can still do it but I would rather sleep on a nice, comfortable bed.

The DW does not like tent camping. The TT is so I can make up the lost weekends she and I missed while the boys and I camped. But... my daughter wants to join the Crew next year so I will be at it again but will still make time for my DW and go glamping in the "big tent" on wheels.