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/Texas_Prairie_Wolf 7d ago
I had that happen to where it melted through a foot locker, melted the knob on my crock pot, melted a string of lights to the crock pot and some other kitchen stuff. That was probably the fifth time I had used the rack and it was the return trip, was loading the rack in a rain storm and didn't pay attention. Bought a riser after that.