My blog is dedicated to folding trailers (AKA PopUps or PUP’s). Hopefully non-PUP owners will find some of the posts of interest/value.
I’ll cover equipment, modifications, maintenance, camping stories, and of course SPUT’s (Stupid Pop Up Tricks). Please forgive my rants & raves and posts on my camping buddy – my granddaughter.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I try and keep the post short but augment them with pictures from my SmugMug gallery.
Enjoy.
He Ruide
I’ll cover equipment, modifications, maintenance, camping stories, and of course SPUT’s (Stupid Pop Up Tricks). Please forgive my rants & raves and posts on my camping buddy – my granddaughter.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I try and keep the post short but augment them with pictures from my SmugMug gallery.
Enjoy.
He Ruide
Do you use SunGuard while camping/hiking?
I’ve taken her recommendations to heart. For example, fresh fruits / vegetables or self serving buffet lines are off limits. Plus when I go to a restaurant I ask what their last health rating score was… a number that sometimes takes a while for the manager to get. Or I get to read their latest Health Department audit… which trust me, can be frightening.
Anyway one of the things she wanted us to do was limit the exposure to the sun. Most of what she recommended I knew about … for example, putting on lots and lots of sun screen lotion. She also recommended wearing a broad rim hat while camping/hiking. So finally, I had a justification for the purchase of my entire collection of camping hats I’ve been collecting since I stopped acquiring Hard Rock Café baseball hats
However, one of her recommendations caught me off guard so to speak. She didn’t want us to rely only on sun screen lotion but recommended that we wear clothes that were treated to prohibit UV rays from reaching our skin. While she accepted that there are commercially treated shirts and pants she admitted they are expensive. Plus if you are like me and already have a collection of camping clothes - you don’t want to start over.
So her recommendation was to treat your clothes with “SunGuard” by Rit - the clothes dye company. I had not heard of it before and I don’t think it is available in stores but you can purchase it on line. So for a $12 dollars you can buy six packets of Sun Guard and treat your clothes yourself. One treatment will last 20 washings.
For the techies… the active ingredient is TINOSORB® FD produced by Ciba Specialty Chemicals. SunGuard will block 95% of UV rays from getting to your skin. For example, it will boast the UPF protection of a white cotton T-Shirt from UDF 5 to UDF 30. UDF is Ultraviolet protection Factor which is similar to the SPF of sun screen products. This product has the Skin Cancer Foundation’s Seal of Recommendation, is recommended by the Good Housekeeping Institute and some dermatologists.
I plan to treat my camping clothes on my return to Cincinnati. I’m also interested to hear if any one has used this product.
Ruide
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Haven't used that yet - but as someone who goes to the dermatologist twice a year (fair skinned redhead that grew up in the 60's and 70's at the beach every summer), it's on my list.
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