Camping Gadgets
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 |If you like spending time in nature, and you enjoy having fun in nature, but you are thinking about the utilities you will have to take with you next time you will install your tent. There are a lot of things you need when you are in a tent, in the middle of wilderness, and you might think where will you deposit or carry all of them.
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Wenger has released a new Swiss Army knife which is 9 inches long and weighs 2 pounds. It has over 85 tools, and to mention just few of them, I would say “golf shoe spike wrench, laser pointer with 300 feet range and a bike chain rivet setter. You don’t have to worry anymore that you didn’t take from home the scissors or that wrench you need for the bike, because you have almost everything you need in this set.
Travelpod offers you the comfort of your own bedroom in the middle of nature. This miracle tent features a double bed, beside tables, light, chair, pillows, a dressing table, a toilet, and all of these in an open-air bedroom design. Now you can combine the comfort of your home bed with the wilderness of the nature, and you can find this tent available for rent at $50/night at some campsites in UK.
If you want to give your trip an authentic spirit, and not spend some days in a space that looks just like your bedroom, without feeling anything special about the environment you are in, then you should try a real tent. But what do you do when you have to spend several hours to mount it, while other 7 people are starving next to you and they want the tent installed faster? Easy! You buy this innovative tent from Quechua, which comes folded and when you throw it in the air, it deploys in full form until reaching the ground. This tent is available for $83 and I think it’s a great innovation on tent market, which makes camping a lot easier.
If you are in the forest, and worrying about the toilet problem, you might solve it with a chemical toilet or with a cosy spot behind a tree, but both are quite uncomfortable and not very eco-friendly, especially the last one. You can use now a sh*tbox, which is a biodegradable toilet. The inner bags can be buried in the soil and in few days the waste will be naturally dezintegrated without nasty chemicals or other substances.
The problem of fire lighting is a stringent one when you are in a camping trip, and here comes Swedish FireSteel to solve it. Swedish FireSteel was developed by the Swedish Department of Defense, and its nearly 3,000°C spark makes fire available in any weather and at any altitude. It has been used by a lot of armies in the world and it is among the favorite camping items of a lot of experts, hunters, fishermen and campers. Many camping geeks will be so satisfied with this lighting tool and it will make easier preparing the camp fire or the barbeque, in any environment, with any conditions. When the fire is started and established, the wooden sticks can be added and the fire can be used for cooking or heating.
As you can observe there are a lot of camping gadgets which make this activity a lot easier and bring a lot of entertainment. Now it’s easier to mount the tent, to light the fire, cut the woods and protect against the wild animals. So where’s the fun? You can quit using these gadgets if you want to have a cool genuine adventure, but it would be nice also to have them in your bags, in any case.
