{"id":596,"date":"2007-05-18T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T21:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/05\/18\/camping-in-a-remote-area-rent-gear-and-a-satellite-phone\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T02:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T06:56:00","slug":"camping-in-a-remote-area-rent-gear-and-a-satellite-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/05\/18\/camping-in-a-remote-area-rent-gear-and-a-satellite-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping in a remote area? Rent gear and a Satellite phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>This is a long weekend here in Canada.  We call it the Victoria Day Weekend as we honor Queen Victoria&#8217;s Birthday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>This weekend often falls close to May 24th, so we&#8217;ve come to traditionally call this weekend the May 24.  It&#8217;s not this year, but that&#8217;s what we call it. Why?  Well, the May 2 4 is usually one of the first long weekends of the year.  Certainly it&#8217;s often the first long weekend when the weather is nice enough to go up to our cottages or go camping.   The 2 4 part comes in because well, we are Canadian after all and Canadians like their beer.  A case of beer here contains 24 bottles or cans. Hence the May 2 4 weekend.  A time of camping and fun!<\/p>\n<p>Almost all my life I&#8217;ve been one of the people who traditionally either go up to the cottage or go camping on this weekend.  This year we won&#8217;t be doing that, but I&#8217;d love to have made plans to go camping as I just love it.<\/p>\n<p>If we were going camping I think we&#8217;d have to replace some of our gear, or perhaps rent some gear.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy camping but haven&#8217;t been for a while because you don&#8217;t have a tent, backpacks, sleeping bags, cooking equipment or other camping related gear you can always visit Lowergear.com and check out their camping and GPS rentals. You can rent everything you need from Lowergear.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>There&#8217;s actually several benefits to renting camping equipment that I can think of. If you don&#8217;t go camping very often you might not want to buy a bunch of camping gear and have to store it in the off season only to pull it all out once a year or even less often.  This might be especially true if you live in a condo or apartment, or even a small 1920&#8217;s house like ours that doesn&#8217;t have much storage space.<\/p>\n<p>Camping gear can be really expensive and if you aren&#8217;t using it- why buy it when you can rent it.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be awful to buy say $1000 worth of camping gear, store it in a basement or garage and then when you do need to use it find that it&#8217;s been either water damaged or chewed and damaged by mice.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we have most of the camping gear that we&#8217;d ever need &#8211; including a pop up trailer! However, if we were going in a remote area with tents and backpacks it sure would be nice to have GPS gear or even a satellite phone.  That would up the safety factor that much more.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an avid camper and thinking of purchasing a high tech piece of camping equipment, but you aren&#8217;t all that sure that it would suit your needs you could rent the gear from Lowergear.com and basically give it a try before you buy.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Lowergear.com site. 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