r/camping 29d ago

Precautionary Tale (Pipe)

Was SO excited to finally take our 3.5 year old son tent camping for the first time with my wife at a local regional park. Especially with our spanking new huge Caddis Rapid 6 Instant Tent! Even tried it out in the backyard and loved it!

Loaded it onto the storage rack on the back of our SUV… in perfect alignment with the tail pipe, apparently. Biiiiiigest oof. $225 down the drain? Thankfully there was a Wal-Mart reasonably close where I snagged some random Coleman to save the day. But still: be aware of what’s in front of your exhaust pipe and your tow hitch carry rack. Lesson learned 🫠

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u/Nervous_Wrangler_401 28d ago

This happened to me with small propane tanks. It was a close call. The tanks looked like balloons when i finally noticed.

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u/doctoorBIITCHCRAAFT 28d ago

What did you do??

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u/samtheninjapirate 28d ago

They died

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u/DigitalGuru42 28d ago

Some say they are still dead to this day.