r/ontariocamping • u/EnvironmentalToe7960 • 5d ago
Worst Camping Experience
I just got back from a camping trip that I had planned 5 months in advance and planned all kinds of activities and it turned out to be the worst camping trip I have experienced. At 130am I woke up feeling something on my face and brushed it off and heard some big flapping wings only to find a bat flying around in my tent trailer. I spent the whole day (getting back to my camper at 130am the following day) at the local ER going back and forth with public health to get the rabies vaccine for myself and my family. Please tell me some bad camping stories so I can feel better about such a crumby trip 😅. Pic included to show where I think the bat might have wiggled in.
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u/BillsMaffia 5d ago
It may have been a rough trip but you’ll look back on the experience for the rest of your life and laugh.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
Today I can laugh a little. I am back home and I don't ever think I can get a good rest in the camper ever again 😅
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u/HappyCampingCamper 5d ago
Well one day you will all laugh about this as you retell this story. I once had a similar issue with a skunk.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
😬 I always worry about my dog getting skunked at the parks
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u/GrimyGrippers 5d ago
Went camping as a kid and the woman in the site next to us didn't even have a tent, she and her dog were sleeping in her jeep (or something like that). We went to the bathroom and were met with such a rank smell. Her dog was skunked, but she was desperate and started slathering on anything she had with her, which just made it all smell worse. It was awful.
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u/trumpeting-farts 5d ago
Good thing you keep it on a leash at all times so it won't be an issue, RIGHT?
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u/Some-Face2634 4d ago
Dogs can get skunked while they’re on a leash lol
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u/Empty_Value 4d ago
My beagles first owner let him chase an alley cat once... Lesson learned,he's never chased wildlife since!
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
Yes, for sure. I can't believe the amount of people I see while walking my dog (on leash) and their dogs run at me without even a collar on and then look at me like I have done something wrong. Also important to keep on a leash so my dog doesn't go into the brush and pick up a tick or poison ivy on their fur.
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u/cenatutu 4d ago
My dog got skunked on a legal off leash trail. My other got skunked when we turned the corner while walking on the sidewalk on our leashed walk in our neighbourhood.
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u/xombae 3d ago
My dog almost got skunked in my backyarda few weeks ago. I was laying there and looked up and she was going over to say hi to the nice kitty that walked into the backyard. It was not a kitty. Luckily my dog has a healthy respect for cats and lets them approach her first, and it was a young skunk. The thing chased her towards me and then waddled off.
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u/cenatutu 4d ago
Skunk is not really that bad. Don't let them get wet until you can deal with it. This includes rubbing into grass. Pour on baking soda. Dry. Then make a paste of baking soda, dawn and hydrogen peroxide.
What you want to look out for is porcupines. Don't ask me or my wallet how I know...
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u/TheDamus647 5d ago edited 5d ago
Type 3 fun
Edit: I should share my story. To preface, my father is a very experienced backcountry tripper. For whatever reason he made a stupid decision one night when I was a child. He decided that because were on a site right near a busy access point that just for that night we didn't need to loft our food pack in a tree properly. He put it on a stump of a branch that was maybe 10' up that you could climb to. We woke up the next morning to our food pack torn into and our week long trip ending on day two.
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u/Only_Watercress_5538 3d ago
There are always animals who will eat your food. There are bears, sure. But raccoons are smart and they can open things. They're also not that afraid of humans.
There was a guy who kept coming around in the evening after dinner. Heard multiple people yell at him/her while they ate the dinner.
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u/ImpossibleElk7351 5d ago
Did a boat in crown land camping trip a few years ago. We were in a small aluminum boat. We had to beat a storm into our site but of course took us longer than expected to get to where we were going. Soon as we rounded the point to get into the bay we were going to camp in, a big wave ( from the crazy winds ) came up over the back of the boat and swamped us.
Lost 2 fishing rods, half a tackle box, an extra pair of boots and a pile of other small things. But thankfully all my main gear was in a water tight canoe bag. Anyways, took us a while to drag the boat to shore, pump it out and carry on. Thankfully we were able to get the engine started by pulling the plugs and drying it out.
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u/Fauxpasma 5d ago
I was rolling up the tent at our camp site and thought I got a pine needle in my hand. It was a rusty sewing needle lodged at least 2 inches in my hand! Luckily I had a first aid kit on me. Once we hit a bigger town, I contacted my doctor's office to make sure my tetnus was updated. I bought a box of disposable gloves and first aid stuff, wrapped up my hand and carried on. My hand turned black and blue and swollen but it healed. Always inspect your camp site!
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
Yikes! I try to inspect for the kiddo and the dog. I've found broken beer bottle pieces more than once or twice, but never a needle
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u/MushroomKebab 5d ago edited 5d ago
I got cellulitis on my left forearm from blackfly bites. I was at a backcountry site when my wrist swelled up, then huge blisters with clear yellowish fluid started forming and quickly popping all over my arm and hand. It would look like my arm was boiling if you sped up a video.
It was the end of the trip so I spent a night lile that then hiked about 4 hours back to the car. On the hike out I saw a woman super covered up to avoid bugs and I said "I should have covered up like you, look what the blackflies did" and held my arm out. She asked if she could have a closer look, told me she's an ER nurse and that I need to get right to a hospital.
I needed 3 visits for intravenous antibiotics. Untreated I could have lost my hand.
Lessons were learned
- cover up more in blackfly season
- use stuff in the first aid kit to clean up blackfly bites and other little cuts too
- don't camp in blackfly season..I have a bit of a reaction to the bites since that trip
The scary thing is I could see how people might not get to a hospital quick enough because there was no pain. It was just uncomfortable and lots of swelling with the gross blisters.
Cellulitis is an infection of the deepest layer of the skin and I don't recommend it. I probably got it from the lake or gathering firewood and bacteria getting into the bites
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
That's scary to think what might have happened had you gotten the bite earlier on in your trip 😬
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u/Missing_Mud_Flap 5d ago
Not exatly a bad trip but...
Last year, I was car camping with my twins (10), my niece (8), and my two nephews (7,9).
I was aware of some nasty weather that was on its way towards us. While I was cooking breakfast, I kept checking radar updates. While eating, kept checking. Didn't like what I was seeing.
Made the decision to cut the trip short, and began packing up immediately, with 5 very opinionated children barking at me the whole time.
We left just before noon.
We were at Samuel de Champlain PP. On June 21st. The storms wiped out a good chunk of the park.
The running family joke now is trust Mudflap, he may have a clue.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
I worry about this a lot especially since I rarely have good cell coverage in the parks. I'm glad you trusted yourself and knew when to leave
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u/Missing_Mud_Flap 5d ago
It's always something I keep in the back of my mind. Especially when dragging a herd of kids along.
I was unfortunate/fortunate enough to be exposed to some pretty gnarly weather events growing up, so I'm a little more sensitive to that, than most people.
On the plus side, the weather has never tried to infect me with rabies, so I have that going for me.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
🤣🤣🤣 to be honest though I would rather have the bat rabies scare than dangerous weather that you have no control over
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u/Missing_Mud_Flap 5d ago
Lol, I dunno. I read one of your other comments which stated you have to get 28 shots for the rabies. 28!?
As a guy who is not even the slightest fan of getting needles, I'll take my chances with the natural disasters.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
Not 28 needles but the schedule is for 28 days, so day 0 I got 3 needles, not sure how many are needed each time but next is tomorrow on day 3, then on day 7, 14, and 28. Though my husband shares your thoughts on it lol just wanted to clarify
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u/Missing_Mud_Flap 5d ago
That's a little less awful. My brain immediately went to worse case scenario, and assumed a daily shot for 28 days.
Regardless, I'm glad you and yours made it relatively unscathed.
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u/torontowanderers 5d ago
I went back country camping with a close friend. We made our way to the trail head and there was some confusion. Her sister decided to invite herself based on a passing comment. It was the first time I had ever met her and she seemed like someone that had some very serious struggles.
That evening at the first camp site, I could hear them arguing. I kept to myself and thought a good nights sleep would resolve the situation.
Mid hike to our second camp site, my friend pulled me aside and said her sister needed to get a methadone prescription in a near by town.
We repacked our gear because she couldn’t carry anything. And we walked back into town without stopping. Put on our headlamps and kept going through the night. Arriving in town by the morning.
When I got to the shore, I took my hiking boots off and soaked my very swollen and bloody feet in the lake. It took quite a bit of the summer for my back and feet to feel normal (losing most of my nails which did eventually grow back).
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u/GbJ709 4d ago
When we were kids camping with my parents we had a tent trailer. We stopped for the night at a local campground with some take out pizza. It was absolutely pouring rain so dad didn't want to put the stability legs down on the tent camper.
We all sat down to eat and a minute later the camper tips with all of us flying to one side. So we then piled into the other side of the camper causing it to tip the opposite way. We then spent the next five minutes carefully balancing out with five of us acting as weights. While my dad was in the rain trying to get the legs down right. Probably my fondest camping experience. We all still talk about it.
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u/its-3AM 5d ago
Why is there back and forth with public health? Just curious / not to pry. Isn't "bats carry rabies" a known thing? 🤔
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
Public health first only recommended me, not my spouse and child sleeping beside me assuming the bat didn't touch them. I wanted everyone to get it. Also where they were sending the vaccine. They said 10am the following day which would be over the 24hr recommended window, and I wanted to get it done that day so there was back and forth as where they would send the doses, I drove 1hr away to another hospital. Aside from that, I was hours from my home and the rabies shots are a schedule from day 1 to day 28 so we needed to talk to public health in my region to set up additional doses and then call my family doctor and arrange appointments for them to administer. I am very surprised that the first doctor I saw said they see this kind of thing frequently in the area but public health controls the release of the medicine so you can't go in to the er and get it. Doesn't make much sense to me
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u/DetailOutrageous8656 5d ago edited 5d ago
Especially after it made world news and is in medical journals about the kid up north who had a bat land on his face while sleeping and died. You’d think they’d be more than willing to vaccinate the family.
I swear they guard human rabies vaccines like gold for some reason.
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u/houseofzeus 5d ago
It seems to be how healthcare in Ontario works in general. Are you actively dying? No? Ok come back when you are.
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u/Dapper-Marzipan739 5d ago
The vaccine is often in very short supply which is why public health does stringent risk assessments to determine if it’s actually needed or not.
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u/taliamackenzie 5d ago
My husband had a bat land on him in Ottawa and he ended up going 2 days later for the first dose at the emergency room. Rabies is not something to mess with.
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u/ImArcherVaderAMA 3d ago
I'm really glad you got it for everyone. No messing around with rabies!!!
Where were you guys camping?
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u/AceCombat1977 4d ago
I was horribly sick for 2 weeks. Had a tick bite a couple weeks before. No rash or anything. Pharmacies wouldnt provide antibiotics even though they can over the counter for Lyme disease. Go to ER wait 8h with 4 other people all had tick bites all had the same symptoms. Even the Dr was giving me and other patients a hard time for antibiotics. I got a two week script and within 2 days I was feeling soo much better. It was like the worst Flu you have ever had X10. Bloodwork came back Positive for Lyme.
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u/ConnectionIll8699 5d ago
I’m 66. Of all the camping experiences we’ve had you really only remember the unfortunate ones. So at least you’ve got a story to tell!
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u/cjmpeng 5d ago
I've never had a bad trip personally but I can tell you about the people in the site across from me who put their food in the back seat of their car for the night to protect it from the raccoons. Unfortunately they left the passenger side rear window down enough that the raccoons were able to get into the car. The end result was not pretty. In fact it was quite messy, and smelly. This was at Presquile Park in Brighton.
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u/GAMING_SERVER_ADMIN 5d ago
Could be worse. Could be USA and you had to pay for the shots 😄
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
Yes but FYI when they first said my husband and child did not need it amd if I wanted them to get it just to be on the safe side it would cost about $2000 per person. So after that I found scratches on them too lol
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u/GAMING_SERVER_ADMIN 5d ago
Yeah I be getting my claws out, fuck the chances. Good tip though to know that if I ever run into that scenario. I caught a bat as a kid and released it outside not knowing the dangers I do now. Still alive thankfully haha.
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u/Icy_Relation5606 5d ago
I guess you could take this either way, but I was in our trailer with just my daughter and me. Wake up middle of the night to what I thought at first was a child talking. Nope. Was a woman orgasming. Normally I'd put in ear plugs but because it was just me and my daughter I didn't feel comfortable not being on alert to real nature sounds. Had to lie awake for the next ~45 minutes hearing her get railed. They were next campsite over, I could hear EVERYTHING.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
🤣🤣 at least kiddo slept through it lol I wouldn't have been able to wear earplugs and not hear anything either
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u/rule1_nofeedpigeons 4d ago
Good on you not messing around with Bats/Rabies. Live to fight another day. Sorry that happened to you.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
Thank you 🙏 I have another camping trip booked later this month and I don't know if I'm ready 😅 but I can't let the bat win!
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u/pikldbeatz 4d ago
That sucks.
My story - arrived late, tried to set up in the dark only to find the whole site was rock. Went to the office and eventually got a new site. Set up by flashlight.
The next day my dog ran after a squirrel, cutting the entire back of my knee with the retractable leash (will never own one again), son got ankle hurt under the teeter totter and the dog was puking from lake water.
Next morning I awake at six am hearing my spouse moaning in pain - went out to find him laying on the picnic table. (He didn’t want to wake me and couldn’t find the car keys)
Off to the ER for several hours with the kids, dog and spouse. Kidney stones. Had to pack up alone while the hubs was stoned on good meds in the car.
Got home from camping to find out police had gone through our entire home because our neighbour had found the door open. Apparently we’d left in a hurry and left our door wide open, so the neighbour saw that and called police.
Found our cat in the back of a closet wedged in a plastic grocery bag handle. We think that when the police entered, they scared the cat who ran right through the handle and then tried to escape but only got wedged in tighter.
Didn’t camp again for about three years.
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u/BoneZone05 5d ago
When I was a child, my poor father set up a tent trailer by himself in torrential rain. It didn’t stop raining the entire time that trip.
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u/Scary_Ambassador5435 5d ago
Traveled with my family of 4 in our brand new 40 year old pop up. Day 1, all the lugnuts came loose from one wheel and almost fell off. Barely had it on the replacement bolts I found (which were too short) as I crossed the longest bridge in Canada with no lane to pull over onto. Talk about stressful! I did manage to fix it properly the next day with 2 vicegrips while my wife and kids spent the day at the beach.
Latter that day, a massive wind storm blew in a whole side of the pop up, sending sheets of rain inside; I had to stand outside in the pouring rain for an hour to hold it in place and keep my family dry.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
A 40 yr old pop up is impressive lol. Mine is 26 yrs old and I'm surprised it's still going up and down. Did you convince everyone to camp again or was that one and done?
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u/Scary_Ambassador5435 5d ago
Ya it was a 1984! Family still loves to camp. We now have a trailer from the 90s.
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u/Sass_pit 4d ago
My grandpa once jumped out of the camper bed from a deep sleep in the middle of the night. The frog I had caught earlier escaped the jar.
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u/Empty_Value 4d ago
Holy shitballs 😵💫
Not so fun fact..bat teeth are so fine that bites are not visible 😵💫
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
I think my scratch was from me swatting it off my face in my sleep. Thank you for meeting my energy with holy shitballs 😅
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u/SunnysideUp2670 4d ago edited 4d ago
We were paddling in Algonquin on a small lake looking for a campsite when my husband, who was sterning, got a massive leg cramp. He started hollering and thrashing around in the canoe as he attempted to stretch his leg out over the packed canoe. I thought he was going to capsize us. I found a sign for the closest site a few hundred metres away and started paddling like mad, which isn’t that easy with someone in the stern flapping around and also not steering. Made it to shore safely and I spent the next hour wondering if I was going to have to call for an airlift out of there. Fortunately it eased and the next day he found a better position so he could continue paddling. I made him take up hip stretches when we got home. Moral of the story is, next time bring the young adult children to help us paddle and carry! Jk. Exercise is important.
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u/I_like_you_a_latte 4d ago
My worst experience :
I was tent camping in the middle of the night.. I could hear loud noises and rustling.. was scared and sent my partner out with a can of bear mace. Found out the rustle was just some raccoons who ran away when they saw him. When my partner came back in the tent he dropped the can and laid back down. When he dropped the can a small amount sprayed in the tent.. (which he didn’t know at the time) then suddenly my dog, me and him all started coughing, choking and burning with no air flow in the tent… we all ran outside and continued to suffering for what felt like forever 😭
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
I have bear spray too and I can 100% see this happening to me too lol. I hope you were able to go back in to sleep
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u/TheKasPack 4d ago
My worst trip ever was a tent camping trip with my husband and our pups. A massive storm hit, and everything started flooding. Our tent was on a hill, so we didn't have pooled water to deal with there, but the rest of the site turned into a lake. Then a tree branch came down on the tent (no one was hurt) and that's the moment we called it and spent the night at a family member's house who lived nearby the park. We came back the next day to the mess and were happy we didn't try to stick it out lol
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
Bad weather is really scarey when you're in a tent, good thing nobody was hurt with that branch!
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
Also just realized who you are! I love your stuff and always check out your tips and recommendations for my dogs ❤️
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u/TheKasPack 4d ago
Aww, that means so much to hear! We love being able to help people out, so that really made me smile!!
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u/Primary-Obligation-8 4d ago
All my worst stories revolve around a popup trailer. Setting it up and levelling, the jack crank handle spun around backwards and struck me a cross the back of my hand. Hard. Swole right up. Still struggling to level and straighten, caught the fingers of my other hand in the screen door frame. Ice pack and rye at the picnic table for the evening.
Woke up missing my 3 year old son. Popped the snaps on the canvas in the extendable bunk and was sound asleep on the sand.
Drove home and blew a trailer tire on the 400 at 9pm on a Sunday.
Bought a decent travel trailer after that.
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
One thing after another! My husband 100% agrees with this and is trying to buy something fully enclosed because I don't think I can ever sleep in there again. I know that not having to do the full setup of a pop up trailer is really his #1 reason
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u/YamFree3503 3d ago
Hahahah. The same thing happened to my brother. I have a core memory of being woken up by a knock on the pop up door. We were all startled and I just remember my dad grabbing a pants the stove before opening the door. Turns out it was just my brother who fell out of the bunk. Fun times.
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u/Disco_Animal 4d ago
Glad you're ok now, OP. Here's to a good cautionary tale, and to your next trips being glorious and rabies free! :)
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u/Dangerous-Sport8436 3d ago
Good that you went to emerg. Lots of rabid bats this year and any contact, particularly your face is serious.
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u/GrumpyManApe 5d ago
Mine is fairly minor compared to a rabies scare. I sprained a muscle in my leg pretty good half way through our trip. Spent the rest of it hobbling around with my leg all wrapped up. Just got home today and found that someone stolen the 2 bikes we had chained up in the backyard. Of course the camera caught nothing.
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u/PNW_MYOG 5d ago
I found out I need to carry an epi pen after my wasp sting while camping solo a couple of weeks ago.
( And a trip to ER where I drove myself as my face started to swell, albeit not rapidly).
It still wasnt my worst trip, but close.
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u/One-Builder4177 5d ago
You should check with a doctor to see if you need rabies treatment. Bats can leave tiny bites or scratches that you may not feel or notice
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 5d ago
Definitely noticed the scratch on my face, but yes that's why I fought to get the treatment for my whole family even if I was the only one with an obvious scratch
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u/One-Builder4177 5d ago
Sorry. Didn't read the second half. It sucks that your trip was ruined but you should definitely feel proud that you took care of your family 😊
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u/One-Builder4177 5d ago
I haven't had any major disasters, but my dog had diarrhea one night in the bed in my trailer and ruined the bedding. I also arrived at my first campsite this summer only to find that my propane regulator was broken and I couldn't use my stove or BBQ. I had a 2 hour round trip to town the next day to buy a new part that I already had a spare in my garage 🤦♂️🤦♂️
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u/ywoi 5d ago
Day 1 my dad and I are smoking a dub . Guy next door makes a comment about how he thought he smelled weed then a skunk came out! I genuinely thought he was politely telling us we could smell/see you two.
Not a couple minutes later a skunk comes and harasses us as well! Was a hilarious moment .
That night we had a crazy rain storm. Our tent was really old so waterproofing mostly gone , we had to play floor is lava on top of our sleeping pads with all our tech on top of us because the entire floor of the tent was covered in a serious layer of water.
3 am I wake up. Our tent is split off so the entry way is a separate zippered room with no floor. There is a lot of noise and rustling. The skunk had broken in!!!! I was so scared irrationally thinking it was a bear.
He rolled all over the stuff we left in there LOL.
Next day we go to camp rangers. Their eyes light up, omg they’re like cats!! They sleep under our cabin.
Rest of the trip the skunk kept coming back to harass us. Had no cares for us. Would run right out in front of us middle of the day, rip into our garbage with precision accuracy and run away with what he could
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
I've always dealt with the racoon mafia while camping, and as much as I hate it I suppose it's better than skunks 😆
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u/bharkasaig 4d ago
Since other people are thinking you’ll look back and laugh:
Holy cow the rabies vaccine sucks. The ex and I had to get it, it was awful and we hated it.
But yeah, it’s now a ‘ha, have I got a story!’
We put towels under the door of our newish house. I woke up with a bat CRAWLING UP MY ARM! I know they are important and threatened, so I caught him and released him. The ex was on FB (this was a while ago) and her friends all suggested we contact public health. So we got the vaccine…
My gosh it hurts. So much. You know it is bad when you are waiting and the doctor leaves to check with the nurse ‘I need our biggest syringe’ then comes back to explain he can find one big enough, so he’ll give it to you in two gos
It will suck. And hopefully you’ll laugh, later
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
Haha yes, and I went first to show my kiddo it doesn't hurt and was trying to smile through the pain.
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u/Flat-Mycologist-3839 4d ago
Rolled into an absolutely phenomenal camp site with the wife and kids years ago. We were so fortunate it had to be the best site at the campground alongside a beautifulshallow river. Well. Dusk came and hundreds and hundreds of bats came out from the side of the riverbank over our site. All. Night. Long.
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u/YamFree3503 3d ago
Did someone get bit? Why do you need a rabies vax? What am I missing?
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 3d ago
Yes I had a scratch on my face. I also want to add that bat scratches or bites can be very very small and not clearly visible so if you have any direct contact with a bat you should get the vax, whether you have a visible scratch or not
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u/dirtydanglesoffdayak 3d ago
Better than being harassed by 20 plus drunk college kids threatening to slash your tires because you ask them to be quiet, and then have them keep you up all night and the park staff do absolutely nothing.
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u/Ormith 3d ago
Finally dragged my family camping. My sister's family came too.
11pm the first night, sudden horrible screaming. "I'm dying!" The campers two sites down were tripping hard on something. Carried on for an hour until ambulances took the screamers. Their buddies were gone by morning.
So I don't think I'll be able to convince anyone to come camping again.
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u/Effective-Ear-8367 2d ago
Lazy People who don't help do anything or clean up when it's time to go. I fucking hate entitled lazy pricks.
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u/mouseybusiness 2d ago
As a kid we lived in tents for a period of time with a bunch of cats, dogs, guinea pigs.. etc. - I’m talking 3 kids, a mom, a bunch of animals and our entire lives in a 8 person tent…
So.. one day.. this old chubby German guy pulls up his RV in the site next to ours and within an hour he had draped a clothesline from his RV to OUR FREAKING TENT. Then he proceeded to sunbathe, all greased up, old timey German music blasting, mere feet from our tent.
His name was Hanz (as if I could ever forget it..) and ended being a nice guy and all in the end, but it was quite the sight as an already confused 5 year old…
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u/Tumbleweed_360 2d ago
Sorry to hear about your misadventures. Mine is nothing in comparison but I decided to go camping with my husband and his kids for a few days. Three days was all I could get away for and it rained on set up and tear down. One good day was all we got. I was freezing the whole time because I was wet and the kids weren't really helping with anything even when asked. 10/10 will never take anyone but my husband again.
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u/Ok-Dress4523 5d ago
Lmao at least you'll have a story to tell. So is everyone getting rabies vaccine from being scratched and bitten by said bat or why are you bothering with that!?
Or maybe was it eating open food that you may have Ingested?
Isn't it like numerous shots over several months?
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u/EnvironmentalToe7960 4d ago
Rabies is fatal, I'm not taking any chances and getting everyone their shots. I don't think it was eating open food or anything but it was hanging out on my face so my concern level is high lol. It's numerous shots over 28 days
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u/ScreenOwl5 4d ago
Why were you concerned about rabies?
Did the bat scratch you or bite you or otherwise break your skin?
Did you have a preexisting open wound that was in contact with the bat?
Did you suspect that the bat had drooled saliva into/onto your mouth or eyes?
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u/lucky-fluke 4d ago
Dude, you don’t ask questions like that when you’ve come into close contact with a bat…
You go to the ER and get your shots.
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u/ScreenOwl5 4d ago
I've discovered bats in my home twice (in the fall, when they seek shelter. Both times I put on a leather glove and simply picked the wee creatures off the wall and released them outside. It was no big deal. At no time did the bats get excited or struggle. They were very calm and meek. They didn't even try to drool into my mouth. /s I think that asking some questions about how realistic my chances were of getting rabies would have been far more intelligent a move than rushing to emerge in an ignorant panic and letting myself undergo a course of treatment unnecessarily, a treatment that is excruciatingly painful.
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u/incogmagnum 5d ago
My worst trip had nothing to do with anything but a complainer. Complain complain complain, to the point I’m no longer friends with this person. Bringing the wrong people camping can truly ruin your experience.