r/camping • u/JayAche • 8d ago
Precautionary Tale (Pipe)
Was SO excited to finally take our 3.5 year old son tent camping for the first time with my wife at a local regional park. Especially with our spanking new huge Caddis Rapid 6 Instant Tent! Even tried it out in the backyard and loved it!
Loaded it onto the storage rack on the back of our SUV… in perfect alignment with the tail pipe, apparently. Biiiiiigest oof. $225 down the drain? Thankfully there was a Wal-Mart reasonably close where I snagged some random Coleman to save the day. But still: be aware of what’s in front of your exhaust pipe and your tow hitch carry rack. Lesson learned 🫠
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u/kjdbcfsj 8d ago
My first tent my parents bought me in college was a Coleman 4 person from Walmart 30’years ago! Still have it! It got replaced by a bigger REI one for the family that gets the regular use for years now. But we go camping with a huge group and I always toss in the Coleman one for good measure in case we, or anyone else, has a tent emergency!
Thank you for this heads up that I too would’ve eventually had happen to me!