Before or after dark? And there are the wrecks aswell..

Gas and a ant hill..I think they whooped on that.

I always try to pitch mine before I try to sleep in it. Call me crazy, but it works for me.

I always pitch my tent first thing when I wake up.

Dogs and shamrocks for the paint can. Grin.

I seem to have a preference for when I find the best uneven, slanted, rocky, rooted ground after it begins raining.

Actually did that once on a horseback elk hunt. Got into the park an hour after dark, pulled the packs, loosed and grained the horses, started a fire, ate supper, rolled the bags out and slept. Set up the wall tents after breakfast the next morning.

We had made the mistake of pouring out the 14 piles of grain where the camp went. Pitch black night, and about 2 am I woke up to find a horse stepping over me and my brother who was sleeping a yard away. Badger, a "people horse" had come back in to check the pour sites in case anyone had missed a grain or two of oats...

I couldn't see which horse it was it was so dark, but my brother knew. "Dammit, Badger, get the hell out of camp!". He did too. Wasn't even Bob's horse, but they had hunted together before.

I liked that horse! A few days later I got a little behind and it was 0-dark-30 by the time I got back to Badger - and I was 5 miles from camp. Soon I could barely make his yellow-brown ears out, so I just looped the reins around the horn and let him take me home... he knew where the oats were.... Besides, them things see in the dark better, and I hadn't been on a horse in 19 years before this trip. Figured he was smarter than me....

I try to pitch it before I have a drink or 7.

mike r

...right over everyone's head...

Pitch a tent? I can't even pitch a base ball.

I have my people pitch the tent and set up camp before I arrive.

LOL

But Have you had your tent take off in the mild just to do, gust of wind? Something like humping snakes, next to a garden hose, grab now or shall I wait??

LoL!! Now that is funny!!

Best way to pitch a tent is from the inside.

"POP TENTING"!

I only pitch the tent where it leaks.

"Pitch the tent"????

I've been in two situations where I had to load the sucker with rocks to keep it from blowing away while I/we went out hunting.

Not to mention making the boys laying in the rain puddles inside... OK- that was only once.

What the hell- I let 'em bail.

Kawi

Is that really you that started this thread? You post actually makes sense. You're getting better. Have you stopped drinking?

A comprehensible post deserves a real reply.

I try to pitch my tent before it starts raining. More often than not, it rains in the afternoon, in the Colorado mountains. So that's when I pitch my tent.

KC

When elk and deer hunting, once we get to our camp site, we (my hunting buddy and I):
1. Set up our tipi and wood stove or smaller one man tents
2. Using our MSR Mini-works, collect about 4 or 5 gallons of water
3. Cut and/or collect enough firewood for a couple of days.
4. Scout the area we are hunting
5. Cook dinner, and have a drink or 6 and turn-in as early as possible to get ready for hunting the next day.

This schedule has worked well for us in the past and I see no reason change.

God, man, have you no sense of adventure????

Like tail-end of Pacific cyclones/broken tent poles, flooding creeks, etc???

I have no idea why my boys now in their 30s are reluctant to go "hunting" with me.... Puzzzies...

Holy crap I love it