Step 0. Research your own stuff first and also please be more careful and sharpen your sense in life. So many ppl doesnt care about stuff. It makes me sad. Like.. billions of humans😢
I was camping in Switzerland and in the night it rained and the lake came up flooding my campsite. As the sun came up I saw that a whole bunch of little frogs had climbed up onto my tent. From the inside I could see their little feet and tummies stuck to the tent fabric. Super cute.
Military training also teaches you to put your bed above ground in the tent and always be mindful of where your tent will be, never at the bottom of a slope, be like obi and have the high ground
@Vespyr_ If the flooding is shallow like that, nothing is going to happen, if its quicksand and you have the misfortune of getting trapped in it, you are done. Many people perished because they got stuck and unable to get out, because you really really need someone else and huge help to break free.
@@POLARTTYRTM First, the alleged dangers of quicksand have been thoroughly debunked countless times, second, even if it was quicksand, they would have noticed in the time it takes to set up the tent and moved their campsite. Third, hypothermia is far more dangerous than quicksand.
@@Dargonhuman it has been "debunked", yes, tell that to all the people who perished in it. A flood that is a few centimeters deep won't hurt anyone. Also, quicksand can dry and turn into quicksand once wet again. You can totally battle hypothermia off, now you won't escape something where you need external help to even breathe.
@@POLARTTYRTM You really need to go educate yourself on how unlikely it is to die of quicksand. Of all the things that you can die of while hiking, quicksand is at the bottom of every single list - you're more likely to get eaten alive by fire ants than you are to even see quicksand.
I always setup on top of a pile of wood detritus that I make sure is sturdy (I dig it into the ground first). Much easier to prevent this particular issue, among others.
i used to be at scouts and last year, i remember i was at a summer camp and i had brought one of those heavy duty inflatable matteresses. it ended up raining so much that the campsite was pretty much a river and i woke up floating inside of the tent absolutely no joke
The best thing to do in this situation is unzip your tent, get out some food, and wave it around. Soon, a bear will smell it and come into your tent for a snack. When this happens, you simply zip up the tent, curl up with a nice warm bear and go back to sleep free from worry about hypothermia.
something that people don't talk about much with tenting is that if the air humidity gets to high (which is very likely inside a tent when it's even somewhat hot and raining) you can get pneumonia, this is a very real danger in fact my mom got pneumonia from being in a tent (which is why i know about this) people don't take infections from humidity seriously enough, you can get pneumonia by just being in the amazon rainforest on particularly hot and wet days, this is especially a risk for people with asthma or other immunocompromising health problems
It also helps to, you know, scan your surrounding terrain to make sure you're not setting up in a depression or channel where water from higher ground will run down and flow.
I was set up in a designated spot when I woke up to see ripples on the floor of my $30 Sears tent. The floor was remarkably waterproof. It seems the entire campground was draining through my designated spot. I was in 3 or 4 inches of water. I pulled everything out of the tent, moved about 15ft, put on some dry socks, and went back to sleep. Just lucky I guess. I've been on trips under rain unbroken for days. After while you get used to it.
That happened to us at the Wisconsin Dells once, during a heavy rain. Fortunately, we were camped on the side of the hill, so the water came down, under our tent, and kept right on going.
Here’s what I do to avoid that scenario: 1. Find a slope that is comfortable to sleep on, but no steep enough for your tent to slide down, maybe a 5-25 degree incline. 2. Set up tent after putting heavy duty tarp underneath. NOTE: DO NOT use a tarp bigger then the base of your tent. Water will catch on it and slide underneath your tent with is not fun. 3. Sleep with your head on the higher side of the tent. After doing these, water should flow downhill so this won’t happen.
Someone went out camping and got attacked by something that ended up with the thing looking like slenderman and the story goes that person is still missing and wasn't found
Digging a trench around a tent is pretty basic field craft, yet so few actually do it. A sign that no one does boy/girl scouts or camping (properly) anymore.
@@ICCUWANSIUT No? That's the whole point of a hammock. You put it high enough that the water on the ground won't get you and you can also put a tarp over top of your hammock to stay completely dry. If you don't have a tarp, almost all camping hammocks are waterproof so you're still dry...
The real nightmare is hungry nocturnal predators, sudden extreme weather events, and the Hills Have Eyes-Americans out in some parts. I only go truck camping these days.
Tents have always fascinated me. You’re pitching what’s essentially a giant tarp to use as shelter. I’ll stick with my apartment with actually sturdy framework made of wood, steel, and whatnot.
Houses and apartments really aren't that structurally sound "seeming" either when you look at it - if you're in the US, most houses are wood-frame with OSB sheeting on one side, literally 2x4s and plywood that are given rigidity by the roof and load-bearing internal structures. Some highrises literally suspend their floors with many cables. A rubberized tarp separates just as well as wood against nature's greater forces.
When you out a ground tarp underneath your tent Tuck it beneath a few inches from the edge of the tent, so that water doesnt collect on the tarp and goes under your tent, it wont work in flooding conditions (obviously) but in normal rain it well prevent it.
Haha yeah, tent position and trenching is important. I'm actually quite impressed by those floor seams, doesn't look to be a bathtub construction and those seams are tight! It should be noted, or perhaps just emphasized more since you did mention it, Even if the inside of the tent is dry being in contact with water still massively accelerates heat loss due to it's relatively monumental specific energy. The colder floor will still condense the moisture you are exhaling, so even if the tent itself isn't leaking you might wake up in a puddle.
While in the army in the field I was sleeping on a cot in the tent, woke up because my ass was wet and looked around saw everyones uniforms floating about the same height as my cot.
This happened to me. Even though I had a small hole in the bottom of mine. Needless to say my tent flooded with about an inch of water. Everything was salvaged though 🙏
Nah bro the LITTLE KID backpackers worst nightmare is when they cant hold 2 waterbottles and then they gotta put one in the backpack, but while your taking it off, you feel the bottom of your backpack soaked to the core. Pure nightmare in my experience
Happened to my group once as we were camping. Some kid set up their tent on lower ground - long story short they got an inch of rain In their tent. Good thing they had an air mattress though but it had a leak so throughout the night we heard pumping sounds as he was inflating his mat to keep himself from sinking into the water 😂😂.....good times...good times
I honestly thought it was mud until I saw the tent bounce back up when he pushed on it. Terrifying, I would cry. Mainly because I hate backpacking and bugs and forests and shit but also I cannot swim and I'm terrified of getting water splashed in my face.
That's not so scary to me. For me, there was an early morning tornado coming toward where my ex and I were camping with friends. He and I wound up doing the DUMBEST thing ever and staying inside our tent with all of our stuff, hoping the tornado and straight line winds would miss the area and that we wouldn't become airborne. When we were finally confident that the danger had passed, we stepped out of the tent and checked everything out only to realize just how lucky we had been. The 2 lines that we always attach to the top of the tent to trees had snapped. All of our corkscrew tent anchor spikes had come up and were missing. His car had barely been missed by a tree and a variety of debris, including other people's tents, grills, and camp chairs. We found out that there was a small tornado that occurred just ¼ mile away from us. It had touched down in a corn field and pretty much moved away from where we were camping. Somehow, we didn't even get any of the debris (corn) that it ripped out of that field. No hail, either, even though the main road and ditches were just full of it.
You need to get the tent up off of the ground..like he said build a platform..I've been camping since the age of ten..I've got some bushcrafting experience I'm no master at it..
Rain isn't actually a big deal when backpacking if you know what you are doing, the biggest fault here is that this person didn't set up their tent in a spot where water would flow away from the tent instead of piling under it
My dumbass read that as "This is every backpack's worst nightmare" My brain immediately went to that backpack from Dora and I was wondering wtf she did to traumatize the poor bag 💀
*Pin this comment to make people aware of another scenario that can cause death 📌* There are marsh pits that look like a flat plot of land that’ll be good for camping, but in reality after an hour or so you will start sinking. There not very common but still look out for them
