Camping – Flung

Packing for a Camping Trip: How To Do It Right

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:26:54 +0000

I’ll confess that I didn’t start camping in any real way until I got together with my boyfriend seven years ago. Our first weekend trip together involved Vermont, some marital nuptials (not ours), and a pleasantly creaky B&B. Our second, a few weeks later, took us to a campsite upstate on the shore of Mongaup Pond. It seems to be that second trip that stuck, and our life since then could be read as a slow but constant accumulation of […]

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Everything You Need for Perfect Bell Tent Decor

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:46:21 +0000

This post was updated in April 2024. Last summer, my boyfriend and I plunged headfirst into the world of bell tent ownership. You can read about our first trip with our new tent here, where you’ll also find a photo gallery of the tent and everything in it. I couldn’t recommend the bell tent more for the way it elevates a camping trip. A big part of the joy of bell tent camping, at least for me, comes from fulfilling […]

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Camping Better: A Bell Tent Adventure

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:56:41 +0000

Throughout my twenties, I went camping every so often, always the tag-along of someone who had all the gear. It was usually for just a night, somewhere within a couple hours of New York City by car. When I met my now-boyfriend of six years, the tag-along scenario became a more permanent one, and I gradually began contributing to the enormous box in the basement full of tents and camping showers and folding chairs and battery-powered lights. Along with building […]

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How To Put Up a Bell Tent

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:22:06 +0000

Getting a bell tent can be daunting, not least because of the assembly of the thing. Bell tents are large–enormous compared to the nylon number you’ve probably used in the past, and there are so many stakes and pieces of rope involved. In reality, though, I found the bell tent we bought recently easier to put up than a typical nylon tent. It’s a two-person job, thanks mostly just to the weight of the thing–our 4-meter-diameter bell tent clocks in at 50 […]

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