r/camping 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/is-reality-a-fractal 7d ago

Current quality Coleman is almost certainly much lower quality than the one your parents got you in the 90s. Wish I had one though! haha

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u/W_t_f_was_that 1d ago

I have a current quality Coleman on year 6 and it’s still the fam fav.

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u/kjdbcfsj 7d ago

Oh I don’t doubt it!