WANTED: Your Top 5 Base Camp Tips or Hacks

[Bushwacker44]

Large water bag at camp, fill it up at night and water for the next day is filtered and ready when we wake up. Hate pumping water after getting back to camp at night.
If we are camping at the truck we bring water coolers and filter straight in. Nice having water handy and easy.

 

[Tatortot21]

Keep your “Base Camp” mobile! Be able to tear down and move in a couple of hours max so you are hunting where the animals are. Learned this after 10+ years of hunting the same base camp. Have killed 3x more elk by being mobile vice anchored in one camp.

I second this. Had to do it for the first time last year and with three of us it only took four hours to move and re set up a wall tent 30 miles away in another area. Was still able to go out for an evening hunt.

 

[919]

I’m a big fan of the Nemo Roamer camping pad, firmness is adjustable by adjusting the amount of air inside but it also has foam inside that makes it almost as comfortable as a regular mattress, but folds up easily to a packable size (smaller than a sleeping bag)

Will need to check this out. thanks

 

[Rigo]

Great tips! Thanks for the tips.

 

[Cereal Killer]

Put your gear, and stuff you don’t want to be wet in the morning, underneath a lightweight tarp so the dew doesn’t get to it.

 

[cnelk]

Back on the poop chair topic

This is what I do for base camp.

Dig a hole about 12”+ deep, put the dirt in a pile close by and place the chair over the hole. Keep the shovel at the chair.
Each time someone uses it, sprinkle a dirt in the hole.
Keeps the flies and smell down.
When full, just dig another hole and move the chair

Another tidbit is to put a piece of reflector tape on the back of the chair.
Makes it much easier to find in the dark with a headlamp

 

[HairyScandinavian]

lol that reflector tape on the poop chair definitely shows some serious outdoors experience. I love it!

 

[Conrad101st]

I wouldn’t think people would take me literally when I said shave, I guess I should specify I meant trim! Any cheap clippers work, it’s a rodeo getting the angles though lol. Yea shaving is retarded anywhere near there.

Yep, never shaved my package as that seems grossly excessive and way too metrosexual; but I do use my beard trimmer on my armpits. Makes it a breeze to use deodorant and super easy to wipe down in camp for a nightly whore bath with wet ones.

 

[Rigo]

Ultralight Portable Bidet by CuloClean

CuloClean is the portable bidet that you can plumb in your plastic bottle, fully discreet, efficient, and portable. Compatible with most plastic bottles

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culoclean

 

[OPSCWAL]

Having a piss bottle is an absolute game changer....

 

[Beendare]

It may have been mentioned but be careful where you put the tent. There is a lot of standing battle kill in Co and when the wind comes up it makes those standing dead trees dangerous. There is a reason they call them widowmakers.

We horse packed into a remote area with that beetle kill one year and my buddy were giving me shit for cutting down a couple trees where we wanted to camp- it was a lot of work.

FFWD, we got high winds one night and 7 trees fell all around us, one landing on our high line trapping one of the horses- it was a 2 am rodeo.....but none landed within 8' of the tent.

 

[dtrkyman]

I always keep mobility a high priority, when I use a tent it is a Gazelle, it takes longer to bag it than tear it down or set it up. In a pinch I have thrown it in the rig and went!

 

[midwestcowboy]

As far as food at base camp, I cook damn near everything off my lil 17" blackstone. Easy to clean (which I don't) and it's always cooked anything I've throw at it.

I go with pre-made burritos for breakfast - heats up while I'm going through my pack and getting boots on

I like prepping dinners in tupperware for the blackstone - precooked rice with raw meat and some veggies. dump it on the blackstone while you are unpacking/getting ready for bed. I don't know about anyone else, but at day's end (especially on day 5-6), I have zero energy to think about food after a long day. This makes it easy for me.

A few years ago my buddy started pre-wrapping potatoes and butter in foil. The second we'd get back to camp and start a fire he would throw 'em in. A really nice addition to dinner that fills you up and knocks ya to sleep.