Camping and wind breakers? Why?

[lisad123]

Sitting here onsite looking about there are now quite a few campers with wind breakers all around. Im not talking one up to shield cookers and BBQ but shutting themselves away with 2-3 breakers :(
Why do they do it? It feels like we are losing the community feel.
What do you think?

I use them to keep ds2 fenced in.

They are only low and we are always chatting over them to our fellow campers anyway.

We were squashed into our pitch at Trevornick, despite choosing one that would fit our tent easily. Next door's tent had decided to put their guy ropes over the white dividing line and had put a pup tent onto their pitch too - and a swingball so they could play it at 2am after several ciders. If that makes me judgy then so be it.

It was just not for us - an expensive lesson learnt deciding what type of site we liked. The beach and the local area were great,just not the overcrowded site.

We stayed in a euro tent there.I meant the windbreak judging not the site judging anyway.

ahh the eurotents were up at the top of the site weren't they? windbreaks are a very divisive issue amongst campers.

Oh no, I couldn't care less if other people have a windbreak. I don't expect them to want to socialise anyway, if they don't want to.

We have friends who bring one sometimes and it does indeed stop the wind - very useful!

I never knew windbreaks were so controversial

I find windbreaks interfere with my noseying people watching. Ours stayed packed this weekend as there was no wind and it was nice to watch the world go by and nosey in other tents!

We do have one but only use it when it's properly windy and I need to cook in it's shelter.

It's also a pain in the arse to put up, I can never get the guy ropes right!

We did however use the windbreak for privacy at Cromer last summer because we were crammed in like sardines but it was all more spacious this weekend so was lovely.

How exactly does a windbreak pen in toddlers? d would have needed an electrified chain link fence.

I didn't know they were controversial either. After our last very windy camping trip, we bought one to break the wind

caerlaverock I agree, nothing other than her own set of guy ropes, firmly fixed with delta pegs, would have kept dd from shooting off in random directions at every opportunity.
A windbreak would have had no hope.

It was v windy last weekend, we did try (and fail) to put up a windbreak to hide behind while we ate as plates were blowing across the campsite.

I don't think one or two to break wind while you are cooking are controversial. It is massive ones or several different ones placed in a three sided square round the front of your tent to create a big garden area which is controversial. Or as sometimes happens, around a group of tents to create a massive private area.

Some people think it is anti-social and a bit anti-the whole camping ethos, I guess. Personally, I got put off that sort of arrangement when we used to camp at a certain site which shall be nameless and the long stay units would always have elaborate windbreak arrangements surrounding a "garden" with trampolines and old sofas and even once a rather hissy goose which we had to sprint past to get to the loos. That added to the ambience of the site.

That said, we invested in our one when we woke up in our tiny 2 man tent on a French site to find a tent pitched with its door a couple of feet from ours. It was like they were scared of being alone.

Ohh sorry OP, I missed where you said it's about people bringing many, not just one or two. In that case, yes it does seem a bit odd. Not to mention, how do they find the space in the car what with all the other palavar you have to pack?!