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Building your own tent comes in varying degrees of comfort. Your personal woodcraft, carpentry, or sewing skills can come into play. The Rough Hut The very simplest of building a tent requires nothing more than a hatchet and a woodland area where you’re allowed to cut. You’ll want two sturdy poles with a fork at […]

Eureka, as a company, prides itself on creating tents and other equipment that are easy to set up and use. In size, they range from a small, one person Boy Scout tent, right on up through family-sized tents so you need to learn how you can set up a Eureka tent in the fastest way […]

Hammocks can have several distinct advantages when camping. They get your sleeping area up off the ground, they allow air circulation around them, and they can even be strung in a tree. By applying insecticide to the hammock’s hanging ropes, crawling, biting insects can be discouraged. With the addition of mosquito netting, flying insects can […]

Experienced campers, hikers, farmers, and even suburban dwellers are already snickering at how to avoid ticks when camping. If only we knew how to prevent tick bites while camping! Suzette Haden Elgin wrote a humorous song that begins, “If not for ticks, we’d see the angels…” She pointed out that seeing angels would make life […]

How to go camping on a budget really depends on how much of a budget you have. A camping budget can range from if you turn out your pockets all you will find is lint to glamping to save on rent. It can mean building a twig hut or turning the back end of your […]