Wenzel Family Dome Tent Kodiak

The Wenzel Family Dome Tent Kodiak has room for the whole family, sleeps 9. With  its large mesh "D" style door, bay windows, picture windows, and roof for cross breeze provides all the air flow you need to stay cool on those hot summer nights. With a base size of 14 feet by 14 feet and a center height of over 7 feet it really is a home away from home.

Wenzel Biscayne Screenhouse Tent

The Wenzel Biscayne Screenhouse Tent is a must for family camping. It is more enjoyable to eat a meal with out fighting insects. With the Wenzel Biscayne Screenhouse Tent that is a thing of the past for years to come. With it’s weather armor polyester fabric, enamel coated steel frame, Durable center hub will supply years of  durability and service. It has a base size of 14' X 12' and a center height of 7' it has all the room a family needs for that camping meal. I rate this tent high on the must have list.

Gerber Blades Profile Knife Fixed Blade, With Gut Hook

With The Gerber Blades Profile Knife Fixed Blade, With Gut Hook we bring you the Profile Utility Knife. This utility knife built for comfort and durability for all the heavy usage you may come across on a hiking, backpacking or just a family camping trip, it is a rugged utility knife that you will find a new use every time you take it out. This knife features a non-slip rubber handles to ensure you have a good grip even in wet environments. It also has a titanium coated 4" blade and comes with a sturdy nylon sheath.

Slumberjack Kids +40F Sleeping Bag Woodland Block

The Slumberjack Kids +40F Sleeping Bag Woodland Block is made just like mom and dads sleeping bags just smaller. This  youth bag is filled with Slumberloft HL, which is a hypo-allergenic insulation providing warmth. The outer bag is constructed from a polyester-taffeta material that is resistant to water, while the interior is lined with a polyester material that is silky-smooth and stain resistant. The bag’s quilted construction makes it extra warm and comfortable. It also comes with a matching poly-cotton pillow. So your child will be proud to unroll it at a camp site or even a sleep over with friends, with its durable quilted construction it will probable last your child until they are ready for a full size bag. This youth size sleeping bag measures 26” x 66” and weighs 3 lbs. 4 oz.

Chinook North Star 3 Person Camping Tent is designed for the small family who wants to a backpack or even just go camping with a lightweight tent. This two-pole rectangular tents with easy-to-set-up, Large D-style doors for added ventilation with its Waterproof and very durable bathtub style floor and its waterproof flywheel with sealed seams and has a front-poled vestibule provides extra storage space for complete protection it’s designed to keep you dry. What I like is the fact center is 4 ft high and the floor is 5'7" by 6'9" with a vestibule storage area make plenty of room to roll around in a small lightweight tent weighing only 7.7 lbs. It also has the Chinook lifetime warranty for less than $70.00. Lets face it you can get a cheaper tent, but if you have ever been camping in a tent that leaks, you would be glad pay a little more for one that will keep you dry. Remember the better quality outdoor gear you have the more enjoyable the trip.

Stansport Double Mantle Propane Camping Lantern with Piezo Igniter

Everyone knows on a camping trip a reliable light source is a must. That is why the product of the day is Stansport Double Mantle Propane Camping Lantern with Piezo Igniter. With its matchless Igniter and 600 candle power output from two mantles will provide all the light your campsite needs. This lantern comes equipped with a reliable long life brass valve, piezo style igniter, silk mantles included. It comes campsite ready. For less than $50.00 all you need is a 16.4 oz. disposable propane cylinder and you have a dependable light source for your camping enjoyment.

The family Camping Trip

Well camping season is almost upon us, Its time throw the family and all the camping equipment in the car, hook onto the boat and take a trip to the lake for a weekend of somewhat leisure. The only down side it takes hours to load the car and when you get to the lake, it takes an hour or two to set up camp. That is when the leisure part comes into play. The Kids will hike all over the park. Oddly when they’re at home, they won’t walk around the block. Your family will fish, water ski, swim, get more exercise than they have had all week. Then its time for dinner there is nothing like eating food cooked on an open fire in the great outdoors. Though it’s the same food, you eat at home it just seams to taste better. At bed time you go into the tent get everybody settled in for the night and get to go to sleep hearing all the sounds of nature. After two or three days of this activity it is time to go home. Pack up the tent, roll up the sleeping bags you get the idea. It always seams to take longer to pack up camp then it did to set it up, Im not sure why. The only question  IS IT WORTH IT ALL the answer is by all means YES.  Be it at the lake or on a hiking trail there is no better quality time spent as a family than in the great outdoors. In short get out there.  It’s a wonderful place to be.

Optimus Crux Lite, Backpack Camping Stove

As anyone who backpack camps knows size and weight matters. The Optimus Crux Lite Backpack Camping Stove is the perfect backpacking stove, its light weight and compact size fits easily into a backpack. Equipped with a powerful burner with an output of  10200 BTU, add the fact that it only weighs 2.5 oz’s makes this stove quite practical for the packer in all of us. I like things that are inexpensive with high level of quality that is why I featured this stove today.

Ultralight Backpacking and Hiking Skeeter Hammock

Ultralight Backpacking and Hiking Skeeter Hammock is the ideal Hammock for that camping trip when it is too hot to sleep in a tent. Weighting only 20 ounces with a 250 lbs capacity it is a backpackers dream. With it’s Durable nylon blend very fine mosquito netting this hammocks keep the pests out, including mosquitoes and black flies, so you can get a good night sleep. With it’s open air flow and double-sided zipper that runs the length of the hammock allows for easy access to get in or out. The best way I can think of to sleep on a hot night in peace.

Camp Fire Tips

Have you ever been on a camping trip and all the wood was damp or green you just couldn’t get a fire started. If you are like most people you have a bag of charcoal that you planned to use to cook those burgers, take a handful of charcoal place it in the bottom of the fire pit place some small pieces of wood over them and fire them up. In just a few moments it will make a bed of hot charcoal that will dry the wood and you will have a roaring fire in no time.

Chinook Twin Peaks Guide 6 Person Plus, Fiberglass

This blog is a product review for The Chinook Twin Peaks Guide 6 Person Plus Tent with Fiberglass Poles. This is a really cool tent.  It has two rooms one with room large enough to sleep six, with an attached screen room large enough for a small picnic table. If you wish there is a removable snapin floor that goes in the screen area so it can be used it for an extra sleeping area. The only problem I see is the floor in the screen room does not completely seal, but in dry condition it would work well. This tent is waterproof not just water resistence. It has an extra long rain fly to keep rain well away from the tent floor and body, it also has Chinooks lifetime warranty. Just a few of the cool features of this tent is listed below.

-Tent has plenty of headroom with peaks that are 6'6" high
-Quick and easy set-up
-Overall size 142 ft2
-3 season tent

In short this is a nice tent for family outings and quite possibly the last tent the user will ever have to buy. I understand this is only my opinion, but if you saw this tent I think you would agree.