Have you ever gone camping... and it rained?

[SofaGeorge]

My girlfriend has a HUGE family. She has eight brothers and sisters... countless nieces and nephews... the brother in laws... sisters in law... etc... Every year they do a family camp out as sort of a family reunion. It's a lake called Pinecrest in California. Her family has been going there every year since my girlfriend was a toddler. (She's 46 now.) The camp out is always a hoot... very different from what I'm acustomed to in life... but as familiar as pie to them. The kids swim in the lake... a few years ago two of the 8 year old cousins taught my dog George to swim (mostly by one tossing a stick into the lake while the other one got behind him and pushed his butt in the water)... there would be campfires at night. Families took turns cooking dinners and breakfasts. It is just a sweet time.

This year I decided to rent a luxury RV. My girlfriends parents are getting old... late 70s... are slowing down... and I thought it would make things easier for them if they had an RV to stay in. (We were just going to pitch a tent beside the RV.)

My girlfriend and I got there on Wednesday... before any of the other families... and the unthinkable happened.

We felt a raindrop.

The sky was dark and gray... as afternoon turned to night the showers began... lightning ... thunder.

A couple families came in... got rained out heavily... and showed up for breakfast looking like drowned rats.

Then my girlfriends mom showed up. Her dad bowed out because of the rain.

And then the big storm came in... bad bad bad... it was a flood the whole night. My girlfriend said she couldn't count how many times it started and stopped raining. The lightning was really cool.

Because we had three beds in the RV my girlfriend and I gave up on the idea of pitching a tent... instead we slept in the RV all night and watched the storm.

It was great.

I've been camping many times... caught in many storms... but getting caught in a storm in an RV is a hoot. You turn on the heater... make some hot chocolate... curl up in the blankets.

It's all good.

 

[slobberknocker]

That does sound sweet. Now if I could only convince my girlfriend to go camping. She's too much of a city person.

 

[crimson coal]

I took an hours footage while laying in a hammock of a thunderstorm in Emerald Bay, Tahoe. I just swung lightly back and forth as the lightning carreened across the sky and the thunder echoed across the whole lake..It was awesome..Probably not safe but awesome non the less.

 

[DcupSheepNipples]

Rain lol! How about on top of a 10'000 foot plus mountain in a blizzard! Fun stuff when you wonder if your digits will survive to pork a beaver another day! Long live Mummie Bags!

 

[SofaGeorge]

Rain lol! How about on top of a 10'000 foot plus mountain in a blizzard! Fun stuff when you wonder if your digits will survive to pork a beaver another day! Long live Mummie Bags!

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[anabolicmd]

Short and Sweet!

Went on a solo mountain/Snow hike in early Spring! Still Twenty foot drifts in places! From the base up six foot of snow! Just before night fall and I reached the summit and a freak low came in! Near Hurricane force winds etc. Below freezing with windchill! My tent got blasted ripped apart grabbed me left over gear and bag moved to a out cropping of rocks near my campsite and built a snow cave! Only brought my 15c bag so I dam well near lost some toes and fingers but it cleared out the next day late afternoon and I mad it out that night! Went to the hospital got checked out, treatment, nothing permanent lost some outer flesh that grew back! Even though it was one of my Warm bags I'm still glad I brought it! Without it, my finger love days would be over!

Reall? What happened next?

 

[DcupSheepNipples]

Post the whole story.

Short and Sweet!

Went on a solo mountain/Snow hike in early Spring! Still Twenty foot drifts in places! From the base up six foot of snow! Just before night fall and I reached the summit and a freak low came in! Near Hurricane force winds etc. Below freezing with windchill! My tent got blasted ripped apart grabbed me left over gear and bag moved to a out cropping of rocks near my campsite and built a snow cave! Only brought my 15c bag so I dam well near lost some toes and fingers but it cleared out the next day late afternoon and I mad it out that night! Went to the hospital got checked out, treatment, nothing permanent lost some outer flesh that grew back! Even though it was one of my Warm bags I'm still glad I brought it! Without it, my finger love days would be over!

 

[crimson coal]

Hmmm..I'll bet my Hammock was more comftorable then your snow cave. I even had a little blow up pillow for my head.

 

[danielson]

yes

survival bags are your friend.....especially if you have a piece of shit sleeping bag not evn suitable for room temperature


seriously.....if i was gonna take anything with me, a survival bag would be up there, you can use them for anything, even making a basher in an emergency

 

[biteme]

Nearly every Fu***** time. I have the worst luck when it comes to camping. Once when I was staying at Camp Granada, I almost got eaten by a bear. Camp was very entertaining and they said we'd have some fun if it stopped raining.

 

[gonelifting]

Good timing SG, on that RV. I love listening to rain, when I`m INSIDE. lol