What Did you camp in prior to your PUP?

[Funrover]

Here is my fiance by our tent, we still use it a few times a year......  This is one of 3 tents...The most roomy one......   I am currently looking into building a roof mount tent for my Range Rover in the hopes of an expedition from Canada to Mexico!!

[flyfisherman]

As far back as I can remember, our family vacations were spent at state & county parks, in an old timey, real canvas wall tent. There were other places, too, we camped at, like state forests and some private tracts of land that bordered a lake or stream. My Dad made them great adventures, of places to see and things to do. This was the late 30's and the early 40's and the days of WWII ... I'm sure most of you will remember back then(?) ~ Anyway, that's what parents do to their young'uns thinking when their growing up, all this camping and such, it just makes it's mark!

Then I went off to the military in the early 50's. They found out I was such a technical genius and so full of raw talent, that after boot camp I was assigned to a rifle company, known in those days as an "upfront grunt"; and I toted most of what I owned on my back!  Needless to say, after that "tour of duty", back packing for recreation simply was not on my list of "things to-do"!  But, I did so much love to canoe downriver on overnight camping/fishing trips, where the canoe carries all the load!

After I got married, DW said she would NEVER sleep in a tent with all "those bugs and stuff", so ended up with a 28' Airstream. Again, not DW's cup of tea (her idea of camping out is the proverbial Holiday Inn with no indoor pool). DD was hit with the same stick, so I got rid of that half of a house I was towing down the road and got back to canoes and tents. Oh, there was a smaller, single axle Shasta hardside, but that thing was horrible to tow down the road! After getting rid of all the hardsiders and glad to be back with the canoe and the tent, there was talk of a popup camper. Had seen a few and one got my eye that had a canoe on it's roof while we were topping off our tanks on a trip into a national forest.

Then one day, at a national forest C/G, next to a river in a tent, where it had been doing one of those all day, all night and now into the next day, cold, damp drizzling rains, there pulls into the site next to us a popup camper. This guy backs in, parks and unhitches; and popups that thing up in short order and about 30 minutes later yells at me & my fly fishing buddy to come on over and have a hot cup of coffee! You know we did and that popup was warm and snug and and the coffee was delicious! Hated to leave that dry place and return to our rain soaked tent!  Anyway, very shortly after that I had my first popup camper!




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[tlhdoc]

A big dome tent.  Haven't used it since 1996.

[barbjeff]

i had been a tent camper for close to thirty years, roughing it in the heat, cold, rain, bugs, etc. looking down my nose at those 'softies' in campers......until the STORM hit, the first night of a 5 day trip with my 14 yr old son, and lasted for 4 days. now we were looking at the 'softies' with envy as thier furnaces turned on to keep them warm and dry. Everything was soaked clothes, food, sleeping bags, what a mess. After that we drove trip directly to a local RV show and the rest is history.

[bountyhunter]

Actually you guys are not going to believe this one, but we sold our 30' 5th wheel with slide outs and bought a pop up to replace it.  

My wife thinks I'm losing it!!

We wanted something light to take up the mountian jeep trails.  Also will be used as base camp for elk season, base camp for 4 wheeling the old mining roads.

We bought the Jayco Baja with the cargo area on the front of the trailer. Taking it up for the first trip on Monday!!

[hatlet]

We started out in a pup tent, moved up to a 8 x 10 cabin tent(outside poles), after our daughter was born we bought a used 1978 Viking Little gazer pup, kept that for 18 yrs, just sold it and bought a new 05 Fleetwood Tuscon

[abbear]

I have been in tents all my life.  Got the pop up more for my wife and mother - I still travel and camp minimalist when alone.

[rjh8115]

We started in a little two-person tent (before kids).  We then graduated to a nice two-room tent with a screened in room.  Now we're using a Viking Legend 2465.  We still have the other tents for the occasional tent camping trip (boy scouts, etc.).