Slopeside
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- First Name
- Brent
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- Dec 14, 2018
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- Denver, Colorado
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- 2018 Jeep JLU Sport S
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Is it just me or has overlanding become an excuse for people to justify spending thousands of dollars on gear they don't truly need?
I just call it car camping and have done it all my life with multi-week trips ranging from the deserts of Utah/Arizona, the remote inland lakes of Ontario, the Tetons in the winter months, and all throughout Colorado.
At no point did I say to myself, "Wow, I really needed this $1,000 fridge in my car." Ever heard of dry ice?
I would say 10/10 times I go car camping, I would never choose to set up my tent where I park my car. Sure some RTTs set and pack up faster than my ground tent but it never takes me more than 5 minutes to do either so save that argument.
Storage systems I get, there's true utility there.
Yes there are use cases for all of these products, yes they are cool, and yes they make life easier, and some people truly may need them but what happened to camping for the sake of roughing it? Am I the only one that thinks this?
I just call it car camping and have done it all my life with multi-week trips ranging from the deserts of Utah/Arizona, the remote inland lakes of Ontario, the Tetons in the winter months, and all throughout Colorado.
At no point did I say to myself, "Wow, I really needed this $1,000 fridge in my car." Ever heard of dry ice?
I would say 10/10 times I go car camping, I would never choose to set up my tent where I park my car. Sure some RTTs set and pack up faster than my ground tent but it never takes me more than 5 minutes to do either so save that argument.
Storage systems I get, there's true utility there.
Yes there are use cases for all of these products, yes they are cool, and yes they make life easier, and some people truly may need them but what happened to camping for the sake of roughing it? Am I the only one that thinks this?
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