Camping Chairs - Helinox Chair One and lookalikes

[Jdsk]

Those sleeping mat chair kits are light and use something you already have, but don't they mean you end up with mud and bits of grass on your sleeping mat? Especially considering a chair (or stool) is most useful when the ground is wet.

Not really something I've ever noticed a problem with in the years (decades!) I've used them.
And if you do get some mud on them they'd be easy enough to wipe clean.

Ditto x2.

Jonathan

[Bmblbzzz]

Those sleeping mat chair kits are light and use something you already have, but don't they mean you end up with mud and bits of grass on your sleeping mat? Especially considering a chair (or stool) is most useful when the ground is wet.

Generally, the mud ends up on the fabric of the chair kit. The mat itself is mostly exposed on the inside, against your back(side).

You've got to be careful with chairs on wet ground too. The legs sink in to the soft ground, and you've got to be careful not to lose the feet when you pull them back out.

Yes, I've seen people losing chair feet. I'm mildly inclined to see a tarp as a do-it-all solution: rain cover, ground sprawler, etc.

[andrew_s]

Those sleeping mat chair kits are light and use something you already have, but don't they mean you end up with mud and bits of grass on your sleeping mat? Especially considering a chair (or stool) is most useful when the ground is wet.

Not really something I've ever noticed a problem with in the years (decades!) I've used them.
And if you do get some mud on them they'd be easy enough to wipe clean.

Pete.

Probably because lounging about outside the tent is a dry and sunny activity, rather than a wet & muddy one.

[Bmblbzzz]

It was certainly a wet and muddy activity this May.

[Toffee]

You've got to be careful with chairs on wet ground too. The legs sink in to the soft ground, and you've got to be careful not to lose the feet when you pull them back out.

Don't I know it, having dug the foot of my chair out of the ground 3 times on our current trip to The Netherlands. Still another week to go

[andrew_s]

It was certainly a wet and muddy activity this May.

but were you lounging about outside the tent?

[Carlton green]

You've got to be careful with chairs on wet ground too. The legs sink in to the soft ground, and you've got to be careful not to lose the feet when you pull them back out.

Don't I know it, having dug the foot of my chair out of the ground 3 times on our current trip to The Netherlands. Still another week to go

I’m not sure that I can usefully comment on this problem. However, when used on ‘soft ground’, some chairs benefit from being placed on (load spreading) castor cups so perhaps something functionally similar might help? Plastic castor cups weigh next to nothing and can be very cheap to buy.

[Bmblbzzz]

It was certainly a wet and muddy activity this May.

but were you lounging about outside the tent?

Yes. When camping, certainly in company, this is what I do. And what everyone I camp with does.

[gloomyandy]

I find the chair kit for my sleeping pad makes camping way more comfortable. I have a (now rather old) Exped mat and the kit works very well. I can even sit in it inside my Terra Nova Voyager tent (which makes hiding from the Scottish Midges a much more bearable experience!).