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Stylish Dinosaur
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The REI in my town stopped renting camping gear.
This sucks. I have backpacking gear for 2, but it was great to be able to go rent a giant tent/some comfy pads, and go car camping (or train camping).
Seemed perfect for urban areas...our apartments don't have basements or secure garages where we can store monster tents and excess gear, and people who will go camping less than once a year don't really want to buy even a cheap fair-weather tent.
There seem to be some online rental services where they ship it to you...but that kind of weirds me out.
This sucks. I have backpacking gear for 2, but it was great to be able to go rent a giant tent/some comfy pads, and go car camping (or train camping).
Seemed perfect for urban areas...our apartments don't have basements or secure garages where we can store monster tents and excess gear, and people who will go camping less than once a year don't really want to buy even a cheap fair-weather tent.
There seem to be some online rental services where they ship it to you...but that kind of weirds me out.