Tag Archives: camping

A typical life time will have at least one memory of a totally botched camping trip. Like the time your tent leaked so much you woke up with it sticking to your wet hair, or the poignancy of pouring your canvas palace forth from its tarpaulin sheath to find some crucial ingredient missing, like the tent poles. Camping was once ...

The Walking Shelter is a one person tent designed by company "Sibling" based out of Australia. The tent tucks easily (we're not sure how easy it is) in to a pair of sneakers making it just about as portable as can be.

If you are anything like us then the concept of camping just doesn't appeal. No, give us a luxury hotel with a real bathroom any day, thank you very much. That said though, these camping set ups do make us wonder if "roughing it" really would be all that bad.

The "Hanging Cliff Tent" by Black Diamond is one of those "gadgets" that you see and know you must have it. Who wouldn't want to hang from a tree while camping? No bears, no cold ground, the feeling of swinging from the trees...

The great outdoors is typically not a friend of us geeks. First off, there’s no electricity, which means no internet, no phone charging, no morning cartoons and most importantly, no charging of our vibrating butt plug. And if that’s not enough to deter you from a camping trip, there’s the fact that geeks seem to be bug magnets. It must ...

Isn’t this one of the cutest things you’ve ever seen in your life? I don’t know what it is about tiny things that makes them so adorable. I mean, this is a friggen’ lantern. It’s not like it’s a mini-unicorn vomiting rainbows or something awesome like that. Regardless, the Mini LED Camping Lantern seems like a pretty rad tool and ...

Instructables strikes again with another incredibly useful HOW TO. The next time you go camping, pick up a can of tuna on the way. After eating it for dinner and washing it down with a beer, you can saw the top off the beer can and turn the whole thing into a compact, portable stove. Genius. Link [via]

Camping enthusiasts need to take note and fast. QYield tents not only look good, they’re also some of the easiest to set up. As you can see in the above diagram, the Unicorn model tent can be set up in under 10 seconds. Just insert that expanding plastic piece into the top, pop it like it’s hot and you’ve got ...

Camping can be a real blast with some buddies and cold brews, but tugging along a boat with you can be a real bitch, especially if you don’t have a trailer hitch on your car. Thankfully, the 21st century has given way to the Backpack Inflatable Pontoon Boat. In under 15 minutes, you can assemble a full pontoon boat for ...

Remember the Ballpoint Eating Utensils I wrote about a few months back? This Outdoor Cutlery reminds me of that concept, though this time made for the outdoors man, rather than the cubicle man. If your out in the woods, with none of your beloved silverware at hand, it would be nice to have a set of suitable cutlery to get ...