Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Truth! This would have been one (much more) sorry night without a tent
As it was I spent a couple of hours in the bathroom. When the crash precedes the flash of lightning, I go looking for a harder structure.
I have spent more than one night sleeping on picnic tables under hard shelters during storms. My single biggest concern is thunderstorms. I got caught hiking one weekend using my large piece of poly as my only shelter. Had a monster set of storms roll through late at night, had to get off the ridge I was on, not an experience that I want to repeat. The other was camping in a pine forest during an ice storm.
Aaron
