Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
This coming summer I plan to camp in thorn country, I expect to bring the regular footprint along even though it adds a lot of weight, I want the extra protection for the floor on this trip.
Obviously that is your choice and your gear, habits, and choice of sites may well be different, but for me I have found that to be unnecessary and I question whether it would even do much good for the following reasons:
- Having toured across all five of the worst infested goat head states some of them more than once, I have never needed to resort to camping on top of thorns. I always have managed to find a thorn free place to camp. I have seen some camps that were badly infested, but always passed them up.
- Goat head thorns make it through tire tread and casings, they made it through my sandals, and I really don't see one extra layer of floor being enough to stop them anyway.