What are your best/worst experiences while camping, while either willingly or unwillingly being in a harmful and dangerous environment.
Does the fact that I forgot to put a question mark mean that I'm gonna immediately die in said conditions?
Had a Summer SERE course in the military (sort of introduction to SERE).Fell in a creek while evading captors. Had to construct shelter in a swamp with only a feet of paracord. >No gear except for a steel helmet, a set of cheap BDU and bouillon's cube. AND NO BUG NETBugs and insects ate me for the whole night giving me multiple infected bite areas and swollen eyes. Coudln't even sleep. Because the mud from earlier attracted more bugs. Finally finish training some 24hrs later and drank 6pack of beer and fell asleep.
>>2859793I've camped in 100mph winds on Mt Rainier.
>>2860018That windchill must've been insane.
Rode a flat 30 miles in the dark with no food in remote WVA on a Forest Service road that hadn't been used in years. Not very dangerous, just sucked.
-26°F outside, was +40° in an igloo with a single small candleI also got caught directly in a microburst lightning/wind/rain storm on a lake peninsula at 4am once. Was in a hammock, the wind came in really weird and ripped the rain tarp stakes out and I woke up to a torrential downpour and what could easily be confused with a hurricane/tornado type environment that lasted for 10-15 minutes.
>>2859977What is SERE? Search and Rescue?
>>2859793I once had to go camping with my brother-in-law's drunk father. It really was the worst conditions you could imagine.
Did the Cold Weather Leader's Course with the Army in Black Rapids AK. Part of the course involves a 6 day field exercise where you stay outside, camp in a hot tent, build a snow shelter, and move around on the side of a mountain. Temps got down to 56 below zero while we were out there, got mild frostbite on my fingertips because I took too long to take a dump out there. Had to hide it because if cadre found you with a cold weather injury, you'd get pulled from the course. It averaged about 35 below zero every day and wind dropped it further.Really wasn't the worst camping experience I've had but as far as extreme weather/conditions, it was pretty crazy. During the land navigation test we got hit with a storm which was almost whiteout conditions.
I regularly camp during hurricanes in FL because you gotta book camps well in advance and I book camps during the season and I don't watch news so I would never know there was a hurricane brewing.
