 I've never taken alcohol with me on a camping trip, but I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm the exception rather than the rule. Certainly the idea of something to sip in the tent at night is quite alluring, so maybe I'll try it. How about y'all?
Also, if you do take it then what do you carry it in? Hip flasks look v. heavy. Water bottle - plasticky taste? Hmmm??
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 When I use to cycle tour I use to often carry a little of whatever was the local firewater,slivovica,scnapps etc,etc for the evening and in my water bottle use to have wine/water sugar mixture sometimes...not very wise really,I sometimes wonder how I managed to cycle-tour so much without any serious crashes.
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 Hip flask for brandy, and you can put wine in a platypus. However, when Julie adn I wild camped it looked more like a blood transfusion unit since it was red wine, and we had the platypus suspended from the roof of the tent!
In general though, if I have the car, yes, there will be booze in my crate. If I'm wild camping, probably just the hip flask. (Unless it's a special occasion - I carried a bottle of wine and one of champagne up Snowdon on New Year's Eve!)
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 I carry a small bottle of scotch when wild camping in scotland. Its good to make me forget how bloody hungry I am due to my enforced ultralight backpacking regime.
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 A litre of wine per evening in a screw-topped platypus - no aftertaste. The reservoir can be used for spare water transport afetrwards while one lot of puritabs are fizzing.
When car-camping we take a 3l winebox...
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I take a hip flask with me on all camping trips. The contents depend on whatever tickles my fancy when I'm leaving home. Very nice to have a wee drink while enjoying the sunset during a high-level wildcamp*
Michael S
*insert usual disclaimer about 'enjoying alcohol sensibly' here
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Sensibly? I may add that the 3l winebox is for a multi-day trip and for sharing :o)
The 1l per night is between two
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 a beer or some rum goes down nicely
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PW ! I'm rather suspicious about your trail mix - What's in it !
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 Two nights at a bothy,one bottle of Bailie Nicol Jarvie,four tins Red Death(McEwans Export)have to point out that was between two of us!!!!
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 Just reminded me of one of my first "alcohol induced illnesses", on a patrol camp with the Scouts. Between three of us we downed two bottles of Thunderbirds and three cans of Skol. I went home the next day :( Mother was not amused.
More recently I've limited myself to a hip flask of dark rum.
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It sounds as though I've been missing out! Wine in Platypus is a brilliant idea, and I think I may try it this very weekend :-) First I'll need a Platypus, though.
Malcolm - trail mix - yum! Fruit steeped in brandy, Smarties, salted peanuts! :-)
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 Like a good tipple - normally whisky. Carry it in the smallest Sigg bottle available. Find it most enjoyable having a wee nip out in the hills. Sigh.
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I invariably don't take it with me. I buy it when I get there. I have never "wild camped" but quite frankly, an evening without something to enhance the sunset or keep out the cold, would be to miss out out on one of life's more elegant pleasures.
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 Alcohol whilst camping is another part of the 'relax, unwind' thing. Why not? Alcohol on the hill? Surely no. Its asking for trouble. Its asking for people to fall over, its asking for hypothermia and its asking for beer cans and broken glass shoved in the cracks at every rest stop.
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And as for a 'nip' keeping out the cold, it doesn't. It just feels like it does. Alcohol causes more blood to flow near the surface of the skin, which increases heat loss. Giving alcohol to someone on the verge of hypothermia is the best way to push them over the edge. Use your head
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 Peewiglet, do bears s**t in the woods.
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 I wouldn't give any of my whisky to someone with hypothermia, I want all for me.
Jolly nice it is too.
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Getting pissed whilst camping is, on the other hand, extremely dangerous. It can result in waking up outside the tent, on top of the tent, or even in the wrong tent, with or without clothing, some of which may not be your own. There are also far more scary things which are likely to set fire to you, fall on you, collapse around you, or suffocate you at campsites.
It also leads you to believe that you are "being very quiet" when actually you've kept the whole site awake all night with your inane giggling and 100 decibel "shoooosh" noises.
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