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.. As #4 ,, stuffing works well , just stuff into a light dry sack such as a compactor bag or a nyloflume bag sold for UL backpacking ,, can be wet or not ... maybe pull out and spread it out to dry on a break along the way ... agree muddy groundsheet can go outside .. Agree with using a lightweight waterproof tarp for all protection or even just a cowboy camp on hot days where no tent is needed .... UL , long distance backpackers have discovered stuffing prevents the holes created by creases ,, tents and sleeping bags last much longer .. even the high dollar ,, high tech materials fail with repetitive fold creases ..
Jestem w szoku. Ostatnio właśnie o tym myślałem. Lubię i kemping i jazdę na motocyklu. I sam nie wiem , czy jadę na kemping, czy kempinguję i przez to jakdę :) USA to piękny kraj , szkoda, że nigdy go nie odwiedzę. pozdrawiam serdecznie
Świetny film ! Widzisz mój amerykański przyjacielu, jestem starszy od Ciebie i wiem dużo o lesie. W Polsce niedźwiedzie są tylko w górach, u mnie na nizinach wilki. Nie boję się ich. A pomimo to nigdy nie nocowałem w lesie, choć bardzo bym chciał. Strach jest silniejszy , wiem , że to irracjonalne. Twoje porady są super. Jeżeli lubisz czytać mam dla Ciebie propozycję : "Sekretne życie drzew" autor :Wohlleben Peter. Jeszcze napisał" Nieznane więzi natury" i "Dotknij, poczuj, zobacz" i "Duchowe życie zwierząt", na pewno Ci się spodobają te książki ! pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski
anyone trying to relax from normal life, is not going to be in that big of a hurry. I have a North face two man hiking model. have had no problem with it, but trust me if you ride with a group of people that are in that big of a hurry, find another group.
Mój przyjacielu, dlaczego nie poruszyłeś kwestii typu namiotu, który można rozbić w deszczu ! To jest priorytet, nie tylko dla mnie. pozdrawiam z Polski
Something perhaps worth mentioning is, any medication you use... it would not be good to miles from anywhere and realise you lost forgot your meds. You can easily pack a few days supply in a variety of travel medication holders, available from your local pharmacy / drugstore / healthcare outlet.
My advice is you should always pack your equipment and gear with whatever your next stop requires. When I travel by motorcycle, my belief is ... I'm not packing up from last night, I'm packing for the next stop. The first thing I do when I arrive at destination is set up my shelter .. this is usually my tarp, So then, if it's raining can set out everything else under the shelter of the tarp. I make a point of taking a siesta during the hottest part of the day whenever I'm travelling . This insures my safety because people that drive while overtired are worse than drunk drivers. Siesta time also means I can run a ridgeline and take anything that's damp and hang it to dry either under my tarp or out in the sun . This means my tarp and my hammock are always packed in a dry bag on the outside of everything else where there are easy to access This means I also have a tarp usually a cheap plastic one that I can use to layout my gear as I set up . This means you have the footprint that came with your tent and you have a small plastic tarp as well. When you pack them up, you put wet side to wet side together. This means to clean the clean sides are wrapping around your dry bag with your tent. When I'm storing my gear long-term at home, I used the stuff sack method. while traveling. I roll it up tightly and I roll it up in such a way. That the little pieces of coloured Paracord, I used to mark the head foot and door of my tent are easily found so that I can unroll and set up a tent quickly (I use little pieces of cordage that I have reflective tape in them so that I can see them with my headlamp in the dark) Your ground sheet is always going to be wet .. Very rare that it doesn't trap moisture coming up from the ground .. So you pack your tent up into a dry bag not the bag it came in .. Then you take it and the poles pegs etc and you wrap it with the plastic tarp.. and bungee it to the outside of your gear. You have your rain tarp and your hammock along with any necessary cordage tree straps pegs In a Separate dry bag. Strapped to the outside. Yes, I carry a tent and a hammock . The hammock can be used as a chair , A sheet, or a complete sleep system, which makes it worth carrying Very few people ever tell you to pack up and move along when they see you taking a nap in a hammock They see you setting up a tent they tell you to move along or ask you if you have a camping permit so your odds of camping for free are better with the hammock, especially if you've just pulled into a park or rest area or even in places where you wouldn't be expected to be resting And if a police officer/park ranger shows up "I was too tired to drive and just stopped for a nap." Has always resulted in "good idea take a rest and then be on your way" vs "well you still can't camp here go get a permit or room someplace"
Sorry but I find this irrelevant. Anybody can pack a tent in dry conditions. It is about packing our tent in rain or dew and cleaning and drying it while we pack it. My girlfriend and I learned this by ourselves in 1979 on our first motorcycle camping trip from Danmark through Deutschland, Schweiz and France to Monaco and back. Keeping your tent dry inside is what keeps you going. Otherwise you degenerate into a generation Z Hotel or B&B "adventurer".
If you have a freestanding tent, you can set up the footprint to hold the poles up, put up the rain fly, then build the tent underneath the fly - I call it the sandwich method. You can do the reverse and it maximizes the chance of your tent staying dry. If you stuff everything together it’s less useful, but I tend to strap dirty/wet things on the outside.
Thats pretty cool. All these years ive wasted trying to carefull pack my tent. Well tomorrow im stuffing it in there poles and all. Sounds great. I usually try to dry it out first but that does take good weather and at least an hour or so.
I have done what they call the best route in UK the NC500 the first time was with my 125 Super Cub and the second with my Rebel CMX1100 both not what you call adventure bikes and the only difference was what I could carry for the trip, 125 stripped down to basics to stay light and the Rebel a bit of extra comfort and larger tent but both were well up to the job , the point is to enjoy your ride and stay safe no matter what you ride.
I use a compression packing cube, keeps the tent tidy and in place. In another cube i put the rest of my sleep system, and they both fit in a 20ltr drybag. In another drybag goes 2 sleeping bags (as we are always 2 up)and the kitchen. This works great for us and only minutes to pitch/strike camp, poles are kept with my folding table strapped under my Moto bag. Just completed a tour of the Balkans and Italy, where this system worked great 😃
Many, many years ago I was camping with my Boy Scout troop. My friend woke me up by whispering my name. When I looked up the first thing I saw were big claws less than a foot from me. I froze in sheer terror, certain a bear was about to eat me. When nothing happened I dared to look up. A golden eagle was sitting right in front of me, its head tilting from side to side as it studied me. Thankfully it was curious and not hungry! It's one of the best memories of my life.
Walmart? No Walmart when I was a kid. Zodys, GemCo and sears catalog. I remember ordering my cub scout cook set and other gear through the catalog. Much nicer camp gear these days.
I stuff my sleep system/tent into one 35L duffle. Ground cloth goes separate into the dirty pannier with my camp shoes, stove, spare gas bottle, tool kit, etc. I stuff the duffle as you do, in order - sleeping bag first, then folded air mattress, fly, poles, tent - reverse order of unpacking. No stuff sacks, no hassle. Pretty fast.
I ride a Harley touring bike with hard saddle bags, so I've been using one saddle bag to stuff the tent and rain fly, then I fold up the tarp and roll it around the tent poles. I found an old carry bag from a camp chair that is the perfect size for the tarp/poles and just strap that on the top of the tour pack. Admittedly, I'm very much the opposite of minimalist camping - I use a 6 person tent that is tall enough for me to stand up in, so it takes up a lot of space.
Strapping a wet tent (parachute) onto the outside of your luggage might not be the best advice. I am guilty of doing this with socks and shoes, but anything that could foul the rear wheel, or inflate behind me....not so much! Love the channel; keep that $#!% up!
Dont be too fast to get rid of the original bags! I stuff my tent like mentioned in option 4, but i found that my original tent bag is perfect for my kitchen/cook kit and emergency ramen noodle rations.
@dookieshoes141 That's a good point because I too save every bag and find a use for it. I'm weirdly cheap in that sense 😆 but have a sleeping bag liner sack that fits a mini kitchen setup for me when I'm solo. Guilt and of using helmet bags for laundry too.
I've never had an issue returning the tent to the bag it had come with, and have even managed to roll a 2 man tent into a 1 man's bag. The rainfly and ground sheet get put on the outside of my Mosko bags if they're wet.
good video, its hits on a lot of points dork made on one his podcasts. Also I like how some footage from the dual sport grom came back. Those were my favorite dork in the road videos. I appreciated the bike even though most viewers didnt.
@checkingreality it truly was a masterpiece build and great way to prove you can ride what you want. Last year there were 2 guys riding Honda Monkies through the trails at Wailin Wayne Weekend. It was awesome.
Great info ! I love that my Mosko Duffle has built in pole pocket in the flap and just stuff my tent inside duffle and fly on outside if it gets wet :)
I mostly use a naturhike mongar 2 and i use 2 different drybags for the rainfly and the mesh inner, so you have 2 small bags to pack that ensure the inner tent is always dry and the rainfly is separated from the rest of the luggage. the ground goes inside it's little bag so it's separated from the rest. Then i pack poles and stakes outside of the luggage not to tear my inner bags
I pack my tent into a small duffel that I net down to the tail--that's also where my food and clothes go. If weather is dicey, I keep large garbage bags in my panniers, and then I have the ability to magically make my duffel bag just as waterproof as my roll-tops.
I have 2 tents for camping, a 2-person tent and a 3-person tent. I have long lost the bags they have come in and use duffel bags of the appropriate size. Everything that has to do with that tent goes in their own dedicated bag, poles, stakes, pillow and even sleeping bags. The smaller tent takes a mummy bag which packs smaller but isn't as comfortable as the larger rectangle bag which is more like a quilt but is 1/3rd larger. The 3-person tent allows me to bring in a small folding chair to sit in and is handy on rainy days. The 2-person tent I can barely sit up in and have to crawl around in. The 3-person tent seals up better and is better for cooler weather. The 2-person tent is draftier and is more suited for warmer weather. The 3-person is much more comfortable and is a plus considering I'm 67 years old and don't like to crawl around. The 3-person tent goes in a larger duffel bag, is bulkier but allows me to take things that make me more comfortable, a larger pillow, sleeping bag, an inflatable sleeping pad, a cordless battery-operated fan and an extra tarp. When I see RU-vidrs motorcycle camp sites it makes me wonder 'Did they have somebody follow them around in a truck?'
Poles separate as if doing alot of off road with vibration/corregations the rubbing will wear holes in the tent. Just came back from an outback Australia loop and the MSR tent pole bag had many significant wear holes. Luckily I had the tent separate. Pole bag was within a mosko pole bag.
