Tent Camping Mishaps

[Mandy]

I thought I would start a thread about mishaps while camping in tents. I was camping with our church youth group at a nearby lake. The youth pastors were sleeping in a trailer and we had a tent set up for the girls and one for the guys. We borrowed my dad's tent and it was the first time I had set it up unassisted. I did not have the top pulled taunt, it started raining and water started collecting and weighing down the top of the tent. The girls ended up sleeping in the church bus. Then the boys' tent sprung a leak and they ended up on the bus. It was a trip I will never forget.

[campclose]

Wow, that sounds like a fun camping trip! I bet the kids all had a ball still! We have had our tent fall on us but we never got soaked. I bet it's a trip they won't forget either!

[2coastcamper]

Once I was beach camping, and in the middle of the night ... Gale Force winds. Our tent was smashed flat against our faces. We managed to struggle through the night, getting some sleep. We were the only ones weighing the tent down ... our tent stakes didn't stand a chance. At about 5 a.m., my buddy got up to go to the bathroom and that was the end. The tent got all twisted up, and we were never able to recover. Needless to say, we got an early start to that day.