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Are there supposed to be these tiny holes in my tent?

First time camping since going with my dad when I was 7. I got a second hand tent off marketplace that the guy said had been used only once.

Pitched the tent pretty much in the dark so I didn't notice this last night but this morning I've woken up and seen heaps (like, thousands) of tiny pinholes of light coming in. It actually looks quite cool, like a night sky.

It lightly rained all night (I couldn't sleep for most of it, lol) and I've been dry the whole time. My concern is if it rains more heavily it might not be dry?

Also it's slightly wet on the inside of the shell (roof?), so I'm not really sure how to go about packing it up.

u/MghtyMrphnPwrRngrs — 5 days ago
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First time camping alone was scary

I’m a 22 yo girl and a goal of mine this year was to do at least one night solo camp. I slept with my flashlight on and my knife open. I couldn’t start a fire. My food wasn’t cooked all the way so I didn’t eat much. I slept in my car which I typically do. I was too scared to get out to pee in the middle of the night so I held it. I woke up every hour unable to relax until the sun came up.
Unfortunately I’ve been listening to a lot of scary podcasts recently and I was camping in the Appalachians of Virginia. The campground was full, families around me. I wasn’t scared of people I was scared of the woods
Now that I did it once I am satisfied but I would like to try again. Just maybe not in the mountains

u/drwolffe — 8 days ago
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Current state it this subreddit

Can we chill with the reposts? This is way out of hand - did the mods get paid off by Skurka to look the other way or what??

The same posts are getting recycled hours apart, turning the sub into a karma farm instead of a place for original shitposts.

This sub used to be funny as fuck because people actually made new content. Now it's just reposts, low effort garbage (looking at you 10lb North Face tent guy) and Durston bot agents slowly killing the jerk. We can do better than this nonsense.

u/drwolffe — 23 days ago
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Stupid colors ultralite hiking footwear

Found the perfect fit hiking shoes at REI today! But being ultralite trail runners, they were dainty feminine colors with pale colored soles. Checked online, there were other colors, but just as fruity, some with white soles! White!

Nature is not a tennis court! Trails are muddy, you slop through creeks, dirty gravel, dusty rocks, algae, lichens, grass stains, etc. Not that we're actually wearing these shoes outside but we want them to look like you could hypothetically wear them outside. You don't want pricey hiking shoes to look beat snd stained their first time out of the box. Why can't they make ultralite hiking shoes practical colors like, you know, like nature: olive, brown, dark greys?

Merrel does make the same shoes in black but black is sold out everywhere, apparently because ultralite gear experts aren't stupid.

End of rant. Sorry. Carry on, carry on......

(oops, one more thing, besides soles needing to be dark colors, so should the toe. And the toe should be capped with rubber, cause when you're hypothetically scrambling up and down boulders or picking your way through rocks, the first thing to get scratched up is the toe of the shoe. Don't they think we want to look like we do that sort of stuff?)

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u/drwolffe — 3 months ago
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Correct Counter Assault bear spray holster setup

Is this the correct way to use the strap? The loop fits a bit iffy and I am worried about accidentally setting it off

u/drwolffe — 3 months ago
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Tent collapsed in high winds

Camped on the coast and had a very early wake up call when the wind picked up and took down one of my poles. Had to hold it down with a log. Not a fun experience. Probably my fault but I think I may get a freestanding tent instead.

u/drwolffe — 3 months ago