I’ve recently gotten involved with a Trail Life troop (similar to Boy Scouts) and am looking for some equipment suggestions:
Dining fly. Just need a tarp to pitch over our cooking and/or eating area with room underneath for about 8 people. If we have more kids, I’d probably just pitch more than one fly. What tarps have you guys used for this? Is my best bet to just get simple 12x12 tarps and rig them up as high a-frames?
Tents. We’ve got some Ascend tents that I’m not a big fan of, I’d like to move to something a little more burly. I already seriously injured one of these tents on our first trip out. I’m leaning toward 2 man tents, but maybe 3 man tents (for two campers) is the smarter way to go?
What are some other essentials you guys have seen a need for with scouting troops? We’ve got quite a bit of fairly cheap, fragile, bulky gear now, but I’d like to upgrade most of it as the troop grows. One issue we already had was transporting it all, so I’m especially interested in efficiency both in packed volume and what we’re actually setting up at a given campsite.
Dining fly. Just need a tarp to pitch over our cooking and/or eating area with room underneath for about 8 people. If we have more kids, I’d probably just pitch more than one fly. What tarps have you guys used for this? Is my best bet to just get simple 12x12 tarps and rig them up as high a-frames?
Tents. We’ve got some Ascend tents that I’m not a big fan of, I’d like to move to something a little more burly. I already seriously injured one of these tents on our first trip out. I’m leaning toward 2 man tents, but maybe 3 man tents (for two campers) is the smarter way to go?
What are some other essentials you guys have seen a need for with scouting troops? We’ve got quite a bit of fairly cheap, fragile, bulky gear now, but I’d like to upgrade most of it as the troop grows. One issue we already had was transporting it all, so I’m especially interested in efficiency both in packed volume and what we’re actually setting up at a given campsite.