#177 – Tent
Posted on January 26, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
The last time I went camping I felt like I was going to die from exhaustion. My friend and I went on a hike to get a better view of some water birds. We were sure that just around this next curve we’ll get this great view. Just around the corner turned into 10 miles. We were completely unprepared for it. Blistering sun and no shade. Luckily we did have a lot of water with us. We made it through by fantasizing what we were going to do when we got back to the car. We decided that we wanted to go swimming in a Mountain Dew Slurpee machine.
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That happened once.
When I was stationed in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri…my tent collapsed twice, from the weight of the snow, haha. It was great.
i was camping one day, and forgot the stakes… but i thought o well with my weight in it i can’t be blow away by the wind.
but i was wrong when i woke up next morning i was lying 10 meters of my camping spot o/
you go chris ^^
At least he can go camping at all, whenever I go outside during summer my face swells like a baloon and my voice turns into a hoarse sqeak. Acursed hayfever.
I spent a miserable year at Camp Lost-in-the-Woods one Febuary, Didn’t have my tent collapse, but I did end up walking 5 miles in the snow at night for some insipid reason.
Ashe? how do you sqeeze a year into a month?
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Thank you Adam. I just found out about it. I know it’s a cliche but it does feel good to be nominated. 🙂
My tent once rolled over for a good half hour. It was a blast. We took it back up to the top of the hill and rolled it down again. It was like tobogganing, but without snow all over your clothes. Keep up the great work Chris!
So…Biff is a bioweapon…lives on a non-linear space/time continuum…and he is a tree-dweller.
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Is he even a mammal?
I feel Biff’s pain! I used to be in scouting, and on one camp out, one of the tents tried to blow away in the wind!
I remember when I was at a boy scout jamboree when I was a little scrat. It was being held on the side of an extremely large hill on a windy and rainy weekend.
So, to the point. Some kid from one of the other troops must have forgotten to tie his tent down because we saw a bunch of people running after it, with him in it, as it went tumbling down the hillside after a strong gust.
But poor biff, he has it much much worse.
I have a question, Im trying to figure out exactly what the caption meant…did he get blown away or did he decide cause he thought his tent might blow away to camp in a tree instead to gain protection from the foilage?
He got blown into the tree while he was sleeping. 🙂
Biff took so long to errect his tent , the patch of acorns grew around him.
You mean it’s not always windy and rainy in Virginia, where they hold the National Jamboree?
Eh. I never had the opportunity to go…
There was this one time I went camping in the snow, and woke up to find the tent had collapsed…and gone sideways…
I thought I had fallen into the bottom of a 20-odd-foot riverbed. I was almost disappointed to discover that the tent only collapsed due to the snow buildup.
I Laugh at you! LOL
Dude… That’s a good thing! It’s a treehouse now! Biff needs to hang a little sign outside that says “No Girls Allowed” and just sneer.
Ah, L-i-t-W… I never want to go back.
Siire, every time I went to the national jambo (well, both times) I spent more time directing the tenderfoots in the reconstruction of our mess shelter and supply tent than I did going ’round to the events.
Of course, that’s when it wasn’t so muddy that even with a groundcloth and a well made tent bottom, you weren’t rolling out of your cot to ankle-deep mud. 😀
Wow. Makes spending an excruciating week in un-air-conditioned classrooms and dorms at the very aptly named NOAC (No A/C) sound pleasant.
Gah. 05 Jambo almost killed me. The heat was horrible- and it was a DRY heat. It could at least have been humid.
That and Mr. President not showing up when he was supposed to…
But I can see that happening. XD
Biff > WIN
Leonard Wood is best in the freezing cold. Particularly when the wind pushes it from a nice -10 Fahrenheit to a much nicer -35…and you are doing a pt-test in your t-shirt and shorts 😛
Very enjoyable, I tell you for a fact.
My sister wanted a tent. My mom was too protective. She ended up camping indoors.
O.o… I never thought my own weight wasn’t enough for a tent to not to be blown away by the wind, until I read all the stories on this panel…
I neve thought that camping was that dangerous xD…
along the same lines as actually staking the tent, never set up in moss, i know its soft and makes a rather nice bed, but i once had my tent fly into a lake because of the wind, luckily i was there to see it and the canoe was close by.
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I saw my brother reading Biff so I looked it up to check it out, I love it and I’ve showed my mum a bunch, she loves Biff and thinks he’s hilarious.
I must say I’ve never had such an adventure while camping but on a camp with my youth group one of the leaders tents collapsed and she just slept with it as a blanket, she didn’t know it had fallen until she got up in the morning.
~God Bless~
~Kimbo~
Heh, three of us were supposed to go on a 20 mile hike one time. Well, one of my friends-the one that was supposed to bring most of the water-didn’t show up. So me, and my other friend started the hike alone with less than a liter of regular water each. (I also had some home-made kool-aid/energy powder drink…..In 20/20 hindsight, not so much a bright idea.)
Well, to start it off, we happened to begin the trail at the most inconvenient entrance. Most of the hike was uphill. Then near the 15-ish mile mark, we decide that maybe we should have gotten some water beforehand. So we look at a map, and see a little trail that was supposed to be about .02 miles long. Literally “just over the hill”. So we go off the main trail that we’ve been following all day, and go up this ‘hill’ (At the time ‘mountain’ seemed more sufficient.) then had about 2 miles of trail at the top. That was flat so it would have been easy, except there was an infestation of pine beetles a few years back, and they cut down a lot of trees, then never came back and picked them up. So we had to climb all over these downed trees.
Cut to about 5-10 miles after that, we arrived at lake. (We had already come off the mountain by this time….And had completely lost any form of a trail) We think that we know the area that is on the other side of this massive lake, so we walk around it, only to find that no, we still don’t know where we are. BUT, we have found people! WHOO-HOO! So we get watter from this family and chill out for about an hour. (Later, I would realize that I started to water gouge here.) Then, rested, we got directions on how to get back to where I parked. (Turn at the main road and walk around 2 miles.)
We took a small trail to the main road, and I asked, “Did he said take a right, or a left?” My friend assured me that he said ‘right’, so we went right. After passing the fifth green mile marker, and seeing nothing that looked familiar, we decided to turn around. After walking about 10 miles, we finally got back to the truck. Of course on the way home, I had to pull over about 7 times to throw up. (Remember the water gorging?)
In the end we went roughly 50 miles!
my idea of camping is staying in a hotel that doesn’t have room service =P
On the bright side though, he has good cell phone reception!
Brilliant! I do things like this on purpose!
I’ve always wanted a tree house. Now I just want to make a house inside of a tree.
Ya know…Something akin to this happened to me.
I went camping with some friends. Unfortunatley, i neglected to put stakes into my tent. We went off for a walk. When we returned, ymt ent was stuck in some foliage twenty yards away.
Fun fun.
I’ve been in a tent in a windy storm, but never achieved actual flight.
I haven’t experienced this. My worst camp experiance was at a day camp and that was because it had a billion mosquitoes which seemed to be starved. I can generally not get bitten a lot but at Camp Clover *shudder* I had about 20 mosquito bites for weeks….
Closest thing to actual camping I’ve done is set up a tent in a camp ground with a bunch of junk food nearby a beach. Fun fun compared to what Biff and most people are probebly doing for camping. Poor Biff.
It’s a kind of elfish thing to camp on top of a tree. 😀 But an elf would probably be intelligent enough to know what tent stakes are for, so no.
CAMPER!!!!!
,,,was he blown up into the tree? I always thought he went up there on purpose to KEEP from getting blown away!
This is probably my third reading of the archives, and I’ve only been reading for a few months!
I will never understand what goes through his mind ;p
# Iethloc Says:
Is he even a mammal?
Yes, I think he’s a mammal. No, I don’t think he’s human.
I love camping and hiking.
A mate and I went camping out on a hill side one night. It was very windy, so when we were packing up in the morning, seeing that the tent was already a bit destroyed, we went hang gliding with it.
It was fun and abit scary.
I have once seen a tent flying high in the air. It must have been at least 50 meters from the ground. This was caused by a little tornado. You could even see stuff flying off from the tent, for example rucksacks. That was first and only time I have seen something like that.
Oh! He’s an android!
Android – human shaped automaton constructed from biological components.
“Biff decides to build a more permanent treehouse.”
If it’s a really strong wind, tent stakes won’t do it. You gotta stack large rocks on top of the tent poles.
I’ve learned this the hard way a few times.
Actually, this Canada Day we all went to my Grandma’s cottage. There were so many of us that she needed to set up tents outside. At 3am I awoke to a screams outside my window. I turned on the light and looked outside. Three tents had blown up against the side of the cottage, occupants and all.
I actually had a tent blow by my apartment once… Made a fair bit of racket as it scraped along the siding. Quite astonishing too, as my apartment is on the third floor…
Some tent tips: 1. Check the ground to be sure you aren’t setting up on an ant mound or ground wasp nest. 2. You can use a pile of leaves under the tent floor for a cushion. 3. Stake down ALL the loops, not just the corners, and it’s okay to add extra string to tie up to nearby trees. 4. Try to choose a live evergreen type tree to pitch near, or between two is better. 5. Do not pitch tent near or under dead trees. 6. Do not choose that nice, smooth sandy place between the rough pieces of ground — that’s where rain water washes down the trail.