RV Camping Gear Essentials

May 19, 2011, By 2 comments

RV Camping Gear Essentials

When you're packing for your family vacation, every inch counts. With kids and dogs and toys and boots and clothes, what room do you have left for the bare necessities? On your next road trip, be sure to make space to bring the following essentials you really shouldn't leave without. 

Micro-Grills

So after playing packing-Tetris for two hours, you realize there's no space for the grill. And if you're going camping, RV or not, you need a grill.

Micro-grills solve this problem. These fantastic little grills afford you the luxury of grilling just about anywhere, and often are so small that they fit in a glove box or backpack until needed.

A great example is the Grilliput Grill that allows you to pack a stainless steel, rust-proof, dishwasher- safe grill just about anywhere. It features a 9"x10" grilling surface; put it directly over a fire or on charcoal in a Grilliput Compact Firebowl (sold separately).

Rope and the Figure 9 Carabiner

No matter where you go, you have to have rope. It's useful for so many things, such as keeping food off the ground (and away from bears!) and hauling firewood.

But once you tie a knot in your expensive nylon rope, there is little to do but cut the knot out, leaving you with a shorter and less useful length. So you always end up packing too much, and then you have a giant mess to untangle, which means you're cutting knots out of it and eventually are left with a pile of two-inch segments.

Until now. The Figure 9 Carabiner lets you use a length of rope multiple times by simply weaving it through special notches on one end, and allowing the use of a clip on the other. This means that you can use the same piece of rope again and again—no extra rope to untangle and no lengths to cut or throw away.

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Comments (2):

Coleman M. Instead of spending the money on that ridiculous carabiner, one should learn how to tie proper knots. Bowline, half hitch, clove hitch, timber hitch, etc. are all useful knots that perform specific tasks and can be untied with ease. - 05/20/2011
Cheryl M. Like your list, but after living in a teepee for six months when I was 18, it seems you forgot one very important item...a hatchet! What we used to do for firewood (after the pieces on the ground had all been scavenged) was this: tie a fist-sized rock to a long length of rope. Sling the rock so it wraps itself around a low, already dead branch of a tree. Give the rope a sharp tug, and chances are pretty dang good that the branch will break off. Cut the branch into manageable lengths with your hatchet, and voila! Free, ready-to-burn firewood! For cooking every day (and this worked for just about anything), we simply put a metal grate over our firepit and used a couple of cast-iron frying pans. Trust me, even sunfish tastes good cooked this way, and you can still do eggs and bacon or whatever for breakfast. - 05/20/2011

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