I wonder if the camping topic should be expanded?

[SlubberKongWubba]

To include outdoorsy stuff too, like walking, proper walking with walking boots on and an OS map in your extremely goretex coat that has an OS map pocket. Maybe climbing too (not that I'm a climber) and other outside activities and kit that don't quite fit into sport and exercise or a holiday as such.

See I want to ask about proper walking sandals, you know with hearty straps and anti fungal properties. I can't ask in style and beauty, or in sport, the dog people were helpful on the wellies front but I,m not sure sandals comes under the jurisdiction of dogs.

Products makes me think of micro fibre mops.

It could make this topic could be a bit more exciting and happening through the winter months when it gets a bit sad and quiet. We could discuss circular walks in the lake district and dry stone walls.

What do you think?

where are you engelburt?

Am liking this thread.

Any outdoors topic would have to clearly labelled to warn off the bunting and fairy lights brigade

Stout boots, thick woolly socks and unflattering shorts or will the high tech kevlar and goretex stuff get a look in?

Yes, dangling= climbing, ropes, karabiners, all that stuff. The people you see on a walk who have spent all day getting up a rock face you just walked around on the path, because it is a VDiff. Way too much standing around IME.

But climbers would be welcome in the Outdoor Pursuits topic, of course

are their any climbers on mn? are their fingers not too incredibly strong to type. they go through life smashing up keyboards with their muscular digits.

i used to work with someone who had a little hand exercise machine

DB loving that mental image

Eleison-if you have such a campsite faux pas in your past your need to be here more often-ask Slubber about correct pegging and guying of tents...time well spent

Now you see, I equate stout boots and hand knitted woollen socks with the Featherdown Farm camping style (v expensive and twee)

Bunting and bell tents=barefoot hiking and wild swimming

Gortex=Slubber's utility tent and us Cobbites

A clan name? You have to have a clan name?! But if that makes all the equipment failure and incompetance ok, I will find one.

My ds climbs a lot. I love climbers. They are a perfect merger of surf dude and hardy bobble-hatted anorakists.

Has anyone mentioned wicking yet?

ok seashells. Will do. I would hide from you all on the campsite but perhaps I can bluff it out here.

Climbers are alright until they wake you by getting up at 4am. Also they are always the noisiest group in the pub.

No don't hide! I'm the one in the campsite who may have a well pitched tent thanks to dh, but that everyone steers clear of because with have an unruly toddler who I am seriously considering pegging on a lead with the dog next trip, I got so fed of of retrieving him last summer

Ah, you see I'm an accidental "aiming for a square, end up with a trapezoid" type knitter. Socks are aspirational.

gaitors - essential in hot weather when wearing shorts and walking through spiky grass, low bush and nettles.

I've got a friend who is going to teach me how not to drop stitches :)

knit your own socks, only one step away from knitting your own lentils, surely?

much more practical than mohair.

Full marks for organic!

Great name by the way. Would I have "known" you as something else last summer?

Oh oh oh. Craft excellence and camping competance all on the one thread. You are definitely scary people that I would have to hide from in rl.

I made a pom pom the other day though.

I think we might have a split coming up, Feminist Campers v Good Tentkeeping. Feminsts get a bit twitchy about the domestic crafts...

I have forgotten how to knit, but my dds are learning rather enthusiastically. I helped dd1 make a scarf for her teddy. Between us, dropping and gaining stitches, we gave the scarf an impressive set of breasts. So the teddy can wear it as bra or scarf or both.