In the summer you are planning to go on the nature and fry kebabs there, taking with him a fishing rod, a frisbee, sunblock and a tent? If you are not staunch a bard, and in the closet you do not have a canvas backpack stuffed with the right things to hike, catch 10 life hacking, which actually help to spend the night in a tent comfortably.
Lina Shakhov
Head of Press Service of the youth forum "iVolga 2017».
1. Check the packaging of the tent
Before you go camping, make sure that all the pegs and Cords in place. Spread out the tent at home and make sure to install it you have all the necessary parts. Typically, the tent consists of a waterproof tent and the inner tent light with a mosquito net and waterproof bottom. It shall be accompanied pegs frame Cords and arcs that hold the rag house in high winds.
Do not be lazy and see if the lightning work at your tent. With the coming of darkness you can crawl not only cold, but also all sorts of small creatures.
2. Learn how to pitch a tent
It is very important! Crooked tent posed not only confuse perfectionists in their appearance, but also can leak in the rain or fly away with the wind. To begin, read the manual - this is more will not hurt anyone.
Remember that the tent should stand on a flat surface without pits and mounds. Assemble the tent (tie all Cords, insert the pegs stretch tent and close all doors). In this position, a tent should not be charges. If it looks like a real flat house, you can safely spend the night in it.
3. Stock up on the mat or mattress
Despite the fact that the tent has a waterproof bottom, it is perfectly cold passes. And if you do not want for something to freeze, then Get a foam or inflatable mat. Dense foam quality will save you from the cold and moisture, but sleep on it pretty hard. Although in one or two nights you get used, and the back stop hurting. Two narrow foam Stela overlap to cold is not slipped into the gap between them.
An inflatable pad or foam mattress softer. Sleep on this bed comfortable, but it costs five times more expensive. You choose.
4. Prepare a sleeping bag and a blanket
If you think that a simple blanket in summer will save you from the cold of the night in a tent, you are greatly mistaken. In nature, especially in the morning, it is very cold. Therefore, the bed sheet and blanket is suitable only if you have a heated tent.
The optimal solution - a sleeping bag. Choose carefully and pay attention to the temperature of comfort, which is listed on it. This is the temperature at which you do not freeze in the sleeping bag.
5. Catch with a heating pad
It does not take much space, but cold at night you her very rejoice. A good option - to phase-change material: it long enough, it is safe to use. If the cold caught you off guard, and you do not have at hand a special heating pads, you can take an ordinary plastic bottle, fill it with hot water and put in a sleeping bag.
6. Do not forget the pillow
Another important subject which will help to brighten up the night in a tent - a pillow. Do not take with a big home or Dumka feather pillow from the couch. All this variety is perfectly replace the inflatable analog. Inflatable cushions are not only sold in tourist shops, but also in hypermarkets.
Another good substitute cushion - cover from your sleeping bag, which can be folded warm clothes such as jacket. The tent will be order, and you do not lose the case.
7. Prepare a protection against insects
Mosquitoes, beetles, woodlice, spiders - it's not the most pleasant neighbors in a tent. That insects are not entered in a cloth house, close the door tightly. If they have crept back, we can apply a folk remedy - hang bunches of tansy in a tent. But not the fact that you will find it.
You can Nadym special spirals, but they are not very pleasant smell and strongly blanket vnutripalatochnoe space. Spend the night in this room do not want to not only insects, but also yourself.
There is a modern way - a portable battery-powered device. Working through the night, it does not smell and does not make noise, but it costs more spirals.
Do not wear wool clothes on nature as wool aroma attracts mites.
8. Grab a change of socks
In the context of the campground, you may have to change, and a pair of socks per day. A lot of them will not take place, so do not be shy and take a minimum of three pairs of two days.
9. Take a folding chair or foam for seating
Not to look for a decent brovnyshko and not sit on blankets, folding chairs or grab a foam-sidushku with a rubber band, with which it is attached directly to the tourist. Sit on a chair or the chair is very comfortable, but the foam can be worn during the day. "Seating position" will be with you, where would you go, and his hands will be free.
10. Prepare lighting for tents and territory
In order not to stumble in the night on the pegs and not look for things to touch, please be economical, yet powerful enough lighting. Cover the jar clear plastic glow in the dark paints. Better from the inside, so you do not get your hands dirty.
Or tie a lantern to a bottle of water, and you can even just put on a smart phone with the included flashlight.
If you do not have a tent, but there are a couple of cool ideas or finished projects, you want to share with the world, go to the campground forum "iVolga-2017", which will take place in Samara region from 14 to 24 of June. There you will be given a tent and properly install, so you can save some power for the rich program of the forum. Hurry, registration closes for 15 of May.
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