Is it normal to feel like death after spending one night in a tent and to come home early as you cant face being that cold ever ever again?

[mrshess]

Hi i have just got back from a camping trip with my family and i feel like death. I have got a terrible sore throat brought on by feeling so cold last night even though we had sleeping bags,quilts and mats down.
Does anyone actually sleep in a tent?
Everytime i have been in a tent i am awake just waiting for morning as it seems so light. I expect a bad back in the morning but to feel so rough you want to come home does anyone ever feel like this? or am i just a wimp
What am i doing wrong as i so want to get into camping.

maybe you were just coming down with something
just bad timing?

Earplugs, eye masks, more wine, more quilts, better mattress/airbeds and remember - the first night is always the worst. You do all the hard work of lugging everything there and setting up, only to take it all down the next day... stay longer next time?

One night camping is too much hard work for not much reward IMO. you have to take the same amount of clobber for 1 night as 10 nights (except clothes). I always used to find the first night I would lay there in the tent thinking Why Exactly Am I doing this??? after the first night I would get into the swing of it. Hope you do too next time .

You are normally so tired after 1st night that you sleep the next.

I always wake early, but our double sleeping bag is soo cozy we always get hot!

Hope you have more luck next time.

First night ALWAYS awful, don't just do one night.

Too much hard work for one night! Think camping; think layers!! Don't wait in the evening to feel cold before putting a layer on!!

I love sleeping in a tent!!

Oh God yes totally normal, happens every time.

Camping is for freaks

Agree by the 2nd night you're so shattered and sleep deprived you sleep better

I think it was unusually cold last night. I was at a friends house, up later than usual and absolutely freezing when I got in.

Yep, bloody freezing last night.
I told DH that I am not going camping again this morning to which he replied "You said that last time"
It has taken me most of today, a hot bath and a huge plate of shepherds pie to warm up.

We camped in East Sussex this weekend, and I burned the tips of all the fingers on my left hand in the fire just before I was about to go to bed last night. I drugged up with everything I could find in the toddler-emergency medicine stash (i.e. Neurofen), and kept dipping my hand in a bowl of cold water all night...

I didn't feel the cold at all, but not sure weather you want to go to those extremes.

It was freezing yesterday evening where we were camping too - it was blowiung a gale. But I was toasty in bed - are you sure you have the right sort of bedding? Or maybe it was even colder where you were?

It was bloody freezing last night - had the heating on in the house so really wouldn't have wanted to be in a tent.

Handy hint - get some knitted fuggs and wear as slippers from about two hours before sunset, and keep your socks on at night. Warm feet make a huuuge difference ime.

Buy decent quality sleeping bags. We went away at May bank holiday and it was feezing (1 degree one night!) and I was amazingly snug in my nice new outwell sleeping bag. bro and wife were frozen in their cheap argos sleeping bags despite extra layers of clothes blankets etc.

and drink wine, lots of it, always sleep well in the tent but not sure I have ever got in it entirely sober

Where on earth were you- we were in Cheddar and despite being a reynauds sufferer I was somewhat unusually warm (don't even ask about second night- brrr)

Blanket under bed to insulate against cold coming up through SIG; woolies over PJ's and socks; good qaulity sleeping bag.

I was snug as a bug camping this weekend. Would have been great if th ebaby hadn't woken me

Whats wrong with a holiday cottage ?
You can get some good deals at the moment or just dont go.

The only place we camp is in our garden LOL

Three words- hot water bottle!! And if you think June is cold try camping in January! That was cold!

We camped this weekend and the evenings were freezing. I was sat outside the tent with 4 fleeces on and a blanket over my knees - but once in bed I was toasty warm. You need a 3 season sleeping bag, fluffy jim jams, socks and you'll be fine. The thermometer on the car said 6 degrees - in June . Its nice and warm now tho

Air bed, pillow, hat, fleece and good sleeping bag.

Plus a generous slug of damson gin before you go to sleep.

I discovered that last one whilst camping in the Lakes last Easter... works a treat.

That's camping for you. Why I never go camping.

You need lots of clothes, esp socks, & if you sleep on an airbed (coldest thing in the world in the middle of the night) it needs a duvet or a camping mat between it & the ground.

Oooh and fleece blankets.

Camping is wonderful, especially for children (good for their parents too, who might get to read a book in peace while they play with all of their new friends)

You just need to be prepared.

My tip is not to get cold as it gets to the evening.
When it starts getting chillier, pop into the tent and put your jamas on under your clothes. Then you'll stay toasty (amazing the difference the double layer of trousers makes) and wont have to take all your clothes off when getting changed for bed. And even in the middle of summer take warm hats, gloves and scarves.