To Chair or Not To Chair ?

[mountainm]

this is what you need:
http://www.askari-fishing.co.uk/__W...s/salmo-chair-with-weather-shelter/detail.jsf

 

[Dr Onion]

ROFL!! I like that mountainm!! Makes you look like a Dalek when it's deployed!

Dr O

 

[spandit]

That is awesome, love it! Would help with some of the ugly mugs at the Sussex meet

 

[Whittler Kev]

With a bad back and hips, I take a folding chair to camps but if we have to walk in I take a seat I can hang between two trees or a piece of sea fishing net to hang as a hammock or a seat

 

[wattsy]

i take a chair more often than not i got told by my old scout leader that being uncomfortable is for mugs its done me proud so far

 

[widu13]

If I'm going to a meet, I take a chair. If I am going real schrafting I make do.

 

[ged]

...i,m firmly in the NO CHAIR camp mainly because i feel if , once i,ve put the pack on and set off , a return to the truck for a chair or box of stuff would be "cheating" ...

My thoughts exactly. When I'm at a meet I prefer to get everything in one go. If it can't be carried in one go then it's cheating somehow. Make do or do without. ...

A chair is cheating but a truck isn't? Am I alone in thinking that this makes no sense at all?

FWIW I have one of the National Trust thingies, plus a rucksack with a built-in chair, plus a fabric chair that hangs from the trees, not to mention a couple of the little tripods and a shooting stick. For camping in France and Spain in the last couple of weeks I didn't bother to pack any of them, and despite having taken the fabric one to three Derbyshire meets specifically to try it out I've never managed to. Too busy setting up, cooking, and clearing up!

 

[spandit]

A chair is cheating but a truck isn't? Am I alone in thinking that this makes no sense at all?

Yes, you are alone. Some of us have to drive a certain distance before we can get to the woods

 

[F7144]

If you are driving into a basecamp location take a chair. If I'm on foot I take a 12" x 12" foam mat seat and keep it under the hood of my bergan.

Any fool can rough it.

Luke

 

[cbr6fs]

thats awesome i gotta say. nae much use here in scotland though it would then be a chair with a sail....

Yep with a Scottish wind i can imagine you'd have to phone air traffic control before setting the chair up

this is what you need:
http://www.askari-fishing.co.uk/__W...s/salmo-chair-with-weather-shelter/detail.jsf

I can't help thinking of "boil in the bag" when i imagine that in a Greek summer

 

[Squidders]

I love the tone of the poll...

If I select "My niece got this from Shackletons you know" I basically insult myself leaving only "Make do". Very good.

 

[Ed]

I never take a chair to moot or meets .... I just seem to find empty ones to borrow for a while or get offered one

Ed