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Before or after dark? And there are the wrecks aswell..
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Gas and a ant hill..I think they whooped on that.
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I always try to pitch mine before I try to sleep in it. Call me crazy, but it works for me.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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I always pitch my tent first thing when I wake up.
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Dogs and shamrocks for the paint can. Grin.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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I seem to have a preference for when I find the best uneven, slanted, rocky, rooted ground after it begins raining.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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I always pitch my tent first thing when I wake up. 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....
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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I try to pitch it before I have a drink or 7.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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I always pitch my tent first thing when I wake up. ...right over everyone's head...
The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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Pitch a tent? I can't even pitch a base ball.
BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN HIS MIGHTY POWER. ~ Ephesians 6:10
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill
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I have my people pitch the tent and set up camp before I arrive.
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...right over everyone's head...
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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??
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LoL!! Now that is funny!!
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Best way to pitch a tent is from the inside.
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I only pitch the tent where it leaks.
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"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.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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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
Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
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