I have been at OSH when the temps were in the teens and in the 90-90+'s, all
in the same week. We usually pitch the tent in a high spot in Camp
Scholler, on a bigger than the tent ground tarp, then take a tarp that gives
a minimum of a 4' drip ring around the tent and tie it off to stakes. This
guarantees a dry and windstorm proof tent.

Store your clothes either inside a car trunk or in plastic bags as the
humidity spikes int he afternoon.

As for sleeping......after walking in the HOT sun all day, enjoying the
evening festivities, grabbing a shower around 10PM to Midnight, I crawl my
naked butt into sheets placed inside my open sleeping bag (it can get really
cool here too) and don't even roll until that pesky 7AM morning drone flyby
to wake us all up.

If worse comes, let the storms rage (and they will) but we are always high
and dry.

Can't make it this year.... ;-(
Brian
"Ed Sullivan" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:24:42 -0400, Tedstriker
wrote:



For anyone that has actually slept in a tent at OSH, does it cool off
enough at night to sleep comfortably? If it's muggy all night, I might
just blast off and fly my homebuilt somewhere and get an air
conditioned hotel room. My plane is fast, so even if I have to go as
far as Milwalkee, it's no big deal. I just don't want to make
reservations, then have to deal with not being able to make it due to
weather enroute from SC. If I wait around until it's dark, and late,
then find out it's too hot to sleep well, im stuck in misery, misery
misery. Sweating all night.

I slept in a tent in 1991 and it was O.K. if you didn't get in the
bag. We had to go to bed at sundown because the mosquitos come out in
droves. I then got up about midnite or a little later and took a
shower which wasn't crowded at that time. I then went back and lay
down til sunrise and got out and looked at stuff before the crowds
were up. I was camped in the show camping which was right next to the
theatre in the woods. They'd let you park a homebuilt in there then,
but I think it has changed since then.

Ed Sullivan