Southeastern Preppers Network
State and Regional Boards => North Carolina => Topic started by: Lilburner on January 19, 2018, 03:21:28 PM
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Join your hosts, Survivor Jane, Rick Austin (The Survivalist Gardener), Grannie Pam, and more than 30 of the most knowledgeable preparedness speakers in the world, at a prepper event you will want to attend each and every year.
http://www.preppercamp.com/
460 Orchard Lake Road, Saluda, NC
Sept 28th, 29th & 30th, 2018
Buy Your Deep Discount Tickets NOW!
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8 months away & there's no RV sites w/hookups available, only Tent City (dry). Or local hotels/other campgrounds.
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That's my understanding, yes.
I think if you want a crack at going, 8 months out is the time to do it. They sell out every year.
I looked at going last year probably May timeframe after we moved the SEPN campout to October, and it was sold out.
Even so, it's a lot of camping on back to back weekends for me - same with the two events right after the Spring campout
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If I remember post-apoc author Steven Bird's comments in October, many folks made their reservations for this year on the way out of the last one.
I was hoping to go but I'm not doing the tent thing.
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I thought it was just boondocking, like we do - that you could do a camper, but with no amenities.
I just found this, though
"Reserved RV & Pop-Up sites are available for $45/day, before they are sold out.
(All private camp sites include, water, electric and sewer hook ups.)"
I THINK - kind of half-remembering from last year, the tent-only thing kicks in once the official campsites are gone
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I went to order a ticket and it says the RV campsites ARE gone.
Or did I misunderstand you?
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You and I have clearly followed different paths within the website.
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I just ordered my ticket for the weekend. The campsites are gone, despite what the website says. It was wishful thinking this late in the game. I got a non-smoking room with 2 beds if another woman or a woman and kid would like to split the costs with me (It'd be $60 a night).
Who else is going?!? Any interest in carpooling?
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The commander and I are going to make plans to attend the 2019 event
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I fail at womanhood.
But I come and go on this. Some of it depends on my state of readiness for the campout the following weekend.
Maybe we could do the carpool part at the least.
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It's a week out now. Is anyone else going?
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I kept hoping, then it went to unlikely. Now I have to officially pull the plug on hoping to go. I just can't get away.
There MAY be some people who think they have dips on me the following weekend as well. But those people can suck it.
Let us know all about it!
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We're going Saturday and may stay over until Sunday if it looks worthwhile.
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I don't know why I didn't see your post until now, John Galt. I think I recognized a couple of couples from here, but only seeing people a few times in a couple years makes me not sure. If you're not 4 legged or a little kid, I'm horrible with names and faces.
I had a great weekend!!! I bought a lot of books and took a lot of classes. The classes were only 1 to 1 1/4 hours long, so nothing to make you an expert on anything. It did give me a lot of starting points to go from though. I'll bring the books to the campout this weekend. I don't mind sharing the fiction as long as you pass the books on to someone else after you've read them. I share the DIY books too, but want them back.
There's another campout April 12-14 called Heritage Life Skills VIII. Campers that have been to both said those classes run much longer and you get more hands-on experiences. These classes were almost all butt-numbing classrooms with a speaker in front of you. (bring camp chairs if you go next year) Both are great. There's no way I could have learned such a wide variety of stuff if they had 4 hour classes.
The Heritage Life Skills Campout registration begins February 4, 2019. I'll try to get the right info to the right person to begin a new post for that.
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We went Saturday and caught classes from cold smoking (really amazing how salt preserves) to meal making and bee keeping.
Stayed in the area overnight because "she who must be obeyed" was getting into the classes and wanted to do some more classes on Sunday but it was a downpour the next morning so we headed back home.
I caught the solar presentation since I'm giving a chat at the Cedar Shoals WMA campout just to see how Johnny presented the subject. I plan on a more detailed hands on approach at the campout.
We are going to try cold smoking and a few other things we learned. Defiantly worth going.
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I went to both of those as well on Saturday. That meat was gross! The ride home Sunday afternoon was only a light rain and then I hit a major accident that added 2 hours when I was only 30 miles from home. I'm glad I stayed. I had no intention of taking the Hidden Garden class and it turned out to be my favorite. Rick Austin has a series of books that I'll bring to the campout this Saturday. Basic premise - they made a garden that looks like crap. It's a jungle. It's a chaotic looking masterpiece that most people would walk right by. All the plants are symbiotic with each other and produces 5X the bounty. The best thing, in my opinion, is that it is pesticide free, fertilizer free, weed free (or don't care). It's a plant once for perennials and only add your veggies every year. Virtually maintenance free. I HATE weeding!
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I was very surprised that even after seeing that 1 yr old raw meat preserved in nothing but salt my wife really wants me to build a cold smoker, bulk up on the salt, and give it a try. WalMart has a 25lb sack of salt for sale $3.50.
And if SHTF never happens I can always salt the yard of a guy who still owes me money.
Still, it's nice to see her showing more interest in prepping and she wanted to brave the rain on Sunday more than I did and go to more classes. I had to leave Monday on a 4 day business trip and still had to load up ( a 2-3 hr process) so I was the one who made the call to ride home early Sunday.
Guess I'm going to build a sheet metal cold smoker like that guy built.