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    Member Landmark's Avatar
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    What's Your Solution for "Privacy" in a Public Camping Area?

    This might be a weird question... but I'm just curious - what's the best way to handle "privacy" when you're trying to change clothes during a hammock camping trip?

    I've got the Warbonnet Mamajamba tarp, which provides great protection from two sides, but leaves the other two ends wide open (I realize there are "doors" I can buy for it, but I haven't gotten there yet).

    For those of you in this situation (when you're camping in an area that prohibits "public nudity"), what's your best solution when you're trying to change clothes like this?

    Do you fumble around in your hammock with great difficulty?
    Do you stand under your tarp and pray that nobody is walks by the two open sides?
    Do you stand out in the open and expose yourself to the world?
    Do you just wear the same clothes for the duration of your trip and hope your wicked stench doesn't kill anybody?

    I'm curious to hear how the rest of you handle this dilemma.
    "I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking." - Albert Einstein

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    i ALWAYS use a hammock sock when car camping. i made it wide enuff so i can stand up completley in it and change.

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    Can hang your 3 season yeti at one of the sides, and maybe your top cover on the other side (make shift temp doors)...

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    This is a great reason to carry an opaque shower curtain that you can hang at either end...or both ends....

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    You should spring for the door kit. Gives you privacy and bad weather protection.

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    Standing under the tarp sounds perfectly adequate to me. If someone wants to look into my shelter, it's their own fault if they go blind from what they see!

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    Quote Originally Posted by K0m4 View Post
    Standing under the tarp sounds perfectly adequate to me. If someone wants to look into my shelter, it's their own fault if they go blind from what they see!
    This is how I do it.

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    When I don't use a tarp with doors I just change under my tarp. I change fast enough that it's not a problem and I often times hang stuff at the one opening like a jacket or bag or even my top quilt to air out that covers the opening a little.
    Don't let life get in the way of living.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lamboy View Post
    This is how I do it.
    If people want to stare thats thier problem but the doors are a better solution,, or you could hang a poncho

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    I am always amazed at the feelings that people might be walking by and see something they shouldn't. Maybe it's just me, but when I am going past a campsite I'll look and check out the gear, either to drool or laugh. But to be honest I don't see anything else and never have. My wife is a former costumer, stage dresser. She had complete quick changes down to about 1 minute without special costume rigging. Of that minute not much would constitute a breach of public decency. Behind the tarp.. in and out... zip zap <30 seconds of potential embarrassment and then the angles have to be just right. Stop worrying and just di it.
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